So for this politics topic I wanted to talk specifically about the harmful effects of illegal drugs and how the forum's users' cities' drug problem are. I will start off by saying that I have cerebral palsy and some mental health issues and to any casual observer, I may be a user of crack cocaine. This is not the case however; I have schizo-effective disorder. I do embarrass myself in public from time to time but I am doing my best.
Is there a rampant drug use problem in your city? In Vancouver, it seems everyone is on something. Soiled cloths, staggering. People love their drugs. To top it all off the drunks assault the alleged drug addicts. (I got assaulted by some douche keeping his neighborhood safe. Ignorance is bliss, ignorance is bliss.
How's the drug problem in your city?
Very bad. I work in a drug treatment center, and I've seen at least 6 of our clients die in the past year from overdoses, and we even had a nonfatal overdose right in our facility. Luckily we keep a Narcan kit in our med room. The word on the street is that the heroin is being cut with stuff like Fentanyl and some weird veterinary drugs like clembuterol, which I'm not sure has any sort of advantage over inert agents. I give education groups about the risks of this stuff, but you can't scare addicts into staying clean. If only we could.
So yeah, it's bad in my town.
The sum total of suffering in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
I agree but fortunately we're only exposed to a little of it at a time. For the most part. And I try to bring a little bit of hope to our patients and show them that a good life exists beyond the drugs, but that it takes time to get there. The worst is dealing with their families, who are usually scared and hurting.
Also, heroin has been in our local newspaper so frequently in the past 2 years it's unbelievable.
We used to have a death toll in our most popular news paper for about 3 years or more that actually had the heroin death toll next to the total road toll for the year, i think heroin had more deaths than car crashes for at least 2 of those years.
I don't think the heroin problem is that bad here anymore but maybe its just more underground.
The drug causing all the problems now is this ice crap, this stuff is nasty and has created a whole new drug problem.
Heroin junkies did their fair share of crime as well but once they got the cash they needed they would have their hit and just chill out or nod off but the ice problem is completely different, instead of chilling out these people stay up for days at a time and often commit more crime and get very violent.
It is out of control and the government needs to get on top of this problem quick, they are already loosing the so called "drug war" and it's not a war that can be won but they can win small battles.
What i mean by that is take a drug like ice for example - it is a man made product, the main ingredients needed can't be grown so supply can be monitored.
Apparently the main ingredient in ice is coming to us from China, we need to find out how many manufactures of this chemical there is out there and monitor who those companies are selling to.
It would not be easy but also not impossible. The American DEA did it with Quaaludes in the 80's by going after the few suppliers of the main drug from India i think.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/quaaludes.html this would be much harder than the "Ludes" though.