The Swamp

Rex wrote:Killing your customer base seems like a bad business plan, but then again, if I had better business instincts I wouldn't have gone to law school.

Rex wrote:

It is typically used to tranquilize elephants stronger than most other drugs.

I'm not sure exactly what that sentence is trying to convey, but it can't be good.

brian wrote:

Rex wrote:

It is typically used to tranquilize elephants stronger than most other drugs.

I'm not sure exactly what that sentence is trying to convey, but it can't be good.

Yeah, TV stations aren't known for their editing prowess. Kinda surprised this is the first I'm hear of drug addicts taking elephant tranquilizers -- seems like it would have been a no-brainer for some up-and-coming drug abusers before.

In six years, drug wholesalers showered the state with 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, while 1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers, a Sunday Gazette-Mail investigation found.

The unfettered shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia.

rass wrote:Holy shit.

In six years, drug wholesalers showered the state with 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, while 1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers, a Sunday Gazette-Mail investigation found.

The unfettered shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia.

The figures in that article are just amazing.

If only we still had a Swamper with some expertise in West Virginia pharmacies...

brian wrote:This seems...not smart.

They are dying in the potato fields of Aroostook County and the lobster-fishing harbors Down East.
They are dying in the western Maine foothills where paper mill closures have sown economic anxiety. They are dying in cities like Portland and Augusta and in the affluent suburbs, where heroin is plentiful.
The death toll reached 376 last year, driven almost entirely by opioids – prescription painkillers, heroin and now fentanyl. More than one victim per day. More than car accidents. More than suicide. More than breast cancer.
And it’s getting worse.

It’s a little after sunrise on the first day of another week, and Cincinnati is waking up again with a heroin problem. So is Covington. And Middletown. And Norwood. And Hamilton. And West Chester Township. And countless other cities and towns across Ohio and Kentucky.

This particular week, July 10 through 16, will turn out to be unexceptional by the dreary standards of what has become the region’s greatest health crisis.

rass wrote:Seven Days of Heroin

It’s a little after sunrise on the first day of another week, and Cincinnati is waking up again with a heroin problem. So is Covington. And Middletown. And Norwood. And Hamilton. And West Chester Township. And countless other cities and towns across Ohio and Kentucky.

This particular week, July 10 through 16, will turn out to be unexceptional by the dreary standards of what has become the region’s greatest health crisis.

Shirley wrote:I read the article, but didn't really understand how the scam really worked. I get that that excessively overcharged for tests and whatnot, but it implied that they somehow encouraged relapse. I missed how they actually did that. It seems that's a pretty critical part to the story of how they are killing people.

brian wrote:If you’re fucking around with anything that might possibly have fentanyl in it then absolutely.

TT2.0 wrote:

brian wrote:If you’re fucking around with anything that might possibly have fentanyl in it then absolutely.

i only really deal with hydrocodone so the only way i run into fentanyl is is someone presses fake hydrocodones, and so far thats easy to spot

The last photograph of my son Jonathan was taken at the end of a new-student barbecue on the campus green at the University of Denver. It was one of those bittersweet transitional moments. We were feeling the combination of apprehension and optimism that every parent feels when dropping off a kid at college for the first time, which amplified by the fact that we were coming off a rocky 16 months with our son.

We had moved him into his dormitory room only that morning. I remember how sharp he looked in the outfit he had selected, and his eagerness to start class and make new friends. We were happy, relieved, and, knowing what we thought he had overcome, proud. At lunch, I asked Jonathan whether he thought he was ready for the coming school year. “Dad, I can handle it as long as I continue my recovery,” he said. “Everything flows from that.”

Only three days later, Jonathan was found unresponsive in his dormitory-room bed, one of several victims of a fentanyl-laden batch of heroin that had spread through the Denver area that week.

Helen Kaupang, who was a DEA investigator and supervisor for 29 years before she retired in September, said the law has made it more difficult to bring cases against companies suspected of violating the nation’s drugs laws. She called the provision that permits companies to submit corrective plans a “get out of jail free card” because those plans delay the DEA from taking action against companies and allow them to continue to dispense drugs.

mister d wrote:But people would be out of a job if they weren't allowed to work for a company that poisons and kills other people with indemnity. A true conundrum.

spongelikeninja wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:52 pm My younger brother died of a heroin OD earlier this year. He had been in and out of rehab a few times for other things over a period of close to 20 years. Mainly alcohol and coke, specifically crack, but not opiods as far as I knew. Also never jailed for any kind of drug violations as far as I know. I don't know how people that get on that train can ever recover, but huge respect for those are able to come out the other side. That shit is a monster.