Meth is killing people

Do you want to live forever?

It's cheap too, and easier to obtain than pills. Tons of books coming out on this subject: DOPESICK, AMERICAN OVERDOSE, etc.

I don’t care how many people die of a drug overdose. If you voluntarily take drugs like meth, oh well.

And if you gotta go what better way than a drug fueled sexcapade.

The stuff is all over the place.

[quote] I don’t care how many people die of a drug overdose. If you voluntarily take drugs like meth, oh well.

Why do you think taking drugs is an issue of morality?

Do you care when your parents die of heart attacks or cancer? They ate shit all their lives; they had a choice.

Just because someone takes drugs doesn't mean they deserve to die.

In fact, far more people die from taking prescribed drugs than illegals ones

Did these people die doing what they loved? Isn't that the goal? I give props to them, I think.

I don’t know a single person who does meth or opioids.

It’s drug induced choices

R5 Ever heard of accountability?

Drug users never take responsibility.

In related news, water is wet.

Damn, r12 beat me to it.

I just treated a 7 year-old patient with an extensive history of congenital heart defect. On top of that, he was born with FASD, I looked into his records and he was born with marijuana, alcohol, and meth in his system. Sad thing is he's still living with his parents both of whom are still active meth and weed addicts. They won't give up custody because they get money for his disability from SSDI checks, which I presume they blow on meth, weed, and alcohol.

R8 I know several and all are people I wouldn't be sorry to see die.

R14 I know someone whose kid was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. She still has custody.

At this point I am all for Darwin resolving this problem.

I wish I had access to drugs...... My nephew is a meth head and he steals everything that isn't nailed down. Drug addicts lie, cheat, and steal so I don't want to associate with them because they will probably rob my house but I wish I knew where I could anonymously buy drugs like cocaine and meth in my area.

[quote]I don’t know a single person who does meth or opioids.

Chances are you do, but they hide it—especially from non-users. Addicts are everywhere.

r18 You won't be living in your area very long after you score meth and spiral into desperate drug addiction. Say goodbye to all that in about a year give or take.

It's like a Biblical time line: consider areas like Appalachia and Ohio:

Closing/outsourcing of jobs like furniture factories, auto plants, steel mills and coal mines begat widespread unemployment, which begat a spike in disability claims (many real, some fake, but with the same objective, to get paid somehow), which begat the opportunity seized by Big Pharma devil Purdue to flood the region with "miracle drug" OxyContin, which begat the meteoric rise of "pain clinics" which begat unsavory doctors making big bucks which begat near instantaneous and widespread addiction and death, which begat the DEA finally getting hip and cutting off prescriptions and pain clinics closing, with MDs scurrying away like rats, which begat a black market for pills, which begat crime, misery, and still more death, which begat the rise of meth, which was cheaper and easier to cook, and in the minds of the desperate did the job just as well.

There. What did I miss?

You generally don't OD on meth. It's other problems associated with its use, like heart attacks & polypharmacy.

r21 the governments are responsible for this, not BP. They are the ones who refused to regulate due to the BP lobby. The doctors, too, were (and are) unregulated. Strong regulation would have stopped this in its tracks.

r14 they probably had the kid in the first place for that reason. Many women do this, but no one will publicly address it. The local addict advocates are pushing a harm reduction agenda that does not include scientific, evidence-based treatment centres. Instead, they create a negative feedback loop that puts people into detox, then back on the street. This includes mothers who are "getting clean for their kid(s)" but in reality are just trying to avoid jail and/or getting their paycheques cut off.

Why are most 'out' homosexuals on drugs?

Addiction kills. You can fill in the blank with any substance.

R23 — because they’re fucking fun

R8, do you really think meth users are all missing teeth, down on their luck, living on the streets?

I assure you some of your friends do meth

Much has better to take opioids put out by pharm companies, made in pristine FDA-approved laboratories.