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Originally Posted by dman72
Drug activity is increasing on LI, all over. I live near Hidden Pond Park in Islip, and there is heavy drug activity going on there...lots of cars coming and going, kids going in and out of the woods. They meet up with drug dealers who are playing handball and go into the woods to make deals. I let SCPD know about it, and there was a Public Safety guy in the park for about a week, but now he's gone and all the thugs and their trashy girlfriends are back. I couldn't believe when I saw a woman drop 3 girls off to hang out there who looked to be about 16 years old. I've seen people nodding off in cars and such. Prescription painkiller abuse is RAMPANT. Check your kids belongings for this stuff. It often leads to heroin abuse as it's a cheaper, quicker version of the same high.
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Prescription painkillers/opiates are the new "in" drug. A few years ago it was cocaine, when I was in high school it was ecstasy. These things seem to go in cycles with marijuana and alcohol always having a strong fanbase amongst the kids. Believe it or not, heroin is actually cheaper, on average, than Oxycontin which provides a similar high. OC retails on the black market for anywhere between $0.50 to $1.00 per milligram, with normal doses anywhere between 80-160mg daily for heavy users. It's a really dangerous thing for these kids to mess with, because opiates carry a severe physical dependance with them and an incredibly painful withdrawal. Cocaine users can develop a strong mental addiction, but there's no comparison. Mixing opiates and alcohol is also incredibly dangerous, as well as opiates and other commonly abused pills like Xanax, muscle relaxers, Adderol, etc....I fear that a lot of kids nowadays have no idea what they're getting themselves into. Prescription drug abuse amongst adults is just as bad, possibly even worse since access to them is as easy as making a doctors appointment. I've worked plenty of jobs where Vicodin and Percocets are passed around like candy on Halloween, by people who would never EVER consider themselves drug users let alone drug abusers.
Sign of the times maybe? Historically, heroin has always seemed to pop up during economically depressed eras.
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