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The Consequences Of America’s Invasion Of Afghanistan: NYC Heroin Deaths Highest In A Decade
While back in May Obama promised America's mission in Afghanistan was over, and all US troops would leave the country by the end of 2016, the "unintended" consequences of the US presence in this favored by al-Qaeda country will haunt America for a long time. And especially New York, where according to a new report by the Department of Mental Hygiene, the number of people who died from unintentional heroin overdoses in New York City last year was the highest in over a decade.
As WaPo reports, in New York, "where the overall rate of drug overdose deaths has dramatically risen since 2010, there is a national problem playing out across the city’s streets. The number of overdoses involving heroin in the city has significantly increased since 2010, accounting for more than half of New York City’s overdoses last year. And more than three-quarters of the overdoses in the city involved an opioid of some kind."
The number of heroin overdose deaths has risen every year since 2010, as the number of deaths has more than doubled to 420 people last year from 209 just three years earlier:
Some more on the ethnic and socioeconomic distribution of heroin-related deaths:
These overdoses are significantly impacting neighborhoods where the poverty level is the highest:
The Bronx and Staten Island were the boroughs where the most heroin overdoses occurred, but the situation worsened in Queens. That borough — which had trailed the other four in 2011 and 2012 — saw the rate of heroin overdoses more than double last year.
As has been the case for years, the rate of overdoses is the highest among white residents. But the rate has skyrocketed among Hispanic residents, more than doubling from 2010:
... and by age group:
Another particularly troubling trend noted by the Health Department was the increased rate of overdoses seen among younger New Yorkers. The age bracket with the biggest increase in heroin overdoses was people between 15 and 34, though people 35 to 54 still had the highest rate of heroin overdoses.
So why do we say that any of the above tragic events is a direct consequence of US presence in Afghanistan? Well, because while the US may be getting out of Afghanistan, it has been there since 2001. And what has happened to Afghan opium cultivation during the period of implicit US occupation?
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America’s Invasion Of Afghanistan = NYC Heroin Deaths
You gotta be shittin' me... What a fukin' Lib MSM stretch!
Article is liberals' fault.
Well it's disinformation.
Americans love to get high. If they weren't shooting heroin, they'd be sniffing glue.
John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade.
You know the whole Opium Wars in China? That was their downfall when the masses and the rulers got addicted to it.
John Kerry is now the secretary of state, the top manager of foreign affairs. He will make sure Afghanistanians cultivate opium production to sell them to Chinese.
FDR's grandfather was in on it too.
Paragraph 6:
http://www.voxfux.com/features/skull_bones_treason.html
Well if they hadn't of violated the constitution in 1937, we wouldn't have these unforseen consequences now would we?
What was the violation of 1937? Ever since 1913 the Washingtonians are good for nothing but Constitutional violations.
"Today I am grateful to be alive. Every now and then we have stark reminders that life is fleeting and subject to change on little to no notice. Yesterday a man on heroin passed out while driving and killed Brittany McGrath and her father. Brittany was about to start work as an associate at my firm in two weeks, and I was lucky enough to have recruited her and acted as her mentor when she was a summer associate."
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/two_arrraigned_in_fatal_c...
I challenge any of you calling this a farce to come up with a plausible explanation for the following scenario. Take a city, any city, and look at the hi schools. At any time drugs can be found within minutes or within a few phone calls. The challenge here is to examine how there can be so much supply.
If a major city has 25 hi schools and each school has easy access to supply, multiply the number of schools in each city by the number of US cities. My point here is that the amount of supply being steadily imported is staggering. The supply chain logistics of the drug trade simply means that supply is coming in from other areas other than inside tires at vehicle border crossings and hidden in luggage. Someone big is supplying the US population, and if anyone cares to look deeper into this you'd find some disturbing results. Yes there are patsies and low grade traffickers that try to cross the border to make a buck, but that's not the source of all of the thousands of pounds of drugs available across the US - right now!
There is no way you can deny the supply side of this equation and say that there isn't a large organized entity behind it.
Because it is legal?
Desparate government legalizing soma to chill out the population....mostly bored rich kids and destitute unemployed poor.
Also if it pays more to be dealer than a min wage slave at walmart, people will pursue it.
The real question is WHY do people need it?
The real concern is drug king pins today will send their children to Harvard and they will become future US politician!
Sassoon family managed UK's opium trade into China, before, during & after Opium War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family#Opium_trade
Vidal went straight, dressing hair instead of pushing smack. His family's main business never changed. They are likely behind heroin imports to US. Their bank of choice was HSBC, which was founded to wash drug $$$ from sales to China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hongkong_and_Shanghai_Banking_Corporati...
