Heroin: The new drug of choice for young white people in the suburbs (salaries, legal)
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For decades, heroin was a drug long-associated with downtrodden impoverished overwhelmingly black populations in squalid inner city districts. In most cities, heroin use declined in the 80's with the advent of crack cocaine. By the late 90's, heroin was no longer as popular as it once was in ghettos from Oakland to Cleveland.
However, in the past half decade or so, heroin use has surged in an unlikely place: suburbia. Since 2007, heroin use has skyrocketed in America. But it is disproportionately effecting one demographic of people. That demographic being middle class to upper class white youth in quiet relatively safe affluent outer ring suburbia. The recent heroin overdose related deaths of Glee star Cory Monteith and Philip Seymour Hoffman in New York City underscore the new face of heroin addiction. The new heroin epidemic has been described as a nearly all caucasian affair. Although a significant percentage of heroin users were always white even back when it was a ghetto drug, the new epidemic of addiction is wholly a suburban white people problem. Approximately, 90% of teen heroin addicts are white. Youth 12 step meetings are filled to the brim with innocent looking white teenage and early 20 something heroin addicts.
In areas like Baltimore, Northern New Jersey, Cincinnati and Chicagoland, heroin use in the suburbs has been described as epidemic. There are dozens of articles detailing how "nice kids" from "nice homes" *cringe* are being hooked on the deadliest of deadly street drugs. The mainstream media seems to be blaming prescription pills as the gateway drug to heroin addiction. Stating that pain pills are the initially the drug of choice of children raised playing soccer in mini mansions. But in recent years, pain pills have become exponentially more expensive. Also, certain pain pills have been reformulated so that they cannot be abused to achieve an opiate high. Being that many pain pills are nearly chemically identical to heroin, switching over to street heroin sold in the inner city is a much more economical choice for someone who is already addicted to opiates. White kids who believe that they will not be effected by the worst negative outcomes of life risk their lives both by conspicuously commuting from the 'burbs to buy heroin in notoriously dangerous largely black inner city neighborhoods as well as using heroin, in itself, which can can cause an overdose death even the first time used.
It makes sense that heroin would become the drug of choice for rich white kids from the 'burbs. Afterall, what average working class joe can afford a $400 a day habit in this wretched economic landscape?! Only someone with rich parents to subsidize such an expensive addiction. Hustling up money for heroin is a full-time job with overtime for dope addicts in big cities across America. Many homeless dope fiends ironically hustle up the annual equivalent of six figure salaries running hacks in stolen cars (informal cab service using your own car), stripping buildings of copper wire and pawning in various junk and valuables in cities like Baltimore. White kids from suburbia are too conspicuous being white in most inner city areas and not street smart enough to become full-time addicts hustling up money in the ghetto streets like their inner city dwelling counterparts, so instead they blow their entire paychecks from part-time jobs and steal thousands of dollars from their well-off parents.
Heroin use has become an epidemic in suburbia because sheltered white children from privileged upbringings do not know they are dancing with death when they abuse heroin and other opiates. Middle class and rich white folks from the suburbs make a huge mistake by not looking at dangerously addictive pain pills and other medications prescribed by doctors as harmful. Inner city youth have learned not to use heroin because they saw how the drug ravaged their elders in the 70's, 80's and early 90's. White kids in suburbia don't grow up seeing dope fiends dead behind dumpsters. Because of that, the spoiled children of suburbia will have to learn heroin is bad the hard way. Also, culturally speaking, it has been statistically proven that white youth from sheltered suburban environments are much more likely to abuse all kinds of drugs minorities would never ever touch.
It has been feasibly argued that heroin has become an epidemic once again because the war overseas in this post 9/11 world has flooded the world with cheap heroin from Afghanistan. Pain pills which are legal as 2% milk and are the gateway drug, you do the math. The CIA allows tons of dope to be shipped here to America every month. Take your blinders off.
Last edited by LunaticVillage; 02-21-2014 at 11:49 AM..
It is becoming a huge problem here in northeast Ohio as well as around the country, with heroin, and their legal cousins prescription opiates, no question. Yet the "Reefer Madness" crowd still wants to hammer on cannabis, and lump it in with nasty substances like heroin.
I do not understand the attraction of dancing with Mr. Brownstone.
I don't either. And it can have deadly consequences, but to each their own I suppose. Part of it has to do with doctors prescribing pain pills like candy. When a person gets hooked, and can no longer obtain those pain pills, they then resort to heroin. Seems that the two (legal opiates and heroin) go hand in hand with this growing epidemic.
For decades, heroin was a drug long-associated with downtrodden impoverished overwhelmingly black populations in squalid inner city districts. In most cities, heroin use declined in the 80's with the advent of crack cocaine. By the late 90's, heroin was no longer as popular as it once was in ghettos from Oakland to Cleveland.
However, in the past half decade or so, heroin use has surged in an unlikely place: suburbia.
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I always associated it with the death of people like Janis Joplin (1970), who didn't meet the "downtrodden impoverished overwhelmingly black populations in squalid inner city districts" criteria.
However, there is nothing "new" about heroin use surging in suburbia. Using just one example, Plano, TX:
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.).
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Originally Posted by Mr. Joshua
I doubt that it is actually "the drug of choice" for young white people in the suburbs.
Last edited by Jasper03; 02-21-2014 at 12:22 PM..
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This has been going on for at least a decade. How it has been flying under the radar this long is a mystery.
