Lauderdale Authorities Declare War on Heroin After Three Die

big city problems are here.. we better start dealing with them, now!

Heroin was rampant here decades ago, mostly from Asia.  I suspect this stuff is from Latin America.  In the past, the dealers cut it with powdered milk or sugar. Can't understand why they use nastier stuff -- kill off their clientele quicker.

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Amen Big Guy. This is so, so sad.

Another example of why we need to completely rethink how we handle drugs in this country.

Put 'em in the drugstores and get off doctor's backs so they can write scripts to addicts,

They already write scripts to dope heads.  In the form of opiate based pain pills.  I refuse to use the term addict, because the idiots taking that stuff do it to themselves.  I know this because I have a dope head in my family, and making it easier for him to get his dope ain't gonna help his wife or kids.  However controlling the manufacturing process might.

Yeah, like controlling the manufacturing process for meth and all the other illegal products has worked so well!

After dealing with a dope head personally, I am almost to the point of putting the dopers and all the drugs they can get behind a big fence and let the stupid ones overdose, and the ones that want to stop, can stop on their own.

I'm quite cynical about the whole war on drugs, which is even less successful than the war on poverty. Poverty rate is the same after decades.  Drug users are up, plus swollen prisons, loss of freedom, and rampant corruption destroying much of Mexico.

I don't know the right way to deal with drug abuse is, but we are not doing it the right way now.

It seems like we catch the user on the street and never touch the source.  The police know who the prescription writers (I refuse to use the term doctor) are and will not touch them.  

Abuse of prescription narcotics is a vicious cycle, and as a result has caused Drs to watch more closely their despensing of such.  It has caused the patients to adhere to standards set by the Drs because of the requirements placed on them.  Patients may have drug test to check for things other than what they are prescribed and the levels of what they are prescribed,  or random call in to office for a pill count to see what amount they have. if they don't "pass" any of these, they get kicked from their Dr.  By the same token if the Drs appear by their records or methods to be careless in how they are treating and dispensing the narcotics, they get shut down and license pulled.  This results in a patient losing their Dr until they can find a new one, which leads to not being able to get their meds, which depending on the bodies dependance of such, may cause sickness from withdrawals, and possibly death from the sudden stop.  This leads many to the next source. The dealer.  Where do dealers get the drugs?  People who legally get them but don't really take them so they sell them to make money (un-employment ya know) people who actually need them but need money worse, people who steal them and sell to dealers or trade them for other drugs, or sometimes and often, a crooked Dr.   So, you look closer to the issue now and what do you see as the culprit?  Money and dependance.  Like Huey Lewis sang, "I want a new drug", thats what we need. One that is non-addictive, that works, and can get over the counter.  Oh, but there's that evil root the drug companies, doctors, dealers, police drug forces, and government loves....MONEY.   

In our area, the pill heads know each pill Dr in a 50 mile radius.  A pill head can move to a new town and will know where to get a prescription written within a short time.  

Still, it is a victimless crime. Who cares ?

I care

The victims whose things are stolen to purchase the drugs are victims. 

Yes they are.  You and I are on different sides, but I ain't ever gonna take up for the one who steals to support a drug habit.

Not victimless crime as addicts steal from people to support their habit.   Also who is going to pay for the scripts written to druggies?

The children of these addicts are victims.

We are all victims!