HSBC is still washing $$$ for drug pushers. & everything old is new again.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves-1-9b-drug-m...
Or getting drunk in church.
Truly. I'd like to see that graph overlaid with a chart of how many people die from properly taken prescription drugs. Big Pharm is more of a pusher in my world.
Miffed;-)
1 source,
Miffed;-)
http://www.thrivemovement.com/reality-check
What is the leading cause of death in the United States?
A comprehensive study entitled Death by Medicine found that more than 780,000 Americans die every year from medical intervention the equivalent of 6 jumbo jets filled with passengers falling out of the sky every day (source: Death By Medicine by Gary Null, et al.).
http://www.thrivemovement.com/medical-establishment
It would theoretically be easier to live longer with a heroin addiction than an alcohol addiction. There is no rational sense to drug laws, but rather there tends to be an inverse correlation between how bad a drug is and how illegal it is. Some of the worst drugs are the most legal, while some of the best drugs are the most illegal. The war on drugs was another of the phases of the wars based on deceits by the ruling classes, in order to advance their overall agenda of debt slavery, which was generally backed up by wars based on deceits. Those all take place within the overall ways that the ruling classes waged war on the consciousness of those that they ruled over, which has been way too successful, for way too long! Those systems tend to be integrated, so that it is a well-established fact that one of the biggest drug pushers in the world was the CIA, and other related groups.
EVERYTHING SIGNIFICANT now runs on the basis that the government is the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. That is the only way to integrate all the information regarding the true nature of the "war on drugs" which developed the fascist police state powers that segued into the "war on terror." In the particular case of the inside job, false flag attacks on 9/11/2001 resulting in the invasion of Afghanistan, the final results were that there is now more illegal drug production there now than ever. (However, how much of that goes to the USA these days I am not sure about.)
Of course, overall, that is totally tangled up in the fact that the biggest gangsters are the banksters, and the profits made from illegal drugs eventually work their way through the lesser levels of organized crime gangs into the biggest banks. Since the banksters dominate their puppet politicians throughout NATO countries, the entire "war on drugs" was based on huge lies, like the "war on terror" was started with huge lies, that both were deliberately designed to become self-fulfilling prophesies, which deliberate drive vicious spirals, that make everything worse, except for the different levels of organized crime, and especially for the highest levels that control the government, who make more money, and become more powerful, from the more screwed up they can make society become.
It is impossible to exaggerate the ways that money being based on measurement backed by murder has become more tangled up in perverted inversions than one can fully comprehend. In particular, the NATO forces in Afghanistan operated WAR BASED ON DECEITS, whose only real purpose was to make some people able to become more wealthy from that. Of course, every other stated goal was for show. Every stated goal was promoted by professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, which ended up being a gross waste of blood and treasure, EXCEPT FOR MAKING SOME PEOPLE MORE WEALTHY.
(For a record of my thoughts regarding the Canadian participation in the War in Afghanistan, and how all the predictable perversions actually came to pass, skim through this thread: troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana)
When are you going to publish your illustrated guide to world history? My grandchildren would need to read it.
Actually the US heroin is coming in from the Mexican border. Afghan heroin ends up in Europe.
That is pretty silly - the point of entry has nothing to do withe point of origin
Heron is Middle East and south east Asia product
The Occupying force creates the environment and facilitates the distribution
It went down when the Taliban controlled the show
Omen IV That is pretty silly - the point of entry has nothing to do withe point of origin
Heron is Middle East and south east Asia product
The Occupying force creates the environment and facilitates the distribution
It went down when the Taliban controlled the show
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Not so silly when the heroin is actually produced in countries like Columbia and Mexico, not the ME or Asia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tracing-the-us-heroin-surge-back-sou...
100% right sessinpo, US heroin is grown in Columbia and Mexico, not the ME or Asia.
Omen the 4th is one of those people that omits any facts that don't fit his world view, like the author of the Article here.
You can't grow heroin. The opium is grown in Asia / Persia and shipped to heroin production factories in China, Burma, Columbia, Mexico, Nigeria, and anywhere else that has a backdoor facilitated by black money back handers. Once refined and cut it gets repackaged and shipped to the final destination.
Similar production and supply lines have been in place since Vietnam, when the opium was grown in Thailand.
Those bad taliban dudes, getting rid of the juice like that. What were they doing exactly? Starting a war on drugs?
yeah... wouldn't be anything to do with the last decade of Progressive leadership now would it?...
HmmmmmMMM?
Fuck this propoganda. How about drug-takers simply being responsible for their own destructive behavior?
