How bad is the drug problem in your area?

The problem is so many people have this backwards idea that providing syringes encourages drug use. Over here you can buy syringes at the pharmacy, comes with alcohol swabs, clean water, a medical waste bottle to dispose the shit in.

Im sure it means a lot of syringes dont end up on the street & a lot of people dont burden the hospitals with avoidable disease.

Sure but drug use does not equate to addiction, its a possibility but not a direct correlation.

Figuring out a way to fix addiction as a broad spectrum is fascinating to think about, from what i understand a lot of addiction is caused by an imbalance of neurotransmitters that was a result from say drug use, trauma, genetics etc. So in a round about way it comes back to drugs, as they would be needed to fix the imbalance. Im all up for another way to balance out neurotransmitters but i cant think of much other than Electroconvulsive/Electromagnetic therapy or something along the lines of neurotherpay which is still in its infancy

And more people die from getting the wrong meds prescribed in the hospitals than all of the above combined. I have hearing loss from a DRY cough. I coughed and blew a bleeding hole in my ear drum. The hospital gave me prescription strength Mucinex. The exact opposite of what I should have been prescribed and caused me to cough and blow out my other eardrum. All of the ENT doctors in the Phoenix area were on Christmas vacation so I sat spinning for 10 days until I could get help. I don't see the sin in self-medicating. I could have done a better job than the hospital did.

75,000 people die from HA STAPH (Hospital acquired) every year. I have neuropathy from MRSA and all I was was given was 7 rounds of antibiotics and lectures about pain meds and left on my own.

We're headed down a nasty chemically paved road from legal and illegal drugs.

You know what gets the job done? Make those druggies feel like the worthless scum that they are and then they medicate more. Soon they just die from it. Problem solved.

You know what gets the job done? Make those druggies feel like the worthless scum that they are and then they medicate more. Soon they just die from it. Problem solved.

And more people die from getting the wrong meds prescribed in the hospitals than all of the above combined. I have hearing loss from a DRY cough. I coughed and blew a bleeding hole in my ear drum. The hospital gave me prescription strength Mucinex. The exact opposite of what I should have been prescribed and caused me to cough and blow out my other eardrum. All of the ENT doctors in the Phoenix area were on Christmas vacation so I sat spinning for 10 days until I could get help. I don't see the sin in self-medicating. I could have done a better job than the hospital did.

75,000 people die from HA STAPH (Hospital acquired) every year. I have neuropathy from MRSA and all I was was given was 7 rounds of antibiotics and lectures about pain meds and left on my own.

We're headed down a nasty chemically paved road from legal and illegal drugs.

Not so bad here. Some locally known junkies in the bigger cities, but controlled by the public health service. Kids generally do lots of sports since their early years so they are off the streets. Mind you, our capital city only has about 300.000 inhabitants....

And more people die from getting the wrong meds prescribed in the hospitals than all of the above combined. I have hearing loss from a DRY cough. I coughed and blew a bleeding hole in my ear drum. The hospital gave me prescription strength Mucinex. The exact opposite of what I should have been prescribed and caused me to cough and blow out my other eardrum. All of the ENT doctors in the Phoenix area were on Christmas vacation so I sat spinning for 10 days until I could get help. I don't see the sin in self-medicating. I could have done a better job than the hospital did.

75,000 people die from HA STAPH (Hospital acquired) every year. I have neuropathy from MRSA and all I was was given was 7 rounds of antibiotics and lectures about pain meds and left on my own.

We're headed down a nasty chemically paved road from legal and illegal drugs.

You know what gets the job done? Make those druggies feel like the worthless scum that they are and then they medicate more. Soon they just die from it. Problem solved.

how about working on your crappy diet...

Ok, not all drug users are addicts. This is true. But, the OP was originally talking about 'drug problems' in differing regions of the world.

My replies went OT at times, but I'm not here to finger-point or blame.

To each their own. So long as you aren't harming anyone else, so be it.

But drug addicts ARE hurting themselves and others. They prioritize their drug use over anything else.

If there were a natural way to fix/absolve/destroy ADDICTION then there would be no such thing as a 'drug problem' anywhere.

Basically, that was the point I was making. I retract any statements that contradict that point.

I only ask because we have had 5 young people OD on heroin here in Eastern NC in the past week.

