Thread: America’s Addiction to Opioids: Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse

ExCaliGirl, thank you for sharing the story of your dear son. It tells the tragedy of the War on Drugs, the War on Pot, and the clear collusion between authorities and the drug cartels. Your son goes to jail and the cartels become multi-billionaires. Such a tragedy. I'm sure your son is a good person, and it's very wrong what happened to him and what authorities did to him. So wrong. Bless his heart, he's dealt with so much. The present rehab system just doesn't work very well because it's program oriented for funding instead of person oriented to heal.

I long for the 70's, don't you? It was my favorite decade. Things made sense, most things were right, and those that were wrong were moving in the right direction to be fixed. Then I just don't know what happened, everything went bonkers, the ramped up War on Drugs, open borders, amnesty, illegal immigration, ramped up legal immigration, free trade treason, wars, terrorism, unemployment, poverty, spending out of control and national debt to pay for it.

Very sad to see our wonderful country going through this and the terrible price citizens like your son are paying as a result of it. The Oxycontin is a terrible drug. It should probably be removed from the non-hospital market. And hospitals have got to stop prescribing it in most of its "pain management" programs. There's just something not right about it.

You know Rush Limbaugh got hooked on this stuff.

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