Seems 420 people out of 8 million in NYC are so fucked up, they can't keep from killing themselves. And if the USA never entered Afghanistan, these 420 would all be brain surgeons now, eh?
Says the dealer whose account has been here for years and who has posted. How many times? Don't worry, though. The Drudge crowd will suck up your shilling like whipped cream on a ....
See?!
Crime is also skyrocketing again in the Big Apple my cousin Vinny tells me. He live in Greenwich Village but works across town near Bellevue Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital He used to walk back forth to work but no more...."too dangerous now" he sighs.
LES teen is slain for $600 Marmot parkahttp://nypost.com/2013/01/06/les-teen-is-slain-for-600-marmot-parka/
I guess "diversity" ain;t for everyone.
Your cousin Vinny? The problem we face is diversity, and not oligarchy? Fucking A. This is the shit that passes now on ZH and gets upvotes? I think I'm going to Fuggetabout this place. Bye Tylers. Good to know 'ya.
His name was Tyler Durden.
Easy, LTER. Sometimes it's difficult to know when a post is tongue-in-cheek. Sometimes I give the poster the benefit of the doubt. Occasionally, after a history is established, the doubt is erased, resulting in my either reading that poster's future posts or ignoring them. Water off my back. Quack.
Moron.
Agreed. And how about the government stop importing the crap and jailing people for doing what they want? How about the government stop taking it's cut from the "legal" opiate derivatives, like Oxycontin, that are passed out like candy by doctors without regard to the addictiveness of the drugs? How about when the government discovers a conspiracy to falsify the data about the adictiveness of the drugs and to fraudulently convince every Dr. with Rx writing privileges that it is a risk free wonder drug, the government puts the conspirators in jail instead of taking $640 million from them. And while you are at it you self-righteous douche, why don't you go self administer a .45 to your head.
No,thank the war on prescription drugs,
Unintended consequence #1 of US war on prescription opiates?
American heroin od's ski-rocket.
Read it,and weep,comrades
The DEA has launched a widespread crackdown on pain doctors who prescribe Oxycontin and othe prescription narcotics, a crackdown that limits access to safer U.S. narcotic drugs and whose main purpose is to steer opiate drug addicts into buying street heroin furnished by international dope smugglers such as the Sinaloa cartel. The Sinaloa cartel owns the DEA, using the DEA to eliminate its competition from the Columbian druglords.
First they collected $640 million from the manufacturer. Didn't go to the treasury - went strtaight to DOJ coffers to fund Holder's G5.
Heroin addicts steal everything of value from their loved ones first...Its a hell of a deal to try to sit with a person going through an overdose/withdrawels...more than one man can handle once it really kicks in...I sat with my stepson this winter, over the holidays up for nearly a week straight, got about 15 min of rest every hour and then the rest of the time trying to hold him down, keep him alive, etc. Near the end, it took me, my big cousin, and two of his friends to try to keep him under control. Long story and not a good one....
Thank god for this Forum! I was not a member but found humor and a bit of diversion reading all of your posts...in total, I figure I lost 10k worth of stuff, not including his Mothers jewelry, his boss lost another 5k...even my goddamn old Dewalt cordless drill is missing!
We havnt heard from him in months, I suspect the next call will be coming in from a morgue someplace...then, I'll deal with that mess and get momma through it the best I can.
Police here say they are overwhelmed with it and the ER's are full of tweakers any night of the week in various stages of OD's...too dangerous to walk around, its like the Zombie apocalypse..Oh well, just a little personal warning to my friends here I guess...a kid on opiates can really tear up a Family good. I live in Whitebread america, heartland.
Hats off to you, too bad the probabilities lead to grief for your bride. Both would be better off if he disappears and straightens himself out. He never will until HE WANTS to himself. Good luck.
Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony
http://m.vice.com/vice-on-hbo-outtakes/kicking-heroin-with-an-ibogaine-c...
It is possible to reduce withdrawal symptoms by 50% - 90% using neuro electric therapy. Simple non invasive electric stimulation of the brain.
This method has been used in Scotland, England and the US since about 1980. Pete Townsend was cured of multiple addictions in the early 80s, and so have many other people.
http://www.drmeg.net/net.htm
http://www.netdevice.net/aboutnet.php
Treatment not only eases withdrawal from drugs, after treatment an addict no longer gets a kick from drugs or feels the need for them.
A lot gets stolen but not necessarily by the junkie. My own experience with it is with a hardworking relative who had been in an auto accident and was handed a bunch of oxy. Short time later got crunched by a tree he was cutting down. Doctors hand out more oxy. Doesn't even know he is addicted. Starts to feel shitty. Goes to the doctor. More oxy. Before too long you have an addiction spiralling out of control. Good person, good life, gone down.
