Illegal drugs in America

[Donald Polish]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

 

[Siete]

Reagans war on drugs. How's that working out btw?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Care to throw an opinion in the OP there somewhere?

 

[Mr. H.]

That picture makes my nose run.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

Is it Russia that is the no. 1 nation in the world for worst alcohol problem? Or was that Poland? Moldavia? That region? That was in a recent report I believe. Would you know anything about that, Donald?

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Care to throw an opinion in the OP there somewhere?

He hates America and longs for the mother country. How could you of all people have missed that?

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Pharmaceutical companies are America's greatest drug threat.

 

[Menerva Lindsen]

Pharmaceutical companies are America's greatest drug threat.

The commercial environment is getting harsher, as healthcare payers impose new cost constraints on healthcare providers and scrutinise the value medicines offer much more carefully. They want new therapies that are clinically and economically better than the existing alternatives, together with hard, real-world outcomes data to back any claims about a medicine’s superiority.
Pharma’s output has remained at a stable level for the past decade. Using the same discovering and developing processes, there’s little reason to think its productivity will suddenly soar.

 

[Katzndogz]

We have a people so worthless and hopeless that their lives are not worth living unless they can get high.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Is it Russia that is the no. 1 nation in the world for worst alcohol problem?

No. It's Fresno State University in California.

 

[dblack]

 

[dblack]

If I ever had to go to war, I suppose I'd wanna be on drugs. That's all I'm sayin'.

 

[waltky]

He got the idea from the Franklin Co. sheriff in Kentucky...

New York sheriff encourages drug dealers to turn in rivals
Jan. 8, 2016 -- A New York sheriff posted a message to local drug dealers encouraging them to turn their peers in to police.

Cayuga County Sheriff's Office posted a photo to Facebook urging drug dealers in the area to provide police with information about their competitors. "Is your drug dealing competition costing you money?" the message from Sheriff Dave Gold states. "We offer a free service to help you eliminate your drug competition; report your competition to us!"

A MESSAGE TO DRUG DEALERS FROM SHERIFF DAVE GOULD:

A sheriff in Syracuse's Calgary County offered local drug dealers the opportunity to eliminate their competition by turning them in to police​

The post directs potential informants to the department's anonymous tip center and requests the address, phone number, vehicle and time of operation of competing drug dealers.

New York sheriff encourages drug dealers to turn in rivals - UPI.com

 

[jwoodie]

What is this, the druggie forum?

 

[Timmy]

Pharmaceutical companies are America's greatest drug threat.

Word. All this opioid shit right now . All those addicts started off wh a prescription .

 

[Contumacious]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

EXCUSE ME DUMB ASS

WHY IS "DRUG ABUSE AND ADDICTION" A PROBLEM.?

ACTUALLY THE PROBLEM IS THE NATIONALIZATION OF PAIN - PAIN MANAGEMENT IS A POLICE MATTER - GO FIG


.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Pharmaceutical companies are America's greatest drug threat.

Word. All this opioid shit right now . All those addicts started off wh a prescription .

not all, but most do.
Im not sure I would put all the blame on the Pharmaceutical companies though, it does take a doctor to prescribe that medication in the first place.

 

[waltky]

Reuters investigation spurs House bill...

U.S. bill targets babies born dependent on opioids
Wed Mar 23, 2016 - A bill that aims to protect babies born to mothers who used heroin or other opioids during pregnancy was introduced on Wednesday in the House as part of the government’s response to a Reuters investigation.

The bipartisan measure would require federal and state governments to do a better job of monitoring the health and safety of babies born drug-dependent. Last week – and also in response to the Reuters investigation – a similar bill moved to the Senate floor and the U.S. Health and Human Services Department pledged reforms. “We must do everything we can to safeguard the most vulnerable among us,” Representative Lou Barletta, a Pennsylvania Republican, said in a statement on Wednesday. Barletta is the bill's prime sponsor.

Reuters found that 110 U.S. children who were exposed to opioids while in the womb later died preventable deaths at home – and that thousands more each year do not receive social supports required by a 2003 law. The news agency also found that no more than nine states comply with this law, which calls on hospitals to alert social workers whenever a baby is born dependent on drugs.

Heather Padgett dresses her daughters Kinsley and Kiley at her home in Cincinnati, Ohio July 16, 2015. Until she got clean last August, Heather was part of what the Centers for Disease Control has called a heroin epidemic - a 100 percent rise in heroin addiction​

The House bill would require states to report each year the number of infants identified as born drug-dependent, and the number for whom plans of safe care are developed. The bill also calls for the distribution of “best practices” to social workers developing plans of safe care for the newborns and their caretakers. “This legislation puts families at the center of care and ensures that babies and mothers affected by substance use disorders get the help they need,” the lead Democratic sponsor, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, said in a statement.

The bill follows a hearing last week in which Representative John Kline, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee and a cosponsor of the bill, quizzed a senior Obama administration official on the federal government’s enforcement of the 2003 law and the Reuters series. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell told Kline that her agency has revamped its policies and planned to be "more proactive" with states. Thus far, she said, HHS has directed South Carolina to resolve unspecified problems. All other states have been directed to update HHS by June on their social service efforts to help drug-dependent babies and their parents.

U.S. bill targets babies born dependent on opioids

 

[Agit8r]

The drug problem in the early 20th century (primarily in the American South) was almost entirely due to doctors prescribing highly addictive addictive drugs to treat chronic conditions. A lot like the opioid epidemic today, except that the latter is largely in the North.

 

[foggedinn]

Since the 19th century when Americans first discovered new wonder drugs like morphine, heroin, and cocaine, our society has confronted the problem of drug abuse and addiction.

When the 20th century began, the United States--grappling with its first drug epidemic--gradually instituted effective restrictions: at home through domestic law enforcement and overseas by spearheading a world movement to limit opium and coca crops. By World War II, American drug use had become so rare, it was seen as a marginal social problem. The first epidemic was forgotten.

During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs. With the drug culture exploding, our government developed new laws and agencies to address the problem. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was created to enforce federal drug laws. In the 1970s, cocaine reappeared. Then, a decade later, crack appeared, spreading addiction and violence at epidemic levels.

Today, the DEA’s biggest challenge is the dramatic change in organized crime. While American criminals once controlled drug trafficking on U.S. soil, today sophisticated and powerful criminal groups headquartered in foreign countries control the drug trade in the United States.
So the conclusion appears: Somebody in administration earns own money.
Do you know anything about American drugs??

This a pretty standard view. It is the paradigm we have been operating under for decades.
In most communities with an active undercover police presence, drug dealing is a state sponsored monopoly.
Deception, manipulation, tricks, traps, and snares are an efficient way to fill prisons. This seems to be the goal.