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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.
It often starts with pills. Opiates create such a strong addiction because people so easily develop a physical dependence, so when one tries to stop they are faced with tremendously difficult physical symptoms, as well as emotional turmoil. People often get started on pills, but once the dependence happens they end up on heroin because it becomes easier to get.
Most drugs of abuse can be used occasionally and stopped pretty easily. Drugs like cocaine, meth, ecstasy, and various other substances can be abused for "fun" and then stopped, a user might feel like crap for a day or two, but still able to function. Stopping opiates after even a short period of abuse means being seriously SICK, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, sweating, chills, terrible flu like symptoms, as well as terrible depression that can last over a week.
Thanks. We were white people from the suburbs, and my brother was using heroin intravenously in the 1980s. He kicked it after a year and a half, but he picked up Hep C, which destroyed his liver over the next couple of decades. He died eight years ago Monday.
Not new at all. I think some of the younger set see it as new because in the 80s and 90s, coke use was more prevalent than heroin among middle-class suburbanites. But now heroin's cheap and can be snorted, so it's gained popularity.
Thanks. We were white people from the suburbs, and my brother was using heroin intravenously in the 1980s. He kicked it after a year and a half, but he picked up Hep C, which destroyed his liver over the next couple of decades. He died eight years ago Monday.
Not new at all. I think some of the younger set see it as new because in the 80s and 90s, coke use was more prevalent than heroin among middle-class suburbanites. But now heroin's cheap and can be snorted, so it's gained popularity.
i dont touch pills period. i know once im diagnosed with something ill be on them for life. i have an addictive personality.
UMMM, people of all races have been doing drugs, including heroin, for a very, very long time.
This is not new or news.
Once again, I said it's a new trend that heroin addiction has become a nearly all white phenomena. Blacks in the inner city were the primary users of heroin in previous decades, that is an established fact.
White people are always late and take over black urban cultural phenomena years after these things have gone out of style in the black community. The majority of Wu-Tang fans were black 20 years ago. Go to a Wu-Tang concert today and everybody there is white except the Wu. Same with gentrification. No sane white person wanted to live in the hood 20 years ago. Black people have been moving out of the hood for a better life in suburbia. During the last 15 years, white yuppies and hipsters have moved to the hood in droves because "things are more real" there. Suburban white people are always late on everything.
Not at first. It's the pills that are the choice but when you can't get them then you turn to heroin. Suburban white people love their pills. It allows them to be a legal drug-addict while still looking down their noses and denying that they have anything in common with the dirty brown/black urban drug addicts.
The problem is that the pills are getting kind of tough to come by at this point so now they have to see the dopeman just like an ordinary junkie.
I've taken the health histories of many fine upstanding white citizens of the U.S.A who say stuff like: I take 30mg of Oxycontin 2xdaily for my back pain, 2mg of Xanax 3times daily for my anxiety, and 10mg of Ambien at night to help me sleep. I also have the occassional (means multiple and daily) drink and some pot every once and a while (yeah right let them stay in the hospital for 2 days and they will go into DTs.).
Oh I see where you are coming from, a desire to look down your nose at the dirty suburban white folks.
Heroin is not the drug of choice for young white people in the suburbs. Weed is.
I'm pretty sure heroin has always been the drug of choice for white suburbia.
I'm as white and middle class as they come and I never knew anyone who used this crap growing up. Cocaine on the other hand...
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You wouldn't know anyway. After all, you're the one who on another thread about drugs more or less downplayed the severity of the drug demand in this country. I mean, you actually tried to sell the idea that Vancouver had a worse drug problem than Boston.
You really don't know squat about Vancouver, do you? The city had to open a "safe injection site" because the HIV infection rate was the highest in North America due to the junkies there sharing dirty needles. I can't say I've ever heard of such a problem out there in Beantown.
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Not at first. It's the pills that are the choice but when you can't get them then you turn to heroin. Suburban white people love their pills. It allows them to be a legal drug-addict while still looking down their noses and denying that they have anything in common with the dirty brown/black urban drug addicts.
You wouldn't know anyway. After all, you're the one who on another thread about drugs more or less downplayed the severity of the drug demand in this country. I mean, you actually tried to sell the idea that Vancouver had a worse drug problem than Boston.
I didn't downplay the severity of demand in this country, I merely asked you to prove that the US was numero uno in the drug use dept. and you either couldn't or wouldn't do it. I also did not say that Vancouver had a worse drug problem than Boston.
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Your fingers are in your ears and your head is buried deep in the sand. You don't WANT to know how bad it is.
Unless we're talking about young black or Hispanic kids...then you'd know ALL the stats like Rainman.
LOL, I don't even think heroin is the drug of choice for blacks and Hispanics.
I'm as white and middle class as they come and I never knew anyone who used this crap growing up. Cocaine on the other hand...
You really don't know squat about Vancouver, do you? The city had to open a "safe injection site" because the HIV infection rate was the highest in North America due to the junkies there sharing dirty needles. I can't say I've ever heard of such a problem out there in Beantown.
...and another racist makes the killfile.
These people want to believe this crap Annuvin.
Is there a problem? Absolutely, but I know quite a few young white suburban kids and to them, heroin is very much a fringe drug.
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