Progressives Policies "cause" this shit. Bloomberg and now the dirtbag that NYC just voted in.
Watch the violent crime rates to rise next! It will be back to Pre 90's when the annual murder rate there was in the thousands!
Look at the leadership after Giuliani and you have your answer......
Progressivism is to create slaves...nothing more nothing less.
You call Bloomberg a progressive? If so, you don't know what you are talking about, Mikey.
#ish revolution.
Bit of a stretch to draw that conclusion.
Deaths at the nadir of afghan production 6.4 deaths today 6.2
Weekend moron shift at Durden hq.
Get this shit propaganda out of here.
I like how the opium cultivation is positively correlated with US GDP.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fa1HeYiuMMY/UM3TyNp9F2I/AAAAAAAAX8E/U9TN_vyRD...
Bullshit. This has everything to do with the DEA's massive and coordinated crackdown on prescription pills over the last year and not fucking Afghanistan. Afghanstan has been sending metric tons of heroin here for decades... before, during and after the war. Anybody that wants to shoot heroin can get it as easily as buying a beer. It's not like there are suddenly people trying heroin becuase there is more of it shipped here. More is being shipped here because the demand as spiked because pills are significantly harder to get. The reason for the rash of ODs is because lots of surburban dickheads that have been poping oxy and vicodin suddenly can't get thier controlled, reliable-dosage pills after the DEA crackdown. In order to keep from getting dope sick they're shooting up heroin now. They're inexperienced and clueless about the strengh of what they're shooting and they're killing themselves.
Thsi isn't a function of the Afganistan War. This is a function of prohibition and the War on Drugs.
In case you missed it FedEx was indicted for drug dealing because they shipped oxy.
They are fighting it, hopefully they win but what an absolute fucking joke the sheep still support this racket. God awful waste of money and life and now they want to start filling prisons with doctors and legal drug takers.
Fucking jerks.
Good lord. So I guess we'll kiss that pharmacy by mail stuff goodbye eventually, right? Seriously, Fedex isn't going to put in such layers of bureaucracy to try and sort out "legitimate" prescriptions from not. Just a flat out "we don't ship that anymore". Or is that someone's plan to keep low-cost competition from reaching the US consumer? Or at least waiting rather anxiously for the postman instead of the Fedex guy.
As for the overdoses, I'm surprised in a metro area that large that it's only a little over 1 per day avg. The outlier is 2009-2011 when it was low. As for Afghan opium, most of that is heading to Europe, of course stopping first in Russia, which has really seen a spike in heroin use. If hispanics are OD'ing more, I'd reckon the source would be Central/S.America.
BTW, how come it's all labeled "unintentional overdose"? How many people left a note saying "I'm ending it all by overdosing heroin"?
BTW, how come it's all labeled "unintentional overdose"?
DEA and CDC bullshit propaganda.
Everybody gets blood alcohol levels. 80 or 100 and you are in DUI range , 200 usually means you are blitzed and 400 for many/most people means you will likely be dead. But if someone drinks all the time, that someone can be walking and talking at a level of 400.
Point is that you should never allow just the drug level to be the be all end all as cause of death. People have been up to alcohol levels of 1500 and lived to tell about it. How many people die of alcohol poisoning per year? Not many. Most die because they drink and do something stupid: aspirate after vomiting, staying out in the cold, not eating, driving drunk ETC.
The government in its manipulative ways uses the term "unintentional overdose" to describe people whose blood alcohol is around 200 and uses the level of 400 to say alcohol is the cause of death in a person. It is a bullshit designation to manage the numbers the way the government wants them.
What a heroin overdose should be is really simple. Heroin peaks in 10 minutes after injected IV. Its main toxicity is respiratory depresson. So if someone shoots up and dies ten minutes later because they stopped breathing, that is a heroin overdose. Trouble is that is only one in four heroin overdoses. Does anyone really know why there was an overdose? Hell no. It could have been suicide or just a really pure batch or miscounting the dosage by the user. But this is put in the intentional overdose category.
The other three out of four deaths are put in the "unintentional overdose" category. It is just people with heroin at non-toxic levels who died which is bullshit.
Every pathology study says the same thing with illegal drugs and death: Don't rely on drug levels to determine cause of death and certainly not to determine the motivation of the user. But that is exactly what the government does.
