"The DEA recently released some startling statistics in correlation to this nationally rising threat. From 2006 to 2010, the reported incidents of heroin related deaths have risen 45 percent. While reports haven’t been accumulated yet for the most recent years, DEA officials and nation wide police reports warn that the problem has already become substantially larger."
I’ve never met anyone who’s even tried heroin.
I am fortunate I guess, that I know of no one, family or friends or even acquaintances or any even whisper of anyone using heroin.
Pot though is another story. It is rampant here.
To be truthful I think oxy has.
My 20 Something son overdosed last year on that crap. We have spent thousands for him to get well & we drug test weekly. It’s been a tough year.
Beloved?
He loved heroin, that's for sure.
I happened to watch Nobody's Fool (the Paul Newman version). PSH is in it. He wasn't particularly good, either.
It’s ruined the small town I grew up in. Every day there is some sort of crime or arrest that is tied to heroin. Oxy is too expensive and hard to get. Heroin (imo) is a bigger problem.
Actually heroin started rising in popularity in the mid-00s, something about freer and easier travel in and out of Afghanistan and meth’s popularity was winding down. There’s always going to some drug that’s the most popular.
It has directly impacted our family. It’s been hell for several years, but things are finally looking up. It’s becoming more and more predominant, unfortunately. Much easier to obtain and a lot cheaper than opiates.
The raw opium being grown, harvested and processed in the Middle East and the heroin that comes from it are ALL chemical weapons of mass destruction and as far as I’m concerned those “poor farmers” over there should be forced to give it up or grow something else.
It's extremely potent.
And what's the worst part--you can now start off (note I said "start off") snorting it.
This is a very serious threat and if you have a teenager--don't be naive and think it's some very unlikely situation your kid could run into.
My co-worker's 16 year old son in Raleigh, NC was hooked on the stuff.
My brother died a la Philip Seymour at the age of 31 . A close friend in CT got hooked and lost everything he had ( $ , house , cars , etc./..) Last I heard he was homeless amd eating ta soup kitchens .
Hasn’t impacted my home. Won’t, either.
What drug warriors have yet to learn is that there are some people who are going to do self-destructive things, no matter what laws/controls/impediments we put in their way.
These people have a death wish. They’re going to die sooner or later, and they’re choosing to die sooner. After 40+ years of the “war on drugs,” let’s admit that the “war on drugs” isn’t able to be won, and let the dopers be on their way to their early graves, and stop the actual war on civil liberties and common sense.
I hear that it is very easy to smuggle heroin into the U.S. from Mexico. You can put an ounce of heroin in your pocket and walk through customs. I don’t know how much an ounce of heroin sells for, but I bet an ounce is worth a lot more than an ounce of other drugs. I also read that Chapo Guzman’s organization brings in heroin that can be snorted like cocaine. Some people are afraid of needles but they will take it up the nose.
It certainly impacted mine. Everyone here (except me) is now bummed because the next installment of Hunger Games is all messed up.
Idiotic. It hasn’t impacted my home, nor is it likely to. But God is honored in my home, and my children don’t long for drugs to numb their world.
The only time I ever heard of it was over 60 years ago in high school when the blacks from Rodger Young Village, Grifith Park California, were using and selling it.