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Study finds 3/4 of high school heroin users started with prescription opioids

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Study finds 3/4 of high school heroin users started with prescription opioids

Nonmedical use of prescription opioids (a.k.a.: pain-killers, narcotics) such as Vicodin, Percocet, and Oxycontin has become increasingly problematic in recent years with increases nation-wide in overdoses, hospital treatment admissions, and deaths. Use also appears to be contributing to heroin initiation, which has increased in recent years, as the demographics of users are shifting. Those previously at low risk — women, whites, and individuals of higher income — are now using at unprecedented rates.
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Anomalism said:
Study finds 3/4 of high school heroin users started with prescription opioids
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It's just business. Business and drugs. Business and war weapons. You have to do something with all that OPIUM coming from protected poppy fields in Afghanistan. Big Opium requires Big Buyers, don't ya' know? 290 tons per year of opium produced in Afghanistan in 2002 and over 10,000 tons and more per year now. I wonder, if we put our heads together, if we could deduce the source of the Opium/vicodin/percoset/oxycontin/heroin problem?
 
Heroin use by high school seniors. What an incredible, disgusting thing in America.

More reasonable minds could conclude that this actually started with a devastating, inner city societal deterioration to the point where children are simply growing up by themselves with no parental influence at all, the constantly expanding and sexually creative libertine excesses of Liberal pop culture, public schools that have no discipline, no focus or qualified educators and of course the constant demand for a "no judgments, anything goes" society with all concerned objectors branded as "Haters."
 
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Make it legal. Their bodies are their business.

If they want to shoot heroin, that is their business.

Making it legal would make it FARE cheaper so they do not have to commit serious crimes to buy the drug, would mean that they would not go to jail and ruin their lives just for possession and making it legal would make it far easier for them to openly talk about it and seek help (when the time comes - and with heroin...it will).
 
DaveFagan said:
It's just business. Business and drugs. Business and war weapons. You have to do something with all that OPIUM coming from protected poppy fields in Afghanistan. Big Opium requires Big Buyers, don't ya' know? 290 tons per year of opium produced in Afghanistan in 2002 and over 10,000 tons and more per year now. I wonder, if we put our heads together, if we could deduce the source of the Opium/vicodin/percoset/oxycontin/heroin problem?
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You do know that heroin and oxycontin are synthetic right?
 
I found this little nugget from the OP link to be interresting:

A lot of teens don’t trust warnings about the harm prescription opioids can cause because they’re taught that using any drug — even marijuana — even once — will ruin their life forever.
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If some "official" information about drugs is pure BS then perhaps more (all?) of it is. That is not logical, of course, but it is not entrely unlikely either. If many folks can be convinced that a scary black rifle is "just like" a military assault weapon or that a tiny round like .380 ACP or .22 LR lacks human stopping/killing power then it must be so. Too often people will discover something to be complete BS coming from a "trusted source" only once and then reject all information comming from that source. Trust is hard to earn but much easier to lose.
 
Ray410 said:
More reasonable minds could conclude that this actually started with a devastating, inner city societal deterioration to the point where children are simply growing up by themselves with no parental influence at all
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opiate addiction is not just an inner city problem. I'm actually fairly certain that the areas of the country where opiate addiction rates are highest are in rural areas.
 
bg85 said:
opiate addiction is not just an inner city problem. I'm actually fairly certain that the areas of the country where opiate addiction rates are highest are in rural areas.
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Maybe. Notice that I was referring to 1) Heroin use, and 2) Where this usage started.
 
Carjosse said:
You do know that heroin and oxycontin are synthetic right?
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What is Heroin? How is Heroin Made? What is Heroin Made of? - Drug-Free World
"Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It is used by millions of addicts around the world who are unable to overcome the urge to continue taking this drug every day of their lives—knowing that if they stop, they will face the horror of withdrawal.

Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants. Milky, sap-like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin."

How is Heroin Made? - HealthyPlace
"Heroin is an opiate, stemming from the term opium, indicating heroin is made from the opium poppy. However, heroin is a semi-synthetic opiate as heroin is made not directly from the poppy, but from morphine. Morphine comes from the opium poppy directly."
 
DaveFagan said:
It's just business. Business and drugs. Business and war weapons. You have to do something with all that OPIUM coming from protected poppy fields in Afghanistan. Big Opium requires Big Buyers, don't ya' know? 290 tons per year of opium produced in Afghanistan in 2002 and over 10,000 tons and more per year now. I wonder, if we put our heads together, if we could deduce the source of the Opium/vicodin/percoset/oxycontin/heroin problem?
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You're aware that except for opium, the 3 of the items you listed are synthetic opiods?

This is as much about big-pharma.

Edit: took heroin of the list
 
Ray410 said:
Maybe. Notice that I was referring to 1) Heroin use, and 2) Where this usage started.
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right. heroin is an opiate. I'm not sure it started just in inner cities either.
 
Ray410 said:
Heroin use by high school seniors. What an incredible, disgusting thing in America.

More reasonable minds could conclude that this actually started with a devastating, inner city societal deterioration to the point where children are simply growing up by themselves with no parental influence at all, the constantly expanding and sexually creative libertine excesses of Liberal pop culture, public schools that have no discipline, no focus or qualified educators and of course the constant demand for a "no judgments, anything goes" society with all concerned objectors branded as "Haters."
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Heroin addiction in youth has been around since heroin was first synthesized.

It has nothing to do with liberals, rant notwithstanding.
 
Mr Person said:
Heroin addiction in youth has been around since heroin was first synthesized.

It has nothing to do with liberals, rant notwithstanding.
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That post is nonsense, of course it does.
 
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Anomalism said:
Study finds 3/4 of high school heroin users started with prescription opioids
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I'm not surprised. I'm amazed how readily doctors will proscribe narcotic painkillers.

I went to the doctor a few months ago because I hurt my back. I have a family history of back problems and wanted to make sure it wasn't something serious. The doctor said it was just a bad muscle pull and gave me a prescription for a muscle relaxant and in his words "a small prescription of norco for the pain". When I got to the pharmacy, he had written me a prescription for 4 norco a day and given me a 15 day supply. That's his idea of a "small prescription"?
 
molten_dragon said:
I'm not surprised. I'm amazed how readily doctors will proscribe narcotic painkillers.

I went to the doctor a few months ago because I hurt my back. I have a family history of back problems and wanted to make sure it wasn't something serious. The doctor said it was just a bad muscle pull and gave me a prescription for a muscle relaxant and in his words "a small prescription of norco for the pain". When I got to the pharmacy, he had written me a prescription for 4 norco a day and given me a 15 day supply. That's his idea of a "small prescription"?
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That's a "small prescription"..

Two weeks of pain killers and a muscle relaxant.

He should have prescribed PT though.
 
jaeger19 said:
That's a "small prescription"..

Two weeks of pain killers and a muscle relaxant.

He should have prescribed PT though.
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Do doctors typically prescribe physical therapy for just a muscle pull? I thought that was typically reserved for more serious injuries?
 
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