Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year

[88m3]

making stuff illegal does not change its availability! Illegal drugs are just as plentiful as legal drugs. With a couple calls I can get acid, shrooms, molly, weed, coke, xanax, whatever. People are going to do drugs no matter what laws are in place. Illegalization does much more harm than good. I'd rather the government be regulating these substances and putting age restrictions than leaving it up to the dope man down the street. Addicts are treated as criminals and not sick people in our current system.

Go look at the Alcohol poisoning rates during Alcohol prohibition...A legal market is always better and safer.

lol

 

[thekingsmen]

If heroin and prescription drugs were legal people would be dropping like flies.

Heroin was legal in the U.S. in the 1920's and Bayer was the backer. Didn't show any results either.

 

[88m3]

Heroin was legal in the U.S. in the 1920's and Bayer was the backer. Didn't show any results either.

So you're making a case for Bayer to be able to return to distributing heroin?


It wasn't used recreationally when it was introduced to the market btw.

 

[thekingsmen]

So you're making a case for Bayer to be able to return to distributing heroin?

No Im making a case that Heroin was used by big name companies legally and the fact that no one real evidence that people were really dropping like flies.


It wasn't used recreationally when it was introduced to the market btw.

Yes it was....

 

[88m3]

So you're making a case for heroin to be distributed by big name companies legally because people weren't dying?

For some odd reason soon after it was banned by Congress..

lol yeah it was introduced as the next marijuana!

you're such a dishonest little prick

 

[Mr. Somebody]

When you go to a psychologist they will put you on drugs even if you're just there to talk about trivial stuff like people who bother you.

 

[88m3]

When you go to a psychologist they will put you on drugs even if you're just there to talk about trivial stuff like people who bother you.

you're a prime candidate for a mental health screening

 

[thekingsmen]

So you're making a case for heroin to be distributed by big name companies legally because people weren't dying?

For some odd reason soon after it was banned by Congress..

lol yeah it was introduced as the next marijuana!

you're such a dishonest little prick

Dishonest about what again?

I bet you couldn't tell me the reason why they banned it since it was in the U.S. legally for over 20 years.

 

[jackswstd]

Now I know what the next comparison to gun deaths will be.

 

[thekingsmen]

Now I know what the next comparison to gun deaths will be.

They will never discuss Drug deaths with Guns b/c the drug companies would look bad. Big Pharma won't be touched.

 

[NYChase718]

Drug makers are giving too much POTENCY per pill?

Naw. Folk pop too many pills without reading/understanding labels. They feel invincible.

--> aq out <--

i know people that can pop like up to 10 a day cuz they say they built a tolerance

im like

the clock is about to stop ticking

 

[TrueEpic08]

@88m3 You seriously need to look up the cases of Drug legalization in Portugal and Scandinavia and educate yourself. You're letting your prejudices get in the way of actually understanding what some of these other people are arguing. I don't have time to do it myself, but take it from someone who has worked in Worker's Comp (where a startling amount of cases are about doctor shopping and preventing this) and Social Work (where the task of taking care of addicts, near impossible in the states due to the way that we treat both the mentally ill and drug addicts, always comes up): Those advocating legalization and redefinition of just what a drug addict is are correct.

Seriously. Look it up.

 

[FlimFlam]

you two arguing about drug legalization, but this issue is beyond merely illegal drugs

you're kid can get prescribed a pill for talking too much...and its masses of dumb asses who fall for that shyt, and drugs for other frivolous stuff

 

[thekingsmen]

@88m3 You seriously need to look up the cases of Drug legalization in Portugal and Scandinavia and educate yourself. You're letting your prejudices get in the way of actually understanding what some of these other people are arguing. I don't have time to do it myself, but take it from someone who has worked in Worker's Comp (where a startling amount of cases are about doctor shopping and preventing this) and Social Work (where the task of taking care of addicts, near impossible in the states due to the way that we treat both the mentally ill and drug addicts, always comes up): Those advocating legalization and redefinition of just what a drug addict is are correct.

Seriously. Look it up.

You are asking too much.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

ya drugs like heroin and cocaine used to be legal, even given to children. and you could buy them at any drug store. there was less people using them too. the fact that legal prescription pills are a leading cause of death in this country is ironic. and they actually kill more people than illegal ones

Prescription drugs are now killing far more people than illegal drugs, and while most major causes of preventable deaths are declining, those from prescription drug use are increasing, an analysis of recently released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by the Los Angeles Times revealed. Prescription Drugs Now Kill More People than Illegal Drugs



How's that war on drugs working out?

US soldiers guarding poppy fields ^