Heroin addicts are dying from adulterated heroin.  Should we care?
594283
We should always care
856402
You answered your own question----they run out, they act desperate.  Leading a 'normal' life doesn't have you running in desperation for an escape of drugs.  They can think it's okay, but so does an alcoholic, a gambler etc.  The drugs will eventually eat away at their lives.  Hiding an addiction always does--it's time they woke up and faced life as themselves-not behind the mask of something that make them feel good for a while.
290217
Am I missing something here again:  Isn't 'speed' some sort of Amphetamine sulphate?.  Therefore I would suggest that if you overdosed, it would kill.  Still it would be far better than driving a car fast into a brick wall.
1081031
Drug users are nothing but trash anyways. They should all be locked up and kept away from others. All they do is ruin other people's lives.
969785
I've known of a person personally who killed his own wife because he told her to hold his money and not give it to him when he asked so he wouldn't buy drugs. She didn't and she's gone. I grew up around many people that used and are still using today over 20 years. There is nothing you can do but save yourself and walk away. More than likely, you've been telling them to leave it alone and they know the consequences. It's up to them. Don't be a victim and get your heart broken watching them kill themselves. THEY HAVE TO WANT TO STOP! Then you can help them by offering them information on different treatment programs. But until they want help, there is nothing you can do.
892099
"humiliation of peeing in a cup"???? how's that humiliating? If you pass, you get so much more money than the druggies get from the government.\nIf the dopeheads are addicted, how will they stop without money to get themselves clean? In the current system, they dopeheads use some of the money to stay alive and some to buy drugs. This way, they'll still die, but they'll die more humanely than druggies without any money who have to resort to lots of crimes to survive.
262408
When someone uses heroin regularly, that is, every day for more than a few weeks, they develop a physical dependence on the drug. When they stop using heroin, they experience withdrawal effects. These may include may include irritability, anxiety, muscle cramps, abdominal pains, chills, nausea, diarrhoea, sweating, sniffing, sneezing, weakness and insomnia. They begin within 12 hours of not using, peak after two to four days, and subside after about a week. Getting through this period, after which the body is no longer chemically dependent on heroin, is called detoxification, or 'detoxing'.
1003097
I think that most addicts are pulled to drugs because of problems in life and it is so sad to waste a life like that. No one can help a drug addict until they want help themselves just like alcoholics. Its a terrible thing I'm sure it is so scary to be hooked on something like that. I have had problems in life but never turned to drugs. Guess they are the weaker ones. I hate the ones who try to get drugs in school that is terrible. Now I agree with you on that I think those people should be given the death penalty for that because to get a kid hooked on drugs they have taken a life just like killing someone.
499500
you can't and don't waste your time, the addict cares about nothing but drugs, you aren't talking to them you are talking to drugs and the effects they have. that person is just a shell that is currently housing a monster who cares for nothing and nobody except where his next fix is coming from. the best thing you can do is educate yourself on addiction and talk to people (they have groups) of family and friends of addicts, these people have been there and done that. loving an addict is the equivalent of beating your head against a brick wall daily and wondering why it still hurts you everyday. until that person decides they want help anything you do does nothing but feed the addiction, when they decide to get help thats when they need love, until then its a waste of time and energy. its a harsh and horrible situation but you also have to remember its their choice, they chose to be in this situation and they choose to stay there everyday.
549606
Not directly through the use of it but people who traffic in it have been known to be killed by other drug dealers and sometimes by law enforcement. If a guy gets really high and does something truly stupid that results in his death then who is to say that he wouldn't have done the same stupid thing if he was straight? Nobody ever overdoses on pot, it's just not possible.
123822
Selling drugs is enough trouble by itself. The fact that someone dies for the drugs he sells could lead to murder 2. What you should do, at all times, is to let the law enforcement agencies that you know that someone sells drugs.
1030522
God bless that person for trying to fight the addiction of heroin.\nIt will be a tough battle for the rest of one's life.\n\nIf that person is not in a program, then he should get into a program and find a sponsor - someone whom he can call up when the desire becomes too great - for he cannot always fight this addiction on his own.\n\nThat person can also find hobbies and things to do to keep his mind occupied so he doesn't have the chance to think about heroin.\n\nIf he has friends who do drugs, he would be better off not having anything to do with those friends because those friends could lead him back to using.\n\nI will say prayers for him that he continues to live a clean life from now on.
