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ebrities are any indication, look out. Most don’t know that the opiate drugs, heroin and oxycontin are virtually identical and that opiates are being abused in the form of more than two dozen other prescription opiate in America. Rush Limbaugh ♦ Michael Jackson ♦ DJ AM ♦ Heath Ledger are just the lastest recent heavy hitting opiate addicts that have fallen victim. Limbaugh is still with us showing that addiction can hit every corner of society.
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January 8, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Lisa Carp
What isn’t said here, is that our young people that don’t have the money to continue to buy prescription opiates (which is awful enough) on the street change over to heroin, because it is a cheaper high for them. Now they are exposed to dirty needles, sharing needles (and the risk associated with that), heroine that is cut with other things (often lethal), and if all that isn’t enough, they are now addicts of something that is NOT accepted by society and they are likely to end up in jail or dead. Prescription drugs has become the current society’s cocaine. Because wealthy, upper middle class, celebrity types used cocaine it was not considered “that bad.” While those that couldn’t afford that, ended up addicted to “crack.” Don’t get me wrong, all drug addiction is horrendous and horrible, and more needs to be done to stop this influx of opiates into our country and into our society.
January 8, 2010 at 6:21 pm
dadonfire
There is no doubt about what your saying. lt is a sad reality that many have seen as a personal reality with their loved ones.
January 8, 2010 at 6:48 pm
tom@recoveryhelpdesk.com
People do often switch to heroin for financial reasons. But they also switch to injecting for economic reasons. At some point, a person’s tolerance gets high enough that they can’t afford to get high snorting and inject because they get a bigger bang for the buck. And not that people don’t inject oxycontin and other opiate pills…injecting pills is very common.
Don’t you hate it when the media uses catchy phrases like “hillbilly heroin” to brand and hype a medication that already has a name. It helps them attract eyeballs so they can sell advertising, but it doesn’t set the stage for a calm public conversation about how to constructively address a serious issue.
January 8, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Barbara
Great post and comments, I agree with everything said here. My son used heroin cause it was much easier to get, less expensive and easier to inject. It kills me that people don’t know what Oxycontin is! If it were called “heroin in tablet form” I’m sure more people would be outraged that so many kids are using it. Why even make this strong of drug available outside of a hospital? Oh never mind – its all about the money. I always forget that those rich companies who have not had an addicted child don’t understand that angle. The rich get richer, while our youth get addicted and devastate lives…and/or die.
January 10, 2010 at 2:12 pm
keith
The Waismann Method of detoxification he did in that video is like 20k . its supposed to be painless but you still have the post acute withdrawls to deal with . I’d rather deal with 100 detoxes than the paws…and like other treatments it has its success rate too. Its low also. Its whats known in the streets as a 20 thousand dollar tolerance lower-er.