Pictures from security cameras taken last summer near a methadone clinic in Baltimore show an apparent open-air market for prescription painkillers. Cash and pills exchange hands in the middle of the day around a busy bus stop.
The pictures put the country's opioid addiction crisis in full view, and today's pill abuser is likely tomorrow's heroin user.
"(I) started using prescription pills, which led to heroin, which, you know, put me where I am at now," said a woman who asked the I-Team to identify her as Tiffany.
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It sounds like a pretty far jump from taking pills to shooting up heroin. I'm not sure what would push you that far.
ReplyDeleteKeep living in a bubble.
DeletePrescription meds such as OxyContin are opioids derived from the opium plant, the same as heroin. The prescriptions are legal patented forms of heroin in a pill. You get hooked on a pain med at $20 a pill or more, and then someone tells you about heroin being a longer, more intense high for a fraction of the price. Educate yourself buddy!
DeleteIt's called they get addicted to the pills never realizing what it does to them. They think its safe because its regulated. They end up spending and selling everything to support the expensive pill addiction and then learn they can get the same high or fix from heroin because it is the same thing. So if don't see yourself as stupid enough to ever try heroin then don't try pills because it is the same thing.
ReplyDeleteAfter we invaded Afghanistan, it quickly became the #1 opium producing country in the world.
ReplyDeleteDespite so many soldiers, we can't control stationary fields of poppy plants?
Somehow, all those poppies get processed and imported right into the USA. How is it we can't control Afghanistan's borders, our borders, or ANY of the thousands of miles in between?
I think this is the result of our own government. But maybe I'm wrong.
Your right. Our government helped the poppy growers and excused it by saying that it was nessasary for the economic stability of the region during our regime changes. That if the farmers didn't have the income they may turn to Jihad.
DeleteThere was a Chinese dynasty so powerful it basically ruled the world for 200 years. It was finally brought down when the whole population started smoking opium (raw Heroin).
Sure is funny ain't it. the Taliban have pretty much eliminated the heroin trade I think we're being lied to the real reason we went back to Afghanistan was because of the poppy plus Rare Minerals and maybe your oil but primarily heroin it's what funds the black side of our government
DeleteBut oh big Pharma is here to help us they are our friends they only wish 2 string us out on drugs, Cure Nothing, steal all of our money.
ReplyDeleteFinally someone educated, 405 got it
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