1017605
oints of Interest:\n\n1.) TRIPLE MAXIMUM LETHAL DOSE EVEN FOR SEVERE ADDICTS: At least three days after his death, Kurt Cobain's blood contained 1.52 milligrams of morphine per litre (mg/L) plus traces of a "diazepam-like" substance. This level is widely known to represent three times the lethal dose of heroin, but it is not commonly understood that this level is three times the lethal dose even for severe heroin addicts. Generally, a blood morphine level of 0.5mg/L is caused by 75 mg - 80 mg of heroin, the established maximum lethal dose, even for severe addicts. A blood level of 1.52 mg/L generally indicates an original dose of approximately 225 mg - 240 mg of heroin.\n\n2.) INCAPACITATED OR DEAD BEFORE GUNSHOT: Large overdoses of heroin by heroin addicts are a phenomenon which is well understood. Research clearly shows that an overdose in the range of that received by Cobain would lead to immediate and complete incapacitation and/or immediate death.\n\n3.) OTHER FACTORS ENSURED OVERDOSE LETHALITY: The 1.52 mg/L blood morphine level does not compensate for the presence of diazepam, or Cobain's low body weight, both of which are well proven to substantially increase the lethality of the heroin.\n\n4.) CASE UNPARALLELED IN SUICIDE & OVERDOSE REPORTS: A review of 3586 suicides, including 760 violent suicides, shows no case involving both a gun and narcotic overdose of any kind, supporting theories regarding the absence or extreme rarity of violent suicide among addicts.\n\n5.) CASE CONSISTENT WITH HOMICIDE PATTERNS: A review of cases involving homicides shows many similarities with patterns in the Cobain case.\n\n6.) OTHER EVIDENCE INDICATES HOMICIDE: Officially acknowledged evidence exists which indicates the possibility of homicide, including a misleading missing persons report, postmortem credit card usage, handwriting discrepancies on the "suicide" note, and the lack of legible fingerprints on the weapon. It appears the police were prejudicially in favour of a suicide ruling, and that the coroner was involved in a conflict of interest predisposing him towards this major discrepancy in the evaluation of his findings.\n\n7.) CONCLUSION: HOMICIDE: The evidence indicates that a massive intravenous dose of heroin, and possibly a benzodiazepine, was administered to Cobain. The final of the two known injections incapacitated and/or killed Cobain, and the gunshot is evidence of a homicide staged to look like a suicide. The case should be re-opened by an independent investigatory body.\n\nSource(s):\nwwww.justiceforkurtcobain.com
673934
You are right it is killing everyone as well as destroying families. You have to understand something with this meth problem. This drug was being used heavily in war world 2. Methamphetamine was first synthesized in 1919 in Japan by the chemist A. Ogata. The method of synthesis was reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine.\n\nMeth was used by german soldiers to enhance there ability to fight a long battle. Now to this date our own military is using forms of this drug for our pilots doing bombing runs over Iraq and Afghan in the early stages of the war. Another problem is this stuff is so easy to make with your everyday household cleaners and effdirn. This has been getting alot of media coverage from a local level. But as far as national coverage your right not enough. I think by far if there was a name for pure evil..this would be it. I call it the devil drug.. Maybe in someways if the nation goes national with this they will expose our usage of this drug in our government. Maybe that is why there is not national coverage. The only thing we can do is work out of our communitys to warn kids and teens about the dangers of this drug. I know first hand what it can do because I am a former user of this drug. I know of what state that is using commericals to make a postive affect to stop the problem in there state. How ever it is not catching on in others. But believe that all the local police and task forces are working over time to help stop this problem.\n\nI can only hope and pray that something is gonna bust this thing wide open on a natioanl level. But there are many risks involved if our own government uses forms of this drug. This was a great question... I just hope many will take it as serouis are you.  =)
723811
Drug addiction is a tragedy. A few of us do overcome it but the majority don't. Very sad for your friend. My sympathy.
659492
It is true, she lost her husband ( a cop who had no idea about her meth use) and she nearly lost her life.  People feel sorry for her because she is fighting the addiction and because she has publically admitted the addictin.  Addiction is a disease remember, and everyone of us has it in some form or another be it drugs, cigarettes, sex, money, coffee, food, or barbie dolls.  Compassion is all that seperates us from the wild animals of the world so please exercise it.
963502
Not me, but I have known many. I have known physicians, including four surgeons, nurses, a lawyer. I have known many others, but I used these professions to say that drug addiction afflicts many people from all walks of life. Unfortunately, there is nothing that you can do. He/she must decide for themselves that they want  to try to beat the addiction. This mostly comes later than sooner.