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Post by Forever Sunshine on Jun 7, 2012 11:05:21 GMT -5
LANCASTER, Ohio -- Holly Yates started using painkillers in the ninth grade, at parties and hanging out with friends. The pills were everywhere, easy to get and cheap. By the time she was 18, she was abusing oxycodone, Percocet and other pills every day.
Then they stopped being enough.
“My cousin, she was into heroin and I started hanging out with her,” said Yates, a hazel-eyed 20-year-old. “She told me about it, and I was like, ‘I want to try it.’ The first time that I shot it up, it was like, ‘Where has this been all my life?’”
Experts say Yates and others in this town of about 38,000 southeast of Columbus are on the leading edge of a frightening new drug abuse trend – one that is ironically being fueled by a national crackdown on prescription painkillers. While new regulations and law enforcement efforts have significantly reduced the supply of these drugs, they say, those efforts have inadvertently driven many users to another type of opiate that is cheap, powerful and perhaps even more destructive – heroin.
openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/07/12091096-crackdown-on-painkiller-abuse-fuels-new-wave-of-heroin-addiction?lite
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 7, 2012 12:39:43 GMT -5
It's probably true, but what do we do, continue to hand out pain pills like candy?
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Jun 7, 2012 12:55:13 GMT -5
Of course not. But, I don't see where there's a lot that can be done. Unfortunately, I don't see this or any other country becoming drug free . . . ever.
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 7, 2012 14:06:28 GMT -5
Of course not. But, I don't see where there's a lot that can be done. Unfortunately, I don't see this or any other country becoming drug free . . . ever. Not until we figure out why so many feel the need to mentally escape. Maybe Tosh can tell us. ;D |
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Post by steff on Jun 7, 2012 14:07:56 GMT -5
Of course not. But, I don't see where there's a lot that can be done. Unfortunately, I don't see this or any other country becoming drug free . . . ever. Not until we figure out why so many feel the need to mentally escape. Maybe Tosh can tell us. ;D
wonder why so many drinkers need to get drunk to escape too....but it's "legal" so it's overlooked & excused. |
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 7, 2012 14:43:13 GMT -5
MADD might disagree with you on that.
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Post by steff on Jun 7, 2012 14:44:31 GMT -5
You brought up the need to "mentally escape" so what about drinkers? They come home and throw back a few beers or some wine. Other than the legal aspect, how is that any different than the typical pot smoker?
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Jun 7, 2012 17:36:38 GMT -5
I don't get the whole need to mentally escape.  Life is pretty damn good and it's surely a beautiful world. Why escape it. It's all gonna be there when ya crash back to reality.
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 7, 2012 18:23:00 GMT -5
I don't get the whole need to mentally escape. Life is pretty damn good and it's surely a beautiful world. Why escape it. It's all gonna be there when ya crash back to reality. I could never understand a need to escape either. I have always been so high on life, I can't contain myself. ;D Must be the Serotonin I smoke. |
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 7, 2012 18:36:34 GMT -5
You brought up the need to "mentally escape" so what about drinkers? They come home and throw back a few beers or some wine. Other than the legal aspect, how is that any different than the typical pot smoker? No difference. What's your point? |
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Post by steff on Jun 7, 2012 18:36:46 GMT -5
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Post by gavinsnanna on Jun 7, 2012 19:57:51 GMT -5
Abusing drugs and alcohol, one is just a dumb as the other.  |
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Post by steff on Jun 7, 2012 20:02:10 GMT -5
what qualifies as "abuse"? more than 1 beer and more than 1 joint?
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Post by gavinsnanna on Jun 7, 2012 20:03:12 GMT -5
Abuse being that it rules your life, or you are hooked on it.. IMO.. that's abuse.
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Post by steff on Jun 7, 2012 20:05:19 GMT -5
Abuse being that it rules your life, or you are hooked on it.. IMO.. that's abuse.
and that is speculative....recreational use is just that, recreational use.... |
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Post by gavinsnanna on Jun 7, 2012 20:19:03 GMT -5
I didn't say anything about recreational use.. I said abuse.
Abuse being that you are controlled by it.. your thoughts are wrapped around it.. you are out of control..you..your every day depends on it.. you think about it all the time.. you can't wait for that drink or that high.. these things being abuse.
such as an alcoholic or drug addict
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Post by sunshine on Jun 11, 2012 17:56:42 GMT -5
I don't get the whole need to mentally escape. Life is pretty damn good and it's surely a beautiful world. Why escape it. It's all gonna be there when ya crash back to reality. Sometimes after a long stressful day at work you just want to come home and relax with a nice cold one and forget the day.  |
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Post by fritz the cat on Jun 11, 2012 18:51:00 GMT -5
Like religion?
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Life is pretty damn good and it's surely a beautiful world. Why escape it. It's all gonna be there when ya crash back to reality. 
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