In fact, the government has wanted the overdose deaths to be higher so they are running drug screens on pepole shot in the head. So if you shoot up heroin and get shot in the head, your death will be listed as a death associated with the use of heroin. The media changes the phrase "associated with" into "due to" to spook Americans.
And in the fine print, the CDC lists drug overdose deaths as "estimates", and the media conveiently leaves out that word as well.
The epidemic of deaths due to prescription drug overdose is a counting exercise, a means for the CDC and DEA to seize even more money and power than they have already.
Diagonosing a death as being due to a drug overdose or the motivation of the drug user is not a cut and dry exercise, but that doesn't stop our government for trottng out stats to promote their agenda.
If anyone knows drugs it is Elvis.
He was talking about them the other day.
yeah at the pharmacy near my house.
Funny the atheists in government depend on the Christ Calvary to legitimize their absolute control.
Psychopaths and Psychobabble. What a team!
BINGO!
I agree with the dopesick..wouldnt wish those withdrawal symptoms on anyone even the banksters...oh wait yeah i would..
Iriestx:
Uai!
With all respect I have for animals, you're a Tapir!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bhZty8S6ZM
Surely you have missed many history classes in high school and also some geography lessons.
ZeroHedge is not for freshmen, believe me.
More heroin flowing into North America is from Columbia. Heroin is the #1 cash crop export from Columbia and only Marijuana and Cocaine together surpass it in sales. Google 'mini subs of Columbia or Ecuador to see the extent of effort the cartels will go to to export the drugs.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2086....
Drug laws just make the black market that much more lucrative.
And for the police-prison-industry
Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys had the governments of Reagan and Thatcher discussing 'pump up your drug supply'. I was a kid then and thought it was funny, but knowing what we now know about the government and its meddling in every aspect, I don't think its funny anymore.
Nah Nah Nah Nah, Nah Nah Nah Nah, Goodbye!
All drugs should be legal and those that die should be considered the consequences of Darwinism. After a couple of generations this shit will sort ifself out.
Hey Hey Hey
Having several junkies in my family and 'friends' group, I just want to say....
I concur, 100%
Yeah, buzzarsluck, I also agree with that attitude, which I describe as the "radical redneck" approach to drug addiction problems. All those drugs should be cheap and abundant, and people should learn to live with that, rather than have to learn to live within systems of artificial scarcity, that make everything way worse!
Yes, and with a stronger more cerebral gene pool that will practice slightly elevated moderation..
Thin the Herd through natural self induced actions. We are all casket bound including delusionals that believe in spirits. Why interfere with someone's life experiences? Farqued up psychopaths can't be happy unless they're shitting in their neighbor's grits.
What happened to the Holy Ghost? Did he die?
Anarchy Unrules!
Dwarinism
"Daddy, what are poppies?"
"A source of drugs and funding for the CIA, and an excuse for the persecution and oppression of the American people and a way to benefit the prison-industrial-complex, honey."
"Daddy, what is coca?"
"A source of drugs and funding for the CIA, and an excuse for the persecution and oppression of the American people and a way to benefit the prison-industrial-complex, honey."
An American, not US subject.
MIC
/ \
PIC -- OIC
RTFB
RTFB
preach it, broheem!
Drug war as effective and as poisonous as Prohibition. Same solution, legalize.
thomas satz takes it a step further; he's like, 'don't even legalize (because that entails a legal bureaucracy) -- instead, just wipe all drug laws off of the books. turn it into a non-issue as far as law is concerned.'
Bullshit.
It's not heroin overdose it's shit heroin overdose. It's bad junk.
Yeah the Taliban were good at stomping down poppies.
If you weren't brainwashed by the drugs are bad McKay line of shit your banker drug dealers sell you to keep the price up you might notice there is not only no fucking correlation with the charts you posted, but the number of overdosed was higher in 2001-2002 than it is now.
Gish where'd they get the heroin the Taliban McKay?
ZeroFail.
The Taliban stomp the poppies. The Americans protect the poppies.
You should be able to buy heroin from a licenced pharmacist.
Edit: Removed comment - If you exclude actors, the rate is not too bad. 1 up 1 down vote.
Racial and age breakdown?
I was hoping they were all adults. I warned an adult the other day about using Chew. He said, "I know" He was hoping it was only temporary.
That was nice social intercourse for "fuck off".
He was spitting on the sidewalk every 5 feet. I turned around 15 seconds later, caught up to him and his friends, and apologized. They were cool.
"the Department of Mental Hygiene"
I thought it was called the Department of Education?
Where you go, fuck everything.
Ass: Wladimir Putin.
Uai!
Invade Bolivia and technology to acquire, produce closer cocaine.
Afghanistan invade and distribute heroin worldwide.