We are so close to I-95, it's crazy.
The local sheriff was on TV last night and he was saying it's real bad but he has been busting drug dealers left and right.
99% are jigaboos.
No surprise.

I know up in the NE like Maine it's real bad,too.
They say a lot of this shit is coming out of Fla.
Are y'all seeing this where you live?

not true at all.

usage of heroin has been in decline for the last 200 years.

it was more popular back then and used daily medicinally.

and don't forget people taking synthetic heroin on prescription don't have the same problem of having to steal for their fix..

you know why that is, because its legal.

this whole stinking drug mess, making drugs illegal is about making those who use drugs a problem for everyone else.

They just don't want to go through the month long withdrawal. Shitting themselves, throwing up, can't sleep for three weeks... It's like they'd rather do anything than "not feel" the "dope sick" -

There's this new drug called Suboxone (Buprenorphine) - Which I heard works great for getting people off drugs, and for people who can't get off drugs - makes it impossible for them to get high off it.

Re-visited this earlier comment.. this last bit you said.

And you make a good point.

By making the drugs illegal it ends up causing problems for the non-drug users/everyone else.

If drugs were legal...then what? What do you speculate would happen? Any countries where drugs are legal? What are the results?

Very curious about this now...

Yeah i completely agree with you, this is why im studying to become a drug counselor, so i can help these people caus currently there is fuck all out there in terms of support... sorry wasnt trying to come across as argumentative, just trying to have an intelligent discussion. Anyways i think in the next 20 years we will see a lot of progress in the neurotherpay field once/if the pharmaceutical industry loses is strangle hold... They are currently using it to treat childrens ADHD & adults depression. It works by electroencephalogram (EEG) brainwave feedback & pretty much you train your brain with the aid of a computer to function in the "correct" way. Fascinating stuff!

I only ask because we have had 5 young people OD on heroin here in Eastern NC in the past week.

We are so close to I-95, it's crazy.
The local sheriff was on TV last night and he was saying it's real bad but he has been busting drug dealers left and right.
99% are jigaboos.
No surprise.

I know up in the NE like Maine it's real bad,too.
They say a lot of this shit is coming out of Fla.
Are y'all seeing this where you live?

Here in commiefornia they changed meth to a misdemeanor and heroin. That really screws everything up. Meth is everywhere and it's not just getting high. People can stay up for days and hallucinate and that's when bad things happen. Then they rob and steal to get more.

On a national scale I've been researching this recent epidemic and I've found that with the medical industrys new attitude on painkiller prescription drugs being limited now yes they have fully cut back on prescribing them to people as much as they did before. This is a fact. It's a recent fact. It's not afguable. The stats show if you google it. The resulting problem is people compensating the pain killers they no longer are prescribed with heroin. It's a hue epidemic. People are taking the heroin with painkillers and without. Many people who never did heroin before they were prescribed painkillers are now takingvheroin. Due to our being in Afghanistan heroin is widely available. It's very cheap. Cheaper then weed here in Cali. Meth is extremely cheap and no liner a real crime and get this it's now 90% pure. This really is a problem. It's in the Midwest, the east coast wherever there is a Mexican there is meth. Sad but that's what Mexicans do. They steal the fertilizer in the farm fields of Iowa one of the 1000 gallon tanks just pull up and steal it. i see Idaho, Iowa, all kinds of Midwest license plates here in San Diego at the bean dogs houses.

At my ER we get the FLAKA, just picture daffy duck going coo coo. The other comorbity with the junkie population is they come with hep c , HIV or both.

Additionally, Central Tennessee and Central Kentucky have seen an exponential increase in Suboxone precriptions being prescribed to opioid dependent patients. What are your thoughts on Suboxone, GLP?

I'm not sure what to think of it at this point, I don't have enough input from anyone on it to form an opinion yet.

Yeah i completely agree with you, this is why im studying to become a drug counselor, so i can help these people caus currently there is fuck all out there in terms of support... sorry wasnt trying to come across as argumentative, just trying to have an intelligent discussion. Anyways i think in the next 20 years we will see a lot of progress in the neurotherpay field once/if the pharmaceutical industry loses is strangle hold... They are currently using it to treat childrens ADHD & adults depression. It works by electroencephalogram (EEG) brainwave feedback & pretty much you train your brain with the aid of a computer to function in the "correct" way. Fascinating stuff!