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Old 12-30-2015, 12:04 PM   #31
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I am in the MAJORITY
I hate all pills
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Old 12-30-2015, 01:29 PM   #33
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My wife's aunt and uncle lost their youngest son to an OD just under a year ago. He had been in and out of rehabs for years and it finally seemed to be working. 2 plus years clean, and then he gets a call from an old "friend". He died later that night with his girlfriend trying to break down the bathroom door to save him. Saddest funeral I've ever been to. We were with his parents on Christmas and they're still struggling and partly blaming themselves for what happened.

And for the record, he never smoked pot and wasn't much of a drinker. He got hooked on pain meds after a construction accident when he was in his early 20's.
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. It is an addiction that sadly doesn't discriminate the way you describe.
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I know it does not discriminate from rich or poor, young or old....I know that people take drugs to get rid of unwanted situations or feelings.....the majority of addicts start with over prescribed pain meds from the medical field, other pills come from florida and where ever and sold on the streets.....some marijuana users when the high fades the user may turn to stronger drugs and heroin would B one of them....the gloucester police department has helped 20 or more people get into rehabilitation facilities, not all R from Gloucester, some come from surrouding communities


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The blame lies within......and no place else!
Come on Larry, you know we are living in times that everything is someone else's fault, someone else's job, someone else's problem......
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Old 12-30-2015, 07:44 PM   #37
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And for the record, he never smoked pot and wasn't much of a drinker. He got hooked on pain meds after a construction accident when he was in his early 20's.
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OK FB, I can see that, but what's the route to cocaine and meth?
I can't believe the majority of people just start on meth and cocaine ?

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OK FB, I can see that, but what's the route to cocaine and meth?
I can't believe the majority of people just start on meth and cocaine ?
Smoking weed is not Physicly addictive. It can be mentally. Your body does not writhe in agony craving your next bong hit. (Right dangles? )

Life debilitating addiction like heroin is usually started by mental illness or a physical issue that required pain meds.

I used to smoke a lot when I was a teen and never once felt that I needed the "next step". But others who did had something going on.. Depression, some cases just boredom from the monotony of life or just stupidity and wanting to be the "cool guy".

Marijuana if fully legalized and if fully understood could save civilization. Hemp based plastics and paper could help put more o2 into the atmosphere and take less oil out of the ground to make oil based plastic , plus it's biodegradable.

If everyone just smoked a doobie every night, I can assure you that there would be less violence in this world, let alone other health benefits. The key is to respect it and not abuse it.
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When I was younger I would try anything including Coke or shrooms,even acid. I have never seen meth or heroine and I am glad they were not options when I used bad judgement. My son is a freshman in college and I trust him to make good decisions but I also understand he is curious about things like all kids. Moderation is not a word used commonly in college but when I talk to him about drugs and heroine in particular, I stress good judgement. He shakes his head and asks if I think he wants to die. The word is out via education and the stories everyone has shared regarding the inevitable outcome. Recently we had a young serviceman in town succumb to heroine who thought he was invincible.
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OK FB, I can see that, but what's the route to cocaine and meth?
I can't believe the majority of people just start on meth and cocaine ?
Alcohol leads to bad choices yet its use is somewhat celebrated and for some reason seems to be a drug that many don't see as that much of a problem. If I could have sued the manufacturers who made the alcohol for alot of my bad choices I would be a rich man, and my finger would still work. It was the combination of getting labeled a pothead by the football coach in high school in front of the whole team and alcohol that finally made me try pot.
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My wife has been waitin for this to come on
My sister in law has been battlin it for a few years, in and out of rehab, and we have had her 5 yr old for over a year and a half. Not long ago it seemed to be bad in fall river and new bedford, now its worse everywhere. My mom is an rn in the er in plymouth. she says on a slow nite they have 10 ods they zappin with narcan. A lot of the time its the same people again and again
For the past few months my wife has been on a vigalante crusade since she moved from urgent care to family practice to weed out pill mules. She wont renew opiate scripts until patient takes urine to confirm they r actually takin em instead of just fillin and sellin. She said it is incredible how many people either dont have any in their system or actually have heroin and coke instead
Just out of control everywhere
The hardest part is the family dealin with the destruction to others caused by an addict
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Smoking weed is not Physicly addictive. It can be mentally. Your body does not writhe in agony craving your next bong hit. (Right dangles? )

Life debilitating addiction like heroin is usually started by mental illness or a physical issue that required pain meds.

I used to smoke a lot when I was a teen and never once felt that I needed the "next step". But others who did had something going on.. Depression, some cases just boredom from the monotony of life or just stupidity and wanting to be the "cool guy".

Marijuana if fully legalized and if fully understood could save civilization. Hemp based plastics and paper could help put more o2 into the atmosphere and take less oil out of the ground to make oil based plastic , plus it's biodegradable.

