re: deadly drug called “gray death” found in Louisiana; just touching it could kill you

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heroin mixed with fent isn't anything new, especially in the south. I guess they figured it needed a scary sounding name

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Now people will be trying to turn their heroin gray to get more money for it.

Legalize narcotics (without taxing them into the stratosphere) and problems like this disappear overnight. The War on Drugs was a failure; time to try another way.

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I can recall in the mid 90s media pushing the narrative that pain was undertreated and some subsequent successful lawsuits for undertreating pain.

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When I was at Bama in the mid 90's, there was a doc at the student health center that gave out lortab prescriptions very graciously. We had no idea the dangers with them, and he certainly didn't tell us. We just knew a couple of them before a night of drinking made you feel awesome. So we'd go on Thursday complaining of back pain, get a prescription, and eat the entire bottle over a weekend.

Amazing none of us got hooked.

I'm curious, who do you blame in that situation?

I’m so naive regarding hard drugs so I have to ask: Why would someone take a drug that could likely kill them almost instantly.

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wondering the same... i mean if it can kill normal person by touching it, big time dopers have some sort of superpowers where it doesnt effect them like it does normal folk??

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makes story into b.s.

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Why would someone take a drug that could likely kill them almost instantly.

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A couple of problems with this. One, the belief that the drug can instantly kill them is a scare tactic that isn't entirely accurate.

But ignoring that, addiction is a nasty thing. Addicts make all kinds of irrational, dumb decisions, and it's not always made with a clear mind. Their bodies tell them they need that drug, and if they don't get it their body goes into withdrawal which for some drugs can be very unpleasant. Add to it that when they score their drug of choice, it's on the black market where there is no mechanism in place to verify what they're buying isn't cut with something more dangerous.

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I've never even seen heroin. When did it become so widespread? The past 10-15 years?

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Yeah, it's about that new. You and I grew up in the same area around the same time and I was wasn't exactly scared to try the hard stuff. Heroin wasn't even in the discussion. 5 years ago, I made the rehab circuit for alcohol and heroin was the drug of choice for the younger crowd. Kids from fraternities, high end BR High School, trailer park crowd, you name it. It's infiltrated the younger folks. Like you, I've never even seen it. The first I had heard of it making it's comeback was when a great friends little brother died of it around 2014. I'm quite sure you knew him, KK was his initials. We had all distanced ourselves from him as we grew older and his drug problem lingered, but I was shocked to hear that heroin was what got him.


On that note, I got a random text the other day asking 'if I fuk with that girl or that boy'? It was from a unknown number so it had to be a wrong number. I think 'that girl' is what the gays calls crystal meth so maybe 'that boy' is heroin. I don't know. I considered fricking with them back but then decided against it. Nothing good could come from it. Never heard from them again.

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