Heroin: Not just the inner city, anymore
By adamg - Mon, 03/24/2008 - 4:26pm.
Heroin hits home is an A&E documentary (airing tonight) on the growing problem of heroin addiction in Boston suburbs. Narrated by Donnie Wahlberg.
Via Blue Mass. Group, which digs up statistics showing more people die of heroin and Oxycontin addiction than car crashes in Massachusetts.
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this is worse now than ever
a friend of mine died this weekend.such a waste.
Heroin was big in places
Heroin was big in places like Milford 30 years ago. These drug scare stories repeat themselves over decades - and things are always "getting worse". If things were really getting worse all these years, we'd all have to be dead now.
Hello? Hello? Hello?
Anyone home????
Many people seen this
Many people seen this coming. Oxycontin was just a gateway to heroin. just one Oxycontin pill ranges from 50 to 100 dollars, herion becomes a far more cheaper alternative. Why people don't learn from the past, It just escapes me. I have seen heroin addiction in all it stages. This crap is just evil. I hate how movies make it chic and hip. The end result is death, families are torn to pieces. And it steals your soul. My heart goes out to families destroyed by this garbage. It is nice to see Wahlberg get behind this project. He grew up around this in Dorchester.
kudos to wahlberg
but this problem is not solved by some rehashed A&E Intervention documentary.i watched and it was a lot of the same old same old. i know at least 2 people that die from this shit every year.good kids that never grew up and never got away from the indulgences of childhoods that saw limited possiblities.i dont know the answers but whatever they have been trying is clearly not working.i think the state needs to offer long term rehabs for people who need it regardless of their economic situations.ive seen many friends go into rehabs only to be kicked to the curb 4-5 days into a program because they had shitty insurance.if coupe deval is so interested in universal healthcare for the state maybe he should start by trying to fix some severly damaged kids that might have chances with the right programs and the oppurtunity to receive long term care for problems that stay with them for the rest of their lives.
don't vote Republican unless you own a pharmaceutical company
A friend of mine (for 30 years) got hooked on oxycontin. He spent $200,000 year feeding the monkey on his back. He lost his law practice, his girlfriend, his daughter and finally his friend (me). It was long painful slide to the bottom. Luckily, he has his life (I think) but i don't know if he's clean... I hope so.
The Department of Justice settled a case with the manufacturer of Oxycontin that claimed it was not habit-forming and marketed it as non-habit forming prescription pain killer even though internal documents showed they knew it WAS habit forming.
They paid about $100 million in fines but the agreement prohibits individuals from suing the company for fraudulent business practices. Your federal government, under George Bush, has no interest in your rights, it uses all of its power protecting business even when the business acts in a fraudulent way that causes real harm to citizens. Please don't vote Republican unless you own a pharmaceutical company.