Invade Iraq and Libya for oil.
The best marijuana was in South America and today is medicine.
Invade Russia and import the Krokodil, the United States does not want it?
hehe.
Now wait a minute. You mean that the Forbes-Kerry oligarchy that has a history of running opium for 400 years has a family member as the US Secretary of State and Afghan opium production is the highest it has ever been...tell me it ain't so.
Yea, but at least they died free, of their own choice, on the good stuff. Not the shitty Mexican black tar all the hopeless junkies were all sick & still kicking off before B4, when Bush 43 got Marlboro-Phillip's first boots on Afghanistan.
Life is hard. You can't handle it, I'm sorry, but this is a zero sum game. Rags to riches to rags again, thats the song of Gaia. Tell it to the noosphere. Listen to the wind, kola. Listen to the ZH 2 minute hate pumping blog troll armies. Listen to Al Sharpton's ubiquitous race hustling bullshit, or the other pimps of vicious, untenable, servile social systems, including all the MSM bastards, but you have to walk your own path, learn your own lessons and mise your own stack.
And you're better off for it. If I protect you, what happens to you when I'm gone? If I do my best but its not enough in this ever changing crime scene, who will you blame? The brutes who violated you, or me? What if you become a brute? What does that make me, the fool who made you possible?
By what right? To what purpose?
No shortage of brutes. Extreme shortage of external saviors. Jesus? One off. Edison? About every 80 years - where the school isn't crippled by Common Core penguins, then your culture is doomed. Have you actually studied what the monks who practiced penance did to themselves and were admired for, in the east and the west? Same sick self abuse.
Orwell had it right. So did HG Wells. Except for one thing. They wrote in the context of linear scientific understanding: the mechanical universe. All was known, this is our fate in this finite box, blah blah. Scientific breakthroughs since then made them all obsolete.
THERE IS NO BOX
Drugs add to culture. Music, art, theater, technology, especially scientific breakthroughs. Free the Shaman!
Anarcho-syndicalism is what our agrarian ancestors pursued as the ideal balance of social relationships. Unlike hierarchical despotism not only is it voluntary, it's atomic: no catastrophic blowouts are possible. When failed cells disintegrate, the members integrate to other cells, bringing their experience & wisdom. Negative experiences add to the momentum, not severe liabilities as our system of valuation teaches.
Scientific breakthrough is unmanageable. Ask Schmidt or Gates. If you can. If you're not Zuckerberg or Balmer and you think you should be on this short list, put yourself on it.
The royals invest in predictions. Anything that rocks their boat is undesirable. You've seen Yellen's work.
One fiat to rule them all, inflation to bind them... and the NSF to gate the outliers.
monad:
With all humility, shot the hat to you!
Few here have sensitivity to write, most conversations and realize Wall Street not know distances, customs and legends.
It comes down to video screens when in sitting in comfortable chairs, this is not life.
One thing caught my attention:
"There is no shortage of crude. Extreme scarcity of external saviors."
I fully agree as to politicians, both here in America and in Europe, lack political.
A guy CIA publicly claim is better to put a bullet in the head of a Russian president, to me is an act of war.
Winter is coming in Europe, better wait.
hehe.
Your translation requires translation.
May be chemically induced. OK by me..
Likely not a native English speaker.
monad for the win!
"So why do we say that any of the above tragic events is a direct consequence of US presence in Afghanistan? Well, because while the US may be getting out of Afghanistan, it has been there since 2001. And what has happened to Afghan opium cultivation during the period of implicit US occupation?"
You just can't make this stuff up.
Just blow the dams that caused the increase in poppy growing and get the hell out of there. If they need every square inch to grow food they will have no poppy crop.
dont die in the war on terror
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lol
i guess this means we should make our own heroin then?! most everyone ignored this 'science' news from this week. but if pfizer or other companies strike a deal with the cia, they can still potentially upend global drug production and sales. admittedly, the cia won't have black ops off blaance sheet money for which they don't need to ask congress----
but seriously-----couldn't prfizer just do a backdoor deal with them? when you look at how inefficient popee plants are at making opiates. a synthetic process could take stock chemicals and in less than a 100 acre corporate park, you could easily make 10x the global production of heroin and other opiates inf you wanted. the key of course is in getting the chemistry right. but opiates are now cannabinoids they are MUCH more simple, and as such, this might be a reality soon.
no joke, this coudl be serious
http://www.designntrend.com/articles/18572/20140827/researchers-create-s...
War on crack and coke stopped thousands of deaths from overdosing as well as customary drug deal killings. War on oxy has retarded sales. Onward Christian soldiers fighting heroin sales.