If everyone just smoked a doobie every night, I can assure you that there would be less violence in this world, let alone other health benefits. The key is to respect it and not abuse it.
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I hear you Nebe. It's been mentioned here that people get hooked on Oxy
because they were prescribed it and get addicted. I know some are addiction prone. But I still don't follow a route for others that end up on meth, cocaine and onto heroin because it's cheaper without having used other mind altering drugs like pot before.
It has to start somewhere and I would venture to say most smoked pot along the way to the heavier drug. It only makes sense, I doubt someone just wakes up one morning and say's I think I'll take some
meth today.
More likely they have gotten in with the wrong crowd where within the culture heavier drugs are available. It's a crap shoot.

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If it wasn't due to prescription pills I feel it starts with underage drinking of alcohol. We all went to or knew of many parties where underage excessive drinking took place during our teenage years. Nobody starts with pot before alcohol.
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I find catching a BIG fish to be a mind altering DRUG.

afterwards, I want more and more. I am Hooked for life.

it all started with that first cast....
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with that said....
I thought moving 250 miles North
would get me far enough away from
the reach of Heroin and yet during the first
month of living in "Farm Country" a guy
got busted for it just down the road...
so...there's NO escape

http://www.weather.com/series/crazim...ishermans-line

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with that said....
I thought moving 250 miles North
would get me far enough away from
the reach of Heroin and yet during the first
month of living in "Farm Country" a guy
got busted for it just down the road...
so...there's NO escape

http://www.weather.com/series/crazim...ishermans-line
You got that right, Rav, It's an epidemic wherever you go and it's a bear to
treat. I read somewhere that a recovery rate is something like 30%.

What a waste of life and like Professor M. said he feels sorry for the parents.
It ruins their life too. What a freekin nightmare.

In the end there is nothing like a natural high in appreciation of nature and the
right friends and family around you. Ask a recovered alcoholic if they are enjoying their life more
without the drug and most will say they still get urges to drink but they are enjoying life more and a lot better.

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It is everywhere now a days. When you read the obit section of the newspaper and someone under 40 dies unexpectedly there is a real good chance it was on OD. My bosses neighbors lost both of their sons to OD's.

I found a needle out on block in the parking lot to the north light. It is everywhere. You can see the addicts all over the place, its really sad. I was hooked on Vicodin in my early 20's, my doc refused to refill me anymore after a back injury. I was so pissed but thanked him a few months later. I am glad heroin wasn't around back then. IT surfaced in Michigan a couple years after i moved out here in a big way. A buddy of mine was found in a motel dead of an OD. There is a chance i would have tried it and lord knows what would have happened.

The drug dealers/cartels are not dummies. They know there is a huge demand for the product. They ramp up production and make it cheap and readily available. The consumer is happy to buy even knowing there is a good chance they will die.

I'm glad the Governor is taking this problem seriously. Part of the solution is treatment. I like what they are doing in Gloucester. Obviously what we are doing now isn't working. I'm all open for ideas as i am sure the Governor is.

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I work in the state detox in Bridgewater for the past 20 years the new drugs come in waves when I started it was mostly alcohol abuse with some heroin addicts then we had the big Crack epidemic then the huffing then the benzo's now its gone full circle most of the heroin guys are 18 -35 they are committed 30-90 days and come back 3-20 time most they dont want treatment.. Most didn't start using by accident , most of them its what they do for fun its their life style

And sadly the only reason its such a big deal its affecting Affluent white kids out on the cape.. and else where while Crack was seen as a city issue and no one cared

This is just my historical experience Sadly Time and education will be the only things to put a dent in the problem
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Most didn't start using by accident , most of them its what they do for fun its their life style
that right there says a LOT, these addicts have to take responsibility. It's the only "disease" I know that people choose to have.

