Sid_6.7: China White Flight?

Ha! Nice.

Meth don't fry in the kitchen;
Crack don't burn on the grill.
Took a whole lotta tryin',
Just to get up that heroin into the Chicago suburbs.

namatad: who cares?
dumbasses doing heroin ... LOL
I love that they drive into the city to get their drugs.

bwahahahahahahahah

there is no downside to this. none at all.
In theory, more ODs would lead the white suburban parents to want to decriminalize drugs so that their snowflakes are less at risk of death.
right??
RIGHT???

LOL
/why havent we ended the war on drugs??

Eh around here (Madison, WI) the heroin addicts have a tendency to do the heroin as soon as they get it. This is usually in their car which then leads them to either pass out or O.D. and then randomly crash into things/drive on the bike trails, etc. Link (new window)
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If heroin were legalized today, I would be dead tomorrow.

/srs

1) The real cause of rising heroin usage is the rampant abuse of prescription painkillers. Almost every heroin user I know, originally got hooked on pills, and then turned to heroin for their "need"

2) I've never met a heroin addict that was worth helping. Myself and friends tried to help a lot of people that we really cared about, but it never once worked out. Shut them out of your life and hope they die quickly, its really the best way. *shrug*

Heroin, you say?

Not a problem. You don't even need an IV for it anymore - intranasal NARCAN is just as effective.

Boo Hoo. As long as they're not robbing me to get their drug money, fark'em. And that pretty much goes for any addict.

If they manage to get clean, good for them! But if folks are determined to kill themselves, who are we to stand in their way? Plenty of other people out there more deserving of help and sympathy.

I don't recall, is heroin an upper, a downer, a screamer, or a laugher?.

No glot. Clome Fliday!

Obviously the solution to this problem is to funnel even more money into the war on drugs and to increase the penalties for possession of marijuana.

jaylectricity: When rich kids need to "escape" it has to make you wonder what is wrong with this world.

Rich kids are just as likely to have abusive parents as poor kids.

Oh, I LOVE heroin

/that is all

FTFA: Monday's forum gave parents a chance to ask questions of a panel that also included [...] Amy and Paul Miller, whose 18-year-old daughter, Megan, died of a heroin overdose.

Not, perhaps, the first people I'd think of asking for advice on such matters.

People have done drugs since drugs were available and it seems that by now thee would be a safe and effective way to treat addicts. I've seen a few people that have come off heroin only to go on methadone and still be a mess.

AbbeySomeone: People have done drugs since drugs were available and it seems that by now thee would be a safe and effective way to treat addicts. I've seen a few people that have come off heroin only to go on methadone and still be a mess.

Suboxone with extensive counseling seems to be the most effective treatment. This is from experience.

Gone In 26 Minutes: [files.myopera.com image 413x500]

fark you, Jesus. Quit stealing my smack.

violentsalvation: It will never go away and should not be seen as a problem, but a treatable disease. Decriminalize it and help junkies get HELP without all the needless FDA/DEA restrictions on pharmaceutical replacements. We could actually help people get better and become productive, probably for less money than imprisoning them. For-profit prisons have a problem? fark those faceless companies, they can get into the for-profit rehab business.

You comment made so much sense I almost forgot I was on FARK.

But do you think for-profit rehabs would be any better than for profit prisons? Are there any rehabs that aren't for-profit? Aren't many rehabs run by the same faceless bastards? I went to visit someone in rehab not so long ago and it reminded me visiting the same person when he was in prison. The only difference was they weren't locked in cells at night. The only treatment on offer (other than the initial detox period) was non-stop AA/NA meetings. Is that really treatment? Is that the best we can expect for what rehab costs? I guess it's better than nothing, but I wish we could do better.

I have snorted heroin a couple times. It sucked, felt like I took a bunch of benedryl. Why people would want to get hooked on that crap is beyond me.

One of my good friends got started on pills and now will buy to snortable heroin when he doesn't have pills. Its sad and all, but all the people I have ever met that did heroin are dumbshiats.

I wouldn't say it's a 'problem', Bob.

It feels like being wrapped up obliviously comfortable in your mother's womb floating in amniotic fluid. It is a hard feeling not to get stuck on. Life is full of little pains to escape from. In a first person perspective "The worst pain ever" is extremely varied from person to person. You do this and after it wears off even the smallest pains feel visceral and excruciating, so you could imagine anyone with any serious ailments would be strung out til next Sunday.

That "vaccination" that hasn't quite made it Stateside should help with preventing people from being slaves to the stuff, if it ever breaks through silly barriers.

Echoing other people, the Gateway concept is B.S. , especially with something as tame as Cannabis. Heroin is a horse of a different color.

Rich suburban kids may be naive, but they are just as prone to having parents that are rarely there (parents that work long hours and leave to kids to raise themselves.) It may sound immature, but that is a pain some kids feel the need to escape from. Heroin isn't forgiving, and it surely isn't their friend.

Who is that pitiful creature?
Let's call him Pete Jones. Pete's first troubles were with smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, weren't they Pete?
GET BACK! WE DON'T HAVE ANY CIGARETTES!