War on crack and oke caused thousands of deaths.
They must be all going to Jersey City for the primo dope and can't handle it.
"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!" - George W. Bush
In the end good heroin is the only thing will will get out of this economic recovery.
"Department of Mental Hygiene" WTF?
Very good news that the heroin addicts are dieing in greater numbers - how can we accelerate the trend ? I would like to see the drug busters intercept shipments and insert toxins and poisons instead of busting the trafficers so that the addicts can be eradicated more quickly, ie garbage collection.
It is not the addicts you should kill but the Dealers, traffickers and money launders.
Why kill anyone? Suicide is not a crime. Freedom has the benefit of being free to be stupid. All laws are stupid laws that try to save someone from themselves. The biggest world wide drug dealers are the USA and the UK governments.
Let's also consider that Big Brother handing out looted goodies to people that addict them to free shit and is as debilitating and destructive as the strongest dope ever existed or manufactured.
Yeah, kill the dealers, I suggest that we study the supply chain. Don't continue cutting off the snakes' tails, but go for their heads. Good luck.
Why all the big interest in Afghanistan and surrounding areas, why so important that it has to be retaken so many times? Easy answer, Poppy is to Afghan as Cotton is to the Mississippi Delta.
Al Capp was a genius, Li'l Abner comic strip had a Sheriff Fearless Fosdick that based his being on killing good citizens before they could kill themselves by eating the poisoned beans. Oh , the irony of the parallels as it exists today, just poisonous drugs in lieu of the beans.
I agree that "Suicide is not a crime", and people should be free to kill themselves without interference from government, but the addicts commit zillions of crimes against the non-addicts to feed their addiction before they eventually die or get imprisoned. Addicts are a cancer on society, not the only one for sure, and all cancers must be eradicated.
Like being spoon fed your thoughts?
+1000
In a truly free society, you are free to be stupid and poor. Only .gov can be dumb enough to think that outlawing suicide and poverty is possible by passing laws.
Kill them all, starting with the consumers, and after addicts and potential addicts are terrified of using any narcotics because of highly publicised cases of how they die horribly from the inserted toxins and poisons, then we can start killing the suppliers, but not before the suppliers fulfill the essential role of distributing the toxins and poisons to the vermin.
And when you get in a car accident and need morpheine during the surgery, you can die a horrible death too. The laws are the problem not the drugs.
Start with killing yourself.
An addict has outed !
live and let die
Well this is bullshit....
We all know the "recent" rise in heroin and opiate related deaths is due the the lax opiate pharmaceticual laws pushed by Purdue Pharma. Eevryone moves from taking oxys to heroin once the script runs out, not because Obama has kept the war in Afghanistan going... ZH, you should be ashamed for trying to actually make this desperate connection. The recent rise in ZH popularity has lead to a decline in reputiable content. Stop shitting out articles just so you have something to show your new readers.
There are many ways to kill (your own) people (rich or poor)...
5-10 deaths per 100k people?
FFS, this is noise, and yes it's a tradgedy for those involved, but it's voluntary noise. People choose to take these risks.
As many or more people die simply from falling off or over stuff.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
Look at the chart. No difference now than almost 15 years ago. Lousy supporting details here for the topic on hand other than opium production has increased.
I can't help but noticing the deaths correspond to Fed money printing, and we are returning to pre-recession highs. Those Keynesians have fixed everything!
tylers, you can do better than this.
for example, show the comparable baseline period (i.e. the decade prior to US intervention in afghanistan.)
unfortunately, when you do that, the data tells a completely different story than your conclusion.
for nyc, the accidental overdose deaths for heroin were higher in the 90s (averaging approx. 500 p.a.) vs. 00s (< 400 p.a.):
source: https://www.uic.edu/com/mdphd/Retreat_2007/Bryant.pdf
sorry.
The reason heroin ODs are up in New York is because of the passage of the istop law. It includes an online prescription monitoring program. Before any doctor writes a prescription for a controlled substance he must by law consult this database. This has successfully resulted in a reduction in doctor shopping, ie patients seeing multiple docs for goodies esp oxycodone. This has reduced the availability of pills on the streets. What do you do when you can't get your pills...heroin.
1. It's called natural selection.
2. Who cares if folks want to be that stupid.
3. It's not a result of any war; that is just ridiculous inference.
I've noticed that I've been gaining weight over the past few years and I attribute it to the poppy seeds on my morning poppy seed bagel. Darn that Afghanistan occupation.
Why are you all arguing about the details of this article? Here is a fact that needs argument.