Still - we need to also declare an all out war on these kinds of drugs in general, we simply aren't doing enough.
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Some may view this as immoral but as long as narcan becomes more and more available there is a greater chance for the same folks to keep od'in. In the old days u were one and done.
My sister in law has been in and out of rehab in fall river several times. She started on coke then went to heroin when she hit 30. Just woke up one day amd said gee im gonna shoot some heroin. A total waste.good family up bringing. Tufts gradute. 6 figure job as an engineer for government. Lost it all and got knocked up by her POS drug dealer that already had 5 kids with 6 different women.
Rehab is an f'n joke. She has mass health ( of course). Each time only covers 7 day detox and a 14 day residential rehab then its back to the streets and do optional out patient rehab. And she has no car to get to or from outpatient rehab. A joke
i have heard of very few ever kickin heroin, let a lone in 3 weeks.
Next time im drivin her azz to glouscter..:: lashed to the rod holders on The front of my truck
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Junkies are as good as dead. Watched it all happen as a child, teenager, and adult. And still watching it get worse as we are enabling them with narcan. I have seen people shoot up and die since I was a young child. I have lost many friends to death and jail. Once they are on dope they are as good as dead. Sad but true! The doctors aren't helping with the #^&#^&#^&#^& they prescribe to people. It's poison! And a beginning to a death sentence. And this goes back before Oxys to heroin.
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A lot of what I've read in this thread hits close to home. My wife admitted herself to detox for alcohol (lockdown, random urine and blood tests, the whole nine yards) for two weeks, followed by four weeks outpatient. Getting the booze out of the house and substituting O'doules for the real thing when I need a taste of hops and barley was no problem. Right after outpatient ended and on schedule each evening I noticed she'd disappear into the bedroom and I'd smell a scented candle and air freshener and it didn't take long to figure out she was smoking pot (so far, that's the routine so I just monitor and don't say a word). She smoked recreationally but not regularly prior to that and I know she gets it from her niece, who thinks she's earned a doctor of cannabis degree and knows more than the real doctors (again, right now I monitor and keep my mouth shut, but that she listens really pisses me off). I do worry that as she's weaning herself off the drugs prescribed for detox there's the chance she may want something more to fill the void. We'll see. What is more concerning is that when she's obviously "smoked" she doesn't realize it changes her such that she'll bite the head off anyone who doesn't agree with her about something or doesn't say how high when she says jump. Also very obvious she has difficulty focusing on one thing and jumps from task to task often never finishing any. Since I'm currently on hiatus from the work world I have the time to keep an eye on her and find excuses to ride along when she's off from work and needs to run errands (that part is actually making us closer). But it is a bit of a quandary, when you're basically spying on your wife, in limbo just waiting to see if there's a "what next" in my future. Not sure if I ever count on her having it under control or if or when I should confront her, of if I just say "live and let live" and go fishing. But the Cape Heroin show and you guys sure have given me a lot to think about. It's a lovely world we live in!
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Junkies are as good as dead. Watched it all happen as a child, teenager, and adult. And still watching it get worse as we are enabling them with narcan. I have seen people shoot up and die since I was a young child. I have lost many friends to death and jail. Once they are on dope they are as good as dead. Sad but true! The doctors aren't helping with the #^&#^&#^&#^& they prescribe to people. It's poison! And a beginning to a death sentence. And this goes back before Oxys to heroin.
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I have to agree..... a lot of the people I knew as a teenager are gone. Including a close friend who once offered me a chance to try heroin. Broke off our friendship that very day. He's long since passed away.
My niece is in Framingham right now, started with pills, now hooked on heroin. The situation seems hopeless and the fear is she will be using within days of being released. Sadly I don't think she will make it. My wife and I have reached out to help her many times even letting her live with us and keeping a close eye on her, took her fishing with me many times. and tried to show her there is another way to live. She ended up stealing from us and...went on to break into houses and do other things to support her habit.
When valuables started to go missing I defended her......couldn't believe this precious little girl we watched grow up would end up this way.
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Still - we need to also declare an all out war on these kinds of drugs in general, we simply aren't doing enough.
going to war with Mexico....

the poppies producing the substance that makes heroin aren't being
grown in Mexico.... they are just "excellent smugglers"

crystal meth is being produced here and there .
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B.T.W. Ginko Biloba herb reduces the heady part of cannabis
allowing just the body high (relaxation part) to occur

Dietary Changes ... for detox are to eat (drink) wheatgrass as
a source of chlorophyll that's what detox's the body besides activated charcoal. (not abstinence)
problem is chlorophyll is quite strong tasting so you have to
add apple (for sweetness) celery (full of water) and most importantly
carrots to make the chlorophyll taste good USING a JUICER.

LACK of greens in the diet makes one a "FAULT finder"
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some very sad stories here, I too have lost good friends from this horrible epidemic its horrible to see the decline, especially of people that had so much potential.

Jimbo - not telling you how to live your life, but it sounds like you do need to keep a very close eye on your wife to make sure she doesn't go down this road and you would need to speak up if the time comes.
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Sadly, some of the terms expressed in this thread, "hopeless situation" "epidemic" "disease" only seem to be growing. In the mid-70's in high school it was, for me it was more or less just a foreign term for something taboo, touched on in health class. In college in my fraternity house, occasionally someone would "score a nickel or dime bag" (Does anyone even use that phrase means now-a-days). I tried it in college, and found it had little effect on me and the .10 cent beers from the tap were a much better investment on my limited budget. After college a lot of the folks my wife and I were friendly would produce had cigar boxes full of it or other snortable recreants, usually with some quasi-medicinal benefit "...dude, it's cut with some good $#it man," which, upon learning the good $#it was crystalized horse tranquilizers, turned me off even more and cost me some once good friends. Then our kids grew up and practically every week in the police blotter I'd read and still do about one of their friends getting arrested for narcotics possession or distribution, and my kids shrugged it off as nothing more than a minor bust. Now if I ask my kids how so-and-so from high school is doing these days, I'm apt to hear they're in rehab or they died and it doesn't seem to be that upsetting to them. And, as Raven and others have alluded, you (me too, in my situation) can't get even away from it. REO Speedwagon said we gotta roll with the changes; I just don't have it in me.

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