The Heroin Epidemic

This stuff is nasty. If you ever know anybody who gets messed up with opiates, intervene.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...02792f854297_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop_b

 

I knew a guy that got really bad off on Oxy, he went crazy. Literally. He believed that his home was bugged, thought his friends were informants. Just unreal shit. It all came crashing down when he made a bet with a friend of mine over the USC-Auburn game, he took Auburn and decided he didn't want to pay, instead he threatened my friend. A Bo Jackson type hack with a pool stick to his head readjusted him real quick.

Dude lost his business, his wife, everything. He was just the tip of the iceberg back then, I swear on everything 80% of the people I met that went to Powell High back in the early to mid 2000's were high as a ****ing kite off of that shit.

 

Yeah, the Oxy problem in the USA will or has lead to a rise in heroin use. I know someone personally that couldn't get any Oxy and had to get heroine to keep from having some serious problems.

How doctors still prescribe that shit is beyond me. Seems the Hippocratic Oath would keep that from happening, but that is just naiveté on my part. Doctors are human and some get into it, I imagine, to be legal drug pushers.

 

Yeah, a friend of mine back in high school played football at Powell around that time. Half of his friends that I met were always messed up. He claimed that there was one of the football boosters that supplied that stuff to a lot of the players.

 

It's was an epidemic. They had an ungodly amount of kids die from 2001-2004. I didn't go to Powell but knew a lot of people that went there and more often than not they had a drug problem. Not a few beers and a blunt kinda drug problem, a snort an 80 problem. Served me well, seeing them act the way they did scared me away from every even considering that shit.

 

Can I say this is because of our new formed views on Marijuana?

 

I was prescribed Oxies for my shoulder surgery, it was the only thing that made it remotely possible to take a 45 minute nap

 

Ridiculous. I've been taking 6 oxy a day for years and I don't even think about heroine.

 

I like your style, Dude

 

Big difference in taking meds for pain and snorting them for recreation.

 

True.

 

Impressive.

 

The reason it prescribed is because it does work well when used appropriately and responsibly. You're proof of that.

 

But a life destroyer when not used correctly.

 

In the 8 months or so of the new gig, the biggest eyeopener has been how friggin prevalent pain med abuse is. Also amazed how many doctors/midlevels are willing to knowingly run pill mills (not mine).

 

It's a slow suicide. We can't ban prescription pain management.

 

If it's done properly, it works........and you piss off a lot of people telling them no.

Too many docs don't do it right.

 

i'm not sure a lot of these doctors are qualified to be prescribing these things.

 

There is a thresshold where you become a pain management clinic and have to have a specialist. Under that, and it's pretty much fair game.

 

my mother has had a lot of pain issues and her general practitioner has her on so much different shit it's scary. finally she goes to a pain specialist and he tells her he's prescribing something non addictive and she tried to stop taking it and literally threw up for 4 days. now we have her going to a pain drug addition specialist to get her off the new stuff. it's been a long process. and frankly I don't even know how much of her pain now is withdrawal or real.