The study found that the number of psychostimulant-related overdoses increased from 5,526 to 15,489, a roughly 180% jump, between 2015 and 2019. The number of people who said they used methamphetamine increased 43% over the same years.
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Darwinian selection in action. Let them OD and die. No loss to society.
ReplyDeleteHell give them more, all they want.
ReplyDeletePack there sinus’s!
Go back to selling it with known doses and pure ingredients in drug stores, no permission slip needed. The war on the American people AKA the war on (some) drugs has been a failure and is unconstitutional on it's face.
ReplyDeleteI think it is awesome that we have so many volunteers saving the planet by removing themselves.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats???????
I am amazed at the care for their common man found here. While some of these people are just plain old junkies, on their own accord, did it ever occur to anyone that they are victims of the governments war on some drugs? It could be me, if I didn't have a strong wife, to help me and watch me.
ReplyDeleteI am a life long sufferer of pain, both from a broken back, at the age of 20, from a bad car wreck, and also from migraine headaches, both from my family and also at least 5 significant concussions. Due to that, I often had to use either narcotics in order to keep working, at a hard and heavy job, or as was often the case with migraines, with a very strong narcotic cocktail that included things to stop the vomiting and lower my Blood Pressure, which often climbs during a migraine.
A few years ago, the DEA changed the rules by which the narcotics could be used, and as I was discussing it with the doctor at the medicenter I went to when I needed to get an injection. And we both agreed that it was going to put a lot of normal everyday pain patients on the streets looking for street drugs, with many of them dying, due to their not understanding how different street drugs are from doctor monitored and dispensed narcotics from a controlled setting are.
And that is what happened. I heard of 2 "regulars" from the medicenter dying due to OD's, and I had a friend's wife get into crack cocaine, and loose her job at an auto parts place as manager, due to embezzlement. A woman who no one would ever think would be involved in drugs, due to being cut off cold turkey from her narcotics that were helping keep her in check from her daily migraines, she felt forced to seek relief from the only place she could find. Is it right? No, not really. Is it understandable? Certainly, from where I am sitting, I can understand the reason for her doing what she did. And since she got caught stealing, she paid the price.
For anyone who either has, or had, suffered chronic pain, and I mean, the kind that makes it so you are unable to work, even if you want to, you might be able to understand the stigma, the judgement, and the looks behind your back, like you are somehow a slacker, when you cannot do the kinds of work that once were a simple 16 hour day, then home to play with your kids, and a romp in the hay with the wife, 3-4 hours of sleep, and off again to do it the next day. Now, no matter what kind of pain you have, it is all you can do to get out of bed, yet alone get into the car and drive to work, and then to even think about 8 hours of pouring steel, or lifting the weight you did when young, not even considering 16 hours. I once picked up 300 pounds from a tub and put it onto a scale in another tub. Things like that when we are young, add up to the pain when we are old.
I am sorry to go off on this one, but I had an appointment with a new doctor today, and we discussed narcotics. I was totally honest with her, about narcotics use and my past experiences with them, and we now have an understanding as to what she expects of me, and she understands that unless I really need them, I won't ask for them. There is a list, for all but one state, I think Missouri, that uses this list, with both doctors and pharmacists able to get it, to determine if they think that the patient is either too dependent on opioids, or doctor or pharmacy shopping, to get extra prescribers of opioids.
It should be noted that this system is called Narxcare and it uses a proprietary algorithm to come up with a 3 digit number. Here is a link if you want to find out more about this software that doesn't allow anyone to know how it actually comes up with it's point system.
https://www.thedoctorpatientforum.com/resources/faqs/290-what-is-narxcare
Man, I feel you. Chronic pain is criminally under treated in the USA. Most of these drug warriors would suck start a 12guage if they had do deal with real pain under the laws they enforce. I have not had a pain free day in over 20 years due to my MS. My wife in the nursing home is in constant pain that they refuse to treat.
DeleteThe system is broken but it serves to give the state and it's minions more power and money so it won't be fixed any time soon. The War on (some) Drugs has cost us all freedom and our liberty. You can lose your 4th Amendment rights if a trained dog sits on command for a cop. Even though studies of the drug dogs have shown them to be wrong 50-80% of the time. Think about that, at their best drug dogs are no better than a coin flip for you to lose your protections from unreasonable searches.
I'm just perplexed as to how we can have a meth and an obesity epidemic running side by side.
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I know they are counting them all as covid deaths...
ReplyDeleteAnd where are the chemicals the Mex Cartels use to make meth come from? Communist China.
ReplyDeleteWho is supplying the same Mex Cartels with pure fentanyl and other drugs? Communist China.
Who is in charge of the factories and shippers who send the precursor chemicals and drugs to the Mex Cartels? Either People's Liberation Army generals, or various Communist Party members.
Yet the Communist Party is death on any illegal drug use in Communist China.
So, is Communist China using the Mex Cartels to wage an unconventional war against the United States?
According to Ed Calderon at Ed's manifesto thats exactly what is happening.
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