Posted on 08/25/2016 6:23:30 AM PDT by C19fan
The American heroin epidemic has become more dangerous, as reports of heroin laced with carfentanil are being reported throughout the country.
Carfentanil is the most potent opioid used commercially, 10,000 times stronger than morphine. It is a version or analogue of fentanyl, the painkiller that most recently made headlines with its role in the death of pop star Prince.
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That will pretty fix itself, unfortunately. A friend lost her daughter to this stuff
Having seen elephants...up close...in East Africa all I can say is it must take something akin to a nuclear bomb to put *them* to sleep.
Legalize it. The sellers and manufacturers get sued out of existence and the black market returns.
That interesting that you mentioned Ketamine. I have some horrible issues with neuropathy.
There is a new procedure called a Ketamine infusion that is showing great promise it is supposed to “reset the nerves” to stop the pain for long term..
Now as an uncontrolled, junky drug, it is abused vastly. Very desirable by scumbags.
I can see that happening, but I can also see the government losing about 90% of the reasons for snooping into our finances and eliminating “civil forfeiture” laws, too.
The addicts can be found binging on bags of peanuts.
If you want to see this stuff disappear, use it to administer the death penalty (has it’s own tranquilizer mixed right in).
Big Pharma is currently denying states lethal injections. Tell them it is for ‘assisted suicide’ and they’ll be cool with it.
I take it that many at that point are just trying to numb themselves and then try not to get sick with withdrawal. I think many got priced out of their opioid/benzo pill habit or can’t get a legit perscription for their habit. So they turn to heroin, it’s cheaper than pills on the street but the potency isn’t standard. So the cartels saw a business opportunity and flooded the market with heroin from poppy fields in Mexico. The fentanyl they cut it with is supposedly more addicting and they can lessen their exposure by having less poppy fields and poppy harvesters because they can just make it in a lab.
I think the rise in the suicide rate of middle aged white women over the last 15 years has a lot to do with the pill/heroin epidemic.
Freegads
I've also have a friend who was a nurse at a State-run rehabilitation hospital. Many of the users come through several times (its an option for a judge instead of prison). She doesn't work there any longer, saying how taxing it is dealing with "broken people" every day. I asked how many, in her estimation, became totally clean. The answer - I don't know, VERY few. For most, the options were simply prison, or death.
“So, how does this stuff compare to PCP (horse tranquiziers)?”
First you need to understand what PCP is: It’s NOT a ‘tranquilizer’ in the normal sense...
When I think of a tranquilizer I think of an effect similar to nap time...
PCP is just the opposite. It makes you SO very hyper that you literally ‘shut down.’
Notice that elephants, lions and the like do not close their eyes on PCP. In fact, I believe that if a normal tranquilizer is used on a large mammal like an elephant they could die of suffocation from their own weight.
Now that you know this, think of that convicted felon who led the LA police on a high speed chase at over 120 MPH and refused to be arrested. He was on PCP. I believe there was a large riot after the police were acquitted. Rodney King. At least he’s deceased now...
that’s not nice to call me I only tried it once when I was a kid :) I have read about that for years now, the treatment you are talking about. I have post-stroke pain syndrome and have thought about it in the past.
But libertarian drug advocates say there is nothing wrong with this. They say YOU are the problem.
That’s also quite judgmental :)
I like leaving God to decide who’s a scumbag and who’s not :)
They will not give up that power because there will still be drugs sold illegally. There is a massive black market on cigarettes.
Massachusetts raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 when I was 18. The solution was to drive 40 miles one way to a neighboring state and visit a bar and then drive 40 miles back home after drinking. We had the same issue. Lots of drunk 18 year olds trying to drive home after the bars closed.
I would be okay with that..as long as someone using street drugs were willing to sign a medical waiver stating they will not get, nor will the government pay for, their medical help.
Well, people tend to be larger nowadays...
I agree. It's a terrible life being on pills to get the semblance of the active life I used to live before my back fell apart.
My Dr has prescribed Naloxone to every patient in his office for the purpose of saving life's of od victims. I have 4 epi- pen type devises in my medicine chest.
But I must emphasize. I don't play around with meds. I love my husband and life too much, I don't want to die.
Don’t lecture me. I have a meth addict pos brother who put my parents through hell.
I have a right to call people like him scumbags.
Exactly, Heroin is cheap and available. It is the latest greatest danger to our community. I get so tried of the posters calling for it to be legal. They know nothing about addiction and how deadly this is becoming. They will shut their pie holes once they lose their child to an overdose.
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