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Know anybody with that problem? I have known a couple people. Here in Fl it seems more and more epidemic. Some guy named Ken in the responses to the article says he doesn't think it is as bad as they make it out to be.
He might changed his mind if he found out that his friend, or relative, or daughter, or former girlfriend were addicted and wasting away and or turning to prostitution to get some "blues" from a dealer.
I know a couple past band mates wasting away, a friend's brother, knew a neighbor where I use to live all looking forward to when their "script" gets renewed and turning to other sources to get more in between. I found out a past girlfriend is now prostituting because she got hooked on "roxies" when only a couple years ago when I was with her she wasn't into any of that.
And who is the largest culprit to this?, unscrupulous people in the medical field with access to these drugs.
My friends, my former girlfriend, are not bad people. And it breaks my heart to find this out and that I can't do anything to help them other than give them advise.
I have said I favor legalizing drugs, but what do you do when the doctors get you hooked?
We can't be worrying about legal, synthetic heroin. All our resources need to keep focusing on the ever-dangerous marijuana plant.
So true. My state senator says he's opposed to legalizing marijuana, because cops tell him it's a gateway drug. Never mind Oklahoma has a big problem with people overdosing on pain killers and dying. At least it's a good thing you never see ads on TV hawking pain killers, like you do Viagra.
"Blues" and "Reds" went out w/ the 70s.
The only 'blues' I hear about these days are Viagra, and the only 'reds' I can find are Sudafed, which they won't put out on the drugstore shelves anymore because of the meth labs.
Know anybody with that problem? I have known a couple people. Here in Fl it seems more and more epidemic. Some guy named Ken in the responses to the article says he doesn't think it is as bad as they make it out to be.
He might changed his mind if he found out that his friend, or relative, or daughter, or former girlfriend were addicted and wasting away and or turning to prostitution to get some "blues" from a dealer.
I know a couple past band mates wasting away, a friend's brother, knew a neighbor where I use to live all looking forward to when their "script" gets renewed and turning to other sources to get more in between. I found out a past girlfriend is now prostituting because she got hooked on "roxies" when only a couple years ago when I was with her she wasn't into any of that.
And who is the largest culprit to this?, unscrupulous people in the medical field with access to these drugs.
My friends, my former girlfriend, are not bad people. And it breaks my heart to find this out and that I can't do anything to help them other than give them advise.
I have said I favor legalizing drugs, but what do you do when the doctors get you hooked?
You can claim whomever you want to be the culprit but the user has to take responsibility for their actions if they ever want to break that cycle.
Sure, there are some docs that are nothing but greedy criminals and many wind up losing their license.
However, the stories you are getting from addicts about how they got hooked might not be 100% truthful about how they got hooked, how much they took, where they got it and so forth....because well....they're addicts.
I had a friend make some bad and bizarre choices a year or so ago. We later found out they were illegally taking some ADD medication (I forget which one).....ugh....that's not the doctors fault.
My wife had end-stage bone cancer and I remember the doc saying how the dose she was on would cause liver damage in just a few years but it wouldn't matter in her case. (They said it nicer than that.)
I can only imagine just how fast some people can ruin their organs if they are really heavy-dosing on those painkillers.
Actually the addictions to these meds are one of the reasons why heroine is making a comeback as it is also an opiate and is now more pure and cheaper than ever. Heroine is now big in rural, exurban, and suburban America.
I'm surprised that H is cheaper than it used to be. Back in the 80s and before, there were young women who sold their bodies just because they were hooked on it. H addicts used to be very desperate financially, living in poor conditions, but spending hundreds/day to get their fix.
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