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From Dreamland to Nightmareland

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Posted By: earlybird, 11/3/2021 10:58:04 AM

With the CDC estimating last month that drug overdose deaths rose over 30 percent in the first twelve months of the pandemic to nearly 100,000, Sam Quinones’ outstanding new sequel to his award-winning 2015 book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic is definitely timely. Quinones’ The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth brings us up to date on the disastrous drug developments of the past half-dozen years.(snip)Fentanyl is so cheap that drug dealers have taken to sprinkling it into most of the other drugs they sell,

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This book could save a life. Even Sailer’s article has life-saving information that I was not aware of. We have heard of George Floyd’s death from heart failure due to his having ingested a combination of drugs that included fentanyl. He surely didn’t know what the cheap fentanyl could do. And young people certainly don’t, nor would they be aware of how little it would take to kill them. Addiction can occur without the user’s being aware, but doesn’t last long because it takes so little to kill the user.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 11/3/2021 11:26:05 AM (No. 965838)
Please help me out. How many people who didn't ingest opiates were killed by them? Does anyone know? It's crucial to keep the 51-year-old "War On Drugs" going. Or else - - or else - - it will (gasp!) come to an END!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 11/3/2021 11:35:10 AM (No. 965855)
Wow! One of the most informative, eye-opening articles EVER! This is a “Must Read” for everyone, especially those making public policy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Sandpiper 11/3/2021 11:35:30 AM (No. 965856)
I left my “nice” neighborhood in the SF Bay Area because so many crazy homeless had moved in these last two years. It was no longer safe! I wondered why there seemed to be an increase in the homeless displaying schizo behavior - arguing with the air, punching unseen advisories, etc. This article goes a long ways in explaining what I was seeing. Nothing is being done to address the drug problem though. Local leaders keep insisting it is all because of the high price of housing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 11/3/2021 12:39:16 PM (No. 965959)
The ex (long time ago) "wife" did the overdose dance playing with drugs. She had a separate group of "friends" she would hang out with. She loved a good party. As a vice-president of advertising in a national retail chain, coke was an essential ingredient in creating innovative, cutting-edge narratives for product desirability. She must have gotten a hold of some fentanyl laced powder and assumed room temp forthwith. Where am I going with this diatribe, you may ask? The article warns of unintended results from taking anything touted from a drug dealer as a "good high" or a
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Reply 5 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 11/3/2021 12:44:23 PM (No. 965965)
...or a government required "vaccine". Life is a crap shoot, but you gotta know when to bet.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: MickTurn 11/3/2021 1:43:48 PM (No. 966045)
Meanwhile...Joey Xiden is letting the Cartels bring in TONS of illegal drugs...Let's pin the tail on HIS donkey this time!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 11/3/2021 3:24:09 PM (No. 966170)
Life is all about choices. I have been prescribed opiates at least a dozen times, and generally use very few or none of them, preferring to deal with a bit of pain by using tylenol or aspirin rather than take the risk of opiates unless the pain is extreme. That is a choice, because I fear the possibility of addiction. More should fear it. Lots of people don't take any care of themselves, and just blindly take anything the doc gives them, and are unwilling deal with any pain at all, so choose to 'feel good' at their own risk.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: jj1319 11/3/2021 7:41:28 PM (No. 966404)
Rehab is, by no means, a panacea for an addict. Lots and LOTS of problems with rehab. Take, for instance, the disease concept. If one accepts this idea, they are essentially agreeing to victimhood. Nothing good comes from being a willing victim. Why suggest something that doesn't work? It keeps the rehab facilities humming ($$$). Over and over again.
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