My Brother Was The Last Person You'd Picture With A Needle In His Arm en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:00:34 -0500 Erin Marie Daly, Generation Rx Stevex Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:36:11 -0400 Well big pharma and the wars in afghanistan are the reason all these kids are OD'ing NotSheep Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:59:35 -0400 Congratulations, obviously I don't know you but consider yourself hugged. I have seen Oxy-C's devastating effects on my mother after she was prescribed Oxy after surgery. It was terrible, and very difficult, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone either. NotSheep Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:56:26 -0400 Overdose death is sad and senseless. My deepest sympathies to anyone who has lost family and friends to opiate addiction, I have seen it destroy lives and it is a terrible shame. Now for the real issue, record opium harvests in Afghanistan. It really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that opiate addiction has skyrocketed over the past 13 years, what the hell do you think the USA, Canada, and UK were in Afghanistan for, if you say to help women's rights, or for girls to go to school, I am going to reach through this data line and poke you in the eye. Here is a brief history. It all started when the Taliban refused to deal with the Bush consortium in 1999-2000. After 9/11 when the USA pointed fingers at anyone they wanted to invade the Taliban burned every opium field in Afghanistan and cut off the Wests opium supply. The drug dealing governments couldn't have that so the invasion was on and they promptly went to all the farmers growing food and said, "grow opium, we will fly in food aid". By 2003 the opium production was 10x higher than when the Taliban controlled the opium production. Now what do you do with all the opium? The allies were producing more heroin than every user on the planet could consume, even if they tripled their intake and risked overdose. Enter the pharmaceutical giants and "prescription drug laundering" and they quickly started laundering the opium into prescription medication, Oxy-c, morphine, codeine, etc. While that was happening the health services in the USA, Canada, and the UK sent directives to doctors which read "prescribe more opiates, we have lots and they are cheap". By 2004 the first wave of prescription addiction crashed over the population and with whole communities hooked on prescription opiates, it quickly became very clear to front line workers that there was a real problem. By 2007-08 the health services had started to regulate the prescriptions more closely, and local law enforcement started concentrating more effort on prescription abuse at the same time doctors scaled back their mass drugging. Enter the CIA along with others (Eric Holder) who flooded the streets with cheap heroin, and then all those prescription drug users that could no longer get opiates through their doctors turned to what was available and cheap, namely heroin. Between 2007-2012 heroin use doubled in both the USA and Canada, not sure about the UK (sorry for the research hole). This sharp increase in heroin use was a contrived hegelian dialectic, that was very structured and pre-planned. Now with heroin cheaper than pot or alcohol the addiction and overdose deaths are increasing every day, so what do you do to keep your customers alive? Well you get the federal government to equip law enforcement and medical staff with naloxone hydrochloride. There are approx 30,000 opiate overdoses in the USA a year, with each user consuming about $1200 worth of heroin a month, and approx $500 in prescription opiates, that is $1700 per user, per month. Now if they can keep half alive with Naloxone that means there will be 15,000 users still able to purchase drugs, which means an extra $25,000,000.00 a month, or $306,000,000.00 per year. It is estimated that there are nearly 700,000 heroin users in the USA in 2014, up over 100% from 2007. If users continues to overdose at the current rates there will be 300,000 less users in 10 years. It makes good business sense for the federal government to spend money on Naloxone to try and reduce this number, or else they will eventually run out of customers. There you have it, a readers digest version of the latest round of opium wars. Unfortunately for people the direct result is horrible beyond words, and the whole time the government, pharma companies, health care, and LEO's (war on drugs), makes billions at the expense of our children, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers. If you want to see an end to heroin and opiate abuse stand up and TELL your governments to stop flying it in by the cargo plane. Sources... <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> Corey Gaffney Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:52:39 -0400 As a owner of a funeral home, embalming a member of your own family is unwise and unhealthy. I get wanting to assist and do everything that you can given your understanding of the process, but that same understanding should help you to step back. I can't imagine being in my embalming room when someone of my own family is being prepared. Professionally, it's all wrong. Vserve87 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:13:20 -0400 I guess you jsut truly never know dude. ImStoopid Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:25:45 -0400 In 2005 I started to do Oxycontin as an 18 year old Freshman in college... Every couple or so weeks the amount I would take would increase eventually causing me to do it every day. If I stopped cold turkey I would become sick beyond belief so I was always out looking for my next high. Fortunate for me I came from wealthy family and was able to support my habit without having to resort to Heroin(tried it a few times never injected). After 2 1/2 years of this shit I eventually got the help I needed and went to rehab.. I have been clean from that shit for 7 years.. I wouldn't wish withdraw symptoms on my worst enemy.. It was hell. WhatsItAllAboutAlphie Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:01:30 -0400 Instead of going all to pieces. Couldn't the father have had somebody else embalm his own son? That's going over the top.