re: The story of my childhood friend's murder and his Father's search for Justice and more...

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Had he not done what he did, the NOPD would have never solb d that case.

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I wasnt going to bring it up in fear of derailing thread, but the fact he had to spent months homself interrogating locals to solve his sons murder is insane to me.

Not the fault of the nopd.

The locals protect their own, so to say. I learned this first in high school. I worked with a woman whose brother was murdered. She said everyone knew who did it, including herself, but nobody would talk about it.

That is the problem with inner city problems today, imo

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Also, did anyone else catch the name of her attorney? (the one making the racial allegations)..... 
It's the same guy who was a juvenile judge; he was accused of forcible rape; he was pulled over while driving a stolen vehicle; and is currently under indictment for his involvement in an auto-theft ring.

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Sounds like he should be the next mayor of new orleans. He wont win, i dont see embezzlement anywhere on his rap sheet

I'm glad opiates make me violently ill. If I had been able to take those like I took benzodiazepines I'd have been gone long ago myself.

Doctors threw those at me and I could go through 60 in a week, and on top of that was also being prescribed ambien. For years.


I believe a lot of these medications should be pull off the market, or at least monitored closer. Marijuana should be legal in all states and people shouldn't be able to profit off of prisons.

Looking back, it's completely insane how unregulated and how 'wild Wild West' these pill mills were.


I remember when I was turned on to them I recruited friends to go with me so we could maximize our poll get.

We were in HS and going to the doctor and paying cash with ZERO wrong and getting as many as 160 80mg Oxya a piece. The rule was that you could go 3 months or so without having any documentation of any pain. I had one friend that told them he had 'kidney disease' had another that had an MRI for a broken ankle when he was like 12 years old that got him the 'trinity' of pills. Had friends had printed out fake MRI reports off the internet that just changed the name on it.

You stood in line in the parking lots and when you got to the window and paid your cash, they handed you a preprinted out prescription with your Meds on it. Some clinics had their own pharmacy that you would walk from they window to the 'pharmacy' window and purchased your pills. All cash.

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stood in line in the parking lots and when you got to the window and paid your cash, they handed you a preprinted out prescription with your Meds on it. Some clinics had their own pharmacy that you would walk from they window to the 'pharmacy' window and purchased your pills. All cash.

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I went to one in Houston like this once, never been back to any, it just felt so risky to me and I really don't like pain pills. Plus we were in a shady part of town. frick that shite, I'm glad these things aren't as big as they once were, a lot of people died behind this and it's very sad

That’s absolutely disgusting

While not an opiate addict myself, I've been very involved in the recovery community the last 3 years. I've spent time in 3 treatment centers in that time. I'd estimate opiate addicts currently make up around 80% of the patients in treatment centers. I'd say meth would be about another 15% and alcohol and other drugs the other 5%. It's grabbing people of all races and status. I've met kids from very prominent high schools, LSU Greeks, several doctors and an even larger amount of nurses, quite a few pharmacist, med students, etc. It has been very eye-opening. The extremes they will go to to satisfy their habit is staggering, risking careers, families, and their freedom. I've heard all about these pill mills. Louisiana actually cracked down earlier than Texas and Florida. I'm not naive at all when it comes to drugs and have done more than my share when I was younger, but to hear of beautiful, smart, white college students shooting heroin in gas stations and prostituting themselves to afford it blew my mind. It's real and it's killing an obscene amount of people. I personally know of 7-8 people to have died in the last 3 years because of opiate OD's. In fact, a guy I knew really well up here in North LA that came from an extremely wealthy and prominent family died last month after being hospitalized for MRSA and having his drugs smuggled into the hospital and injected in his port. Dead.

I've have a close personal friend that was last heard from wandering the streets of Washington St homeless because of his addiction. While his family isn't rich, it's pretty darn wealthy. Yeah, he's homeless right now. Again. He was homeless for several months a few years ago but built his life back. Well, he burned it all down again again for opiates. He'll probably be dead next.

that black lady pill mill doctor be witch hunt since day 1

Really disgusted with the whole state medical licensing board. Everyone of them took an oath Not to harm patients, yet they let shite like this happen. No one expects the state bar to do anything but you'd think it'd be different for doctors. Hope that doctor goes to hell.

Great article. The officials at Purdue Pharma (at least the ones at the advent of this
crisis) should be imprisoned fwiw. The only difference between them and the average street dealer is the corporate veneer.