While in Afganistan, the US Military had the ability to destroy every poppy field and to keep on destroying it. We could have simply paid off the farmers not to grow heroin, but something else.
By US policy or acquiescence, the US Military was ordered to "stand down" on the destruction of the heroin producing fields.
How about some investigate journalism here MSM?
Who developed the hands off policy. Who transmitted the order to the Dept of Defense. What specific orders were given by the NATO commander in Afganistan, to major Troop Commanders on the Ground?
Anyone care to ask and find out about those questions?
Review last bottom chart. Specifically "2001" opium cultivation.
Your homework assignment for this Labor Day weekend:
1) What political forces drove Taliban to destroy nearly 90% of Afghan opium crops in 2001?
2) What year did US invade Afghanistan?
3) Any connections between question 1 and 2?
new york...drug addicts...are we supposed to feel sympathy?
There arent many repeat offenders.
I am truly shocked by what I am reading here from the ZH crew.
100% of the problem is the users, period. People don't need these pain killers. 99.99% of the people don't have real pain. It is all for their own recreation. If you stop heroin, they use oxy, stop that, and they huff paint or sniff glue. Bath salts, crack, meth, you name it. 100% of the problem is people wanting to feel better than they naturally do. Fuck them all and you all. I have no pity.
I took in 2 nephews last year because their dad went to prison for robbing banks to get money for oxy and the mom had all sorts of health issues from drug use. Those poor kids were left with no one because their parents chose their own enjoyment over the responsibility of raising their kids. Life's fucking tough, learning is tough, physical labor is tough, if you aren't smart enough to get a white collar job and you're not tough enough to get a blue collar job, then you are truly a useless sack of shit and no benefit to society. I made choices in my past to make the most of my public education and I make choices every fucking day when I don't get hammered or fucked up because my choice is to provide for my family. It's easy to just go and get fucked up because things are going your way. But don't look to me for pity or handouts.
Our society breeds these kind of people and these kinds of problems. Too bad the powers that be intentionally and deliberately created these conditions which made it inevitable that a certain percentage of the population would get caught in this lethal poisonous existence. pay 15 year old illiterate girls in government projects and with no family support -AFDC, food stamps, section 8 Housing, etc. and you are certain to to have a 19 year old with 5 different kids by 5 different fathers. Create an environment and culture where 16 year old middle class kids get hooked on K2 - and you will see the demonic moster that is created -with no heart, soul or ability to get out of the hell. Wait until it happens to your kid. You can blame the kid all you want, but this sick society, posioned deliberatley by Luciferian elites are more reponsible for most of these casualties in America. Figure out who controls and profits from the illegal drug trade -(HSBC, Wachovia, JP Morgan, the CIA to name a few) and you'll see who really deserves most of the blame.
Run for office where you can change the status quo and I will campaign for you.
Run for office where you can change the status quo and I will campaign for you.
"100% of the problem is the users, period."
A little bit black and white don't you think? We're not living free out on the prarie in New York are we. With all the propaganda and mind control that's pushed, these people aren't exactly making free, unhindered choices.
Given this shit ain't free, you are making the conscious decision to buy illegal drugs...
"99.99% of the people don't have real pain. It is all for their own recreation. "
Actually, studies show 85% of prescription pain medication is taken for pain; 15% of is used to get high.
By the way, what chemical in the brain goes up to cause the high?
Right, you don't know.
"I made choices in my past to make the most of my public education and I make choices every fucking day when I don't get hammered or fucked up because my choice is to provide for my family."
Tell you what, dipshit, seeing as how you think pain is all in the head, let me propse something to you. There is this term called allodynia, pain from non-painful stimuli. The classic example is a migraine headache. Someone with a migraine goes into a dark room because the light hurts their eyes. The answer to someone having a migraine for a dipshit like you is to turn their light on and say, "The light doesn't hurt my eyes. It shouldn't hurt yours." Do you think the migraine sufferer will thank you or want to kill you?
But the beauty now is that I can inject something in your back and give you allodynia for a week. Direct light will give you migraines, slightly cold weather will make your hands feel like they are frostbitten, your hot shower will feel like a thermal burn. So dipshit, seeing as how pain is all in your head, you up for it? You tough it enough to take that shot?
You know times are tougher when the masses need moar opiates!
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I see a noticeable uptick in ODs in the wealthy households.....so there is hope!
Good thing that evil marijuana is still illegal so we can keep folks safe.
Obviously the answer is more prescriptions from MDs!
Hey, the CIA has got to make a living too.
The "War in Drugs" goes full retard. They need to "clean up" the problem by busting low level dealers. That's always worked before.