Our favorite foreign born former A list mostly television actress from a hit network show who crashed and burned is hooked on heroin. Just another step further into oblivion for her.
Too bad no presidential candidate cares to address the rising tide of heroin deaths and how virtually nothing is being done about it because there's no funding. Walk in any convenience store in thousands of towns across the country at 2:00 AM and you're just as likely to trip over a dead, OD'd kid as your favorite brand of iced tea.
I agree @Kno. ( and I know it has a special personal resonance with you:( that's the proper example too. Road trip anywhere and stop in for gas late or whatever - sometimes broad day depending where you are. As for the guess-Misha Barton is getting old for these but she FB and was A I guess. Plus Enty implied she loves getting naked on opiated so...
The family violence and the sexual assaults and the lack of safety walking down the street affects the masses though. Even the overdoses affect other people besides the addict - family, paramedics, emergency room staff, schoolkids who find the body on the way to school etc. And all because some selfish idiot thought it would be ok to try drugs.
Narcan (sp?) is being widely used now. Many of the EMTs and Police carry it where I live. Although I am really glad it is saving lives, I've heard about the other side of it from a friend who is a RN. This person has told me that addicts have a false sense of security because of it and assume if they OD they will be saved. From what this friend has told me, Narcan also washes the opiates out of your system and makes it easier for a fatal OD to happen after you're treated. Apparently this is what happened w/the Purple one.
Narcan does not "wash" opiates out of the system. It binds to the same receptor in the brain as an opioid agonist but induces an opposite pharmacological response, triggering withdrawal symptoms.
Someone who hasn't experienced withdrawal symptoms in a while may be tempted to take more heroin than usual to feel high again, which might trigger another overdose, but that's a behavioral, not a pharmacological, side effect.
Too bad no presidential candidate cares to address the rising tide of heroin deaths and how virtually nothing is being done about it because there's no funding.
ReplyDeleteWalk in any convenience store in thousands of towns across the country at 2:00 AM and you're just as likely to trip over a dead, OD'd kid as your favorite brand of iced tea.
mischa barton
ReplyDeleteI agree @Kno. ( and I know it has a special personal resonance with you:(
ReplyDeletethat's the proper example too. Road trip anywhere and stop in for gas late or whatever - sometimes broad day depending where you are.
As for the guess-Misha Barton is getting old for these but she FB and was A I guess. Plus Enty implied she loves getting naked on opiated so...
Mischa or Mesha or however you say it.
ReplyDeleteSo sad. Opiates are the devil.
Sanders and Clinton talked much about heroin deaths in Maryland and others areas
ReplyDeletehttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/03/hillary_clinton_opioid_epidemic_has_led_people_to_be_more_vulnerable_to_heroin_coming_across_the_border.html
ReplyDeleteIf it's Micha & he is referring to the OC, that was on the WB/CW was it not? Enty usually refers to that as "almost network."
ReplyDeleteit was on fox
ReplyDeleteAh - thanks! (Too lazy to look it up ) :-)
ReplyDeleteThat is because drug overdoses are not a threat to the masses--only to those that partake in the drug culture.
ReplyDeleteShe is foreign born?
ReplyDeleteYup. London
ReplyDeleteAh, but the reasons such a drug culture exist are horrifying, and absolutely do need to be dealt with.
ReplyDeletePaz de la Huerta but it's hardly surprising
ReplyDeleteBut opioids are the soothing hand of God if you have terminal cancer.
ReplyDeleteSpaz was never A list or anyones' fave
ReplyDeleteOh Fuck..well then..
ReplyDeleteHaha..Spaz...that's not nice...haha..so juvenile...lol
ReplyDeleteThe family violence and the sexual assaults and the lack of safety walking down the street affects the masses though. Even the overdoses affect other people besides the addict - family, paramedics, emergency room staff, schoolkids who find the body on the way to school etc. And all because some selfish idiot thought it would be ok to try drugs.
ReplyDeleteNarcan (sp?) is being widely used now. Many of the EMTs and Police carry it where I live. Although I am really glad it is saving lives, I've heard about the other side of it from a friend who is a RN. This person has told me that addicts have a false sense of security because of it and assume if they OD they will be saved. From what this friend has told me, Narcan also washes the opiates out of your system and makes it easier for a fatal OD to happen after you're treated. Apparently this is what happened w/the Purple one.
ReplyDeleteNarcan does not "wash" opiates out of the system. It binds to the same receptor in the brain as an opioid agonist but induces an opposite pharmacological response, triggering withdrawal symptoms.
ReplyDeleteSomeone who hasn't experienced withdrawal symptoms in a while may be tempted to take more heroin than usual to feel high again, which might trigger another overdose, but that's a behavioral, not a pharmacological, side effect.