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Not gonna read all 13 pages but a lot of these addictions began from doctor prescribed drugs.. they switch to heroin because it's cheaper.. I know a few people who actually got prescribed to roxy's and etc.. because of surgery and then they switched to heroin because they couldn't afford the pills anymore that doctors have put them on.
To the other ones who just started heroin.. yea they're just junkies.
Oh addiction is the same no matter how you started.
A big question is, did they get hooked because they were legitimately using the drugs for treating the surgical pain, and directly developed an addiction, or did they enjoy the effect of the opiates, kept using them for that reason after the surgery healed up, and got addicted that way?
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Originally Posted by BrooklynTurk
Not gonna read all 13 pages but a lot of these addictions began from doctor prescribed drugs.. they switch to heroin because it's cheaper.. I know a few people who actually got prescribed to roxy's and etc.. because of surgery and then they switched to heroin because they couldn't afford the pills anymore that doctors have put them on.
To the other ones who just started heroin.. yea they're just junkies.
Why are we excusing people who abuse prescription pills? I have had two surgeries. At no time did I ever think to consume the pain medication beyond when it was actually required for pain. My husband had a major surgery. As soon as his pain wasn't as severe he trashed the pills and took OTC pain medications. The doctor told him that his pain medication is highly addictive and he was taking no chance.
There are people with chronic illness that leaves them in severe pain who require these prescription pills. This is usually not the case for your run of the mill pill popping junkies.
A pill popping junkie, a crack head, cocaine addict are cut from the same cloth and should be treated the same.
A big question is, did they get hooked because they were legitimately using the drugs for treating the surgical pain, and directly developed an addiction, or did they enjoy the effect of the opiates, kept using them for that reason after the surgery healed up, and got addicted that way?
Notice how in the article of where a young white man overdoses, it was mentioned that he had a mother, that she had a job (nurse) that he was in the military, etc. It mentioned he was a loving person to his sister and his friends, and that his mother tried to reach him and could not.
Now mind you Black and Hispanic addicts who overdose, are evil villains who crawled out of the earth who either don't have parents or other relatives, don't have friends, or if they do interact with people they are bad people. The issue is the inconsistency and the hypocrasy along racial lines involved.
This young white man started buying Xanax on the street at age 15, so this isn't a case of him becoming a raving addict because his doctor prescribed it to him. Though on a larger scale, clearly this epidemic was created by the medical industry and this isn't the only drug epidemic that was created by the medical industry.
You're comparing different media though, that's why this is a laughable concept.
The Staten Island Advance is a local paper, addressing local issues (not to well honestly). They serve a specific and limited audience, and as such, will cater to that audience. You guys want to complain about a wider-ranging issue on this topic, then address latger outlets that cover mass media. If CNN is talking about "innocent white boys compared to "black predators", then you have a point. Using the Staten Island Advance as some litmus test of racism is just laughable.
The first one goes to my point. He never had a legitimate medical use for the prescriptions he was abusing. He got them on the black market for recreational use, and got hooked. He was a voluntary addict.
The entirety of the situation in the second link is undetermined (this could be a murder or suicide, no real info yet.)
You're comparing different media though, that's why this is a laughable concept.
The Staten Island Advance is a local paper, addressing local issues (not to well honestly). They serve a specific and limited audience, and as such, will cater to that audience. You guys want to complain about a wider-ranging issue on this topic, then address latger outlets that cover mass media. If CNN is talking about "innocent white boys compared to "black predators", then you have a point. Using the Staten Island Advance as some litmus test of racism is just laughable.
Not really. Considering Giuliani had a huge base of support in Staten Island, the white borough in the city, I don't think the writers would have written such a sympathetic article about a poor person who OD from the housing projects in Staten Island. A lot of care was taken to explain his mother was a nurse, and that he was a former soldier. The writer wanted to build up sympathy for white addicts in Staten Island.
I wonder what was the attitude of the writer on Eric Garner, a man killed by the police in a confrontation over lucys.
Keep in mind the white kid who died had been an addict since he was 15, had gotten kicked out of the military, and quite clearly hadn't worked in awhile. I'm not demonizing him, but all those quotes in the article about how wonderful he was to his sisters and how he always talked to his mother were clearly meant to create sympathy for him and for people like him (white people suffering from opoids). If the Staten Island Advance writes such an article profiling a non white addict, I would stand corrected and admit I am wrong. Please notify me if/when they do so.
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