Posted on May 12, 2017
Listen Now: Communities Key To Fighting Opioid Crisis, HHS Secretary Says
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Druggies, potheads and drunks haunt my Wife's family. My 20 and 19 year old step- daughters are druggie high school dropouts affected by the opiod crisis.
Listen Now: Communities Key To Fighting Opioid Crisis, HHS Secretary Says
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Sounds Like another "States Rights" Argument. Or More Correctly Passing the Buck on the Part of Secretary. "Nothing I Can Do About It" I will agree that the Community is Better Suited to deal with the Problem but that doesn't get the Federal and State Govt's Off the Hook. Their Lack of Management and Supervision of the Drug Companies that Caused this Nightmare means they bare some of the Responsibility.
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I understand opioid addiction is a problem, but I hope the efforts to do something about it don't get so zealous that they make it too difficult for people who legitimately need the medication to get it.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - I do not think that legalization wil increase the burden on those communities but lessen it,
And as a cold hard pragmatic netter would you rather have a junkie stealing to feed a five dollar a day habit or a five hundred dollar a day habit, Legal opiates are invincibly cheap and without the cost ultra-strict legal controls would be cheaper.
And as a cold hard pragmatic netter would you rather have a junkie stealing to feed a five dollar a day habit or a five hundred dollar a day habit, Legal opiates are invincibly cheap and without the cost ultra-strict legal controls would be cheaper.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr - I know we are in catch-22. We can have A-10 warthogs destroy all the cartel submersibles carrying tons of drugs to our shores. We can take all our SF community out of the middle east and put them in Mexico, Central and South America to destroy the cartels and put a Carrier Strike Group off of Baja or in the Carbibbean and it won't stop. I know its the druggies and social drug users in Canada and the USA that are making the demand. I realize that. It is an epidemic here as well in Canada. Fentanlyl deaths are also high. I just am vehemently against throwing in the towel. I suspect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a recreational pot user. Pot is not for teens. It f%ucked up two of my step daughters. They are lazy and unmotivated now. Both of them have fried their brains on other drugs and can't get up in the morning on their own. If these kids were 40 and had PTSD from rape or cancer pain requiring it to mitigate the chemo that would be one thing. I have a mother in law who is a pothead and she 'smokes up' (Canada term for lighting up) all the time. Pot is not a friend on the Indian Reserve. Tobacco smoking is also prevalent at sweats and other ceremonies but that will never go away since giving tobacco is part of the offering. Legalizing it is a joke because I already see the illegal use and how it messes up kids. Can you imagine how it would be for the offspring of these druggies? We already have a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome problem. I have a half-Brother in law that is FAS but he actually does better than my two step daughters. He is a simpleton but he does his job. FAS people need to be told things. It is sad that legalization is gaining momentum hoping the problem will go away. I am on the front line dealing with it now. Its horrible. Begging teens who won't work, won't finish school, start but don't complete rehab and who drag their feet to get a mental health assessment. They don't live with us anymore. We are no longer enablers hoping they will finish continuation school or rehab. Their life is being drifters or living off public assistance.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Is fighting a war, where your own weapons help the enemy and harm your own nation really a wise thing to do?
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