Recently I've been made aware that there's been an increased number of young people dying in my area due to a bad mix of heroin that's been around. Someone's been cutting it with such a large quantity of anesthesia - supposedly fentanyl - that it stops the heart/breathing before the user even gets the chance to pull the needle back out of their arm.
All of these people are being found the same way - alone - and usually still holding the needle. I'm aware of one person that managed to survive the ordeal, only because they were almost immediately discovered by someone with experience using resuscitation techniques (CPR & such). It was bad.
Something to really piss me off more -
Heroin has become easily available to middle-class high school kids and young people around NY, NJ and surrounding areas.
Fearful of being randomly drug-tested for marijuana - which stays in the system for quite some time, kids are skipping pot smoking altogether, turning instead to more dangerous and addictive stuff to get high!
Furthermore, allowing so much illegal immigration for so long, means that plenty of cartel-connected people have positioned themselves for business in ordinary neighborhoods where heroin was never particularly sought after before. For the longest time, in order to obtain heroin it was necessary to travel into the most dangerous parts of "the city" and wait for some scummy guy that hates you to show up. On a good day, the dealer had people positioned around the area to make sure you didn't get mugged of your purchase as you were leaving the area (bad for business). If you've ever listened to Lou Reed's "Waitin' for my man", it's an accurate description of what you had to be willing to put up with, until apparently pretty recently.
So, thanks to the drug war, some kids are using heroin rather than smoking pot and risking a failed drug test!
And thanks to unrestrained illegal immigration and sanctuary cities, heroin is plentiful and easy to obtain in lots of "nice" places, where it never was before!
Anyone els seeing increased heroin use and deaths - I would be interested to hear which part of the country you are from.
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