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A good part of the Republican base Tea Partiers on Medicare seems to have their own problem with drug addiction. One in three Medicare recipients has multiple prescriptions from pain killers. You gotta love Republicans they complain about cuts to Medicare but pull the blindfolds over their eyes to the abuses under Medicare Part D.
I'm pretty sure heroin has always been the drug of choice for white suburbia.
Heroin is cheap compared to cocaine and much more addictive. It's the drug of choice because of the cost. If you like downers that are prescribed by docs and can't get them anymore than heroin is the next best thing.
Heroin is cheap compared to cocaine and much more addictive. It's the drug of choice because of the cost. If you like downers that are prescribed by docs and can't get them anymore than heroin is the next best thing.
If there is one big drug next to heroin that I notice in the suburbs it's the abuse of prescription narcotics such as oxycodone. It makes sense - similar to heroin and could be easier to get for some.
If there is one big drug next to heroin that I notice in the suburbs it's the abuse of prescription narcotics such as oxycodone. It makes sense - similar to heroin and could be easier to get for some.
You are exactly right. Docs prescribe narcotics way too much and people get hooked on them. Personally, I hated them when they prescribed it to me. I threw them out. But I know some like the feeling. When they are cut off from the prescribed drugs they look elsewhere for the same feeling.
I too grew up in a white, working, middle class environment (graduated in 1991). Cigarettes, booze, and pot were the big things. A few dabbled in hallucinogens like acid, and shrooms, but heroin was pretty much non-existent. We always thought it was such a 70s thing.
Being in the 70's I saw the same things you mentioned........heroin wasn't so much the losers drug of choice as PCP was, at least in Northern CA. At least it advanced from glue sniffers.
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