Now that's true right there now!! LOL, 'cause that was my thing back during my college days!! At 50 years of age, well it just ain't my thing nowadays!!
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OT: OK now, just how big a drug problem does N Myrtle have?
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Some of you are kidding yourselves if you think it’s a myrtle beach/Horry County problem. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that the addiction problem per capita is actually WORSE in the rural parts of the state.
I don't mind admitting that at 50, and post all the major surgeries I've been thru (heart, brain, back, dental), life can indeed hurt like a MoFu sometimes. Some of us need pain relief. Some. Of. Us.
You are fooling yourself if you don’t think it in Charleston ,Edisto,Frip HH. It’s everywhere.
I'm with you. I've had major back surgery and more importantly I have rheumatoid arthritis.I certainly don't have a drug addiction problem and don't think I ever will. But pain medicine (handled properly), makes life tolerable for me.
It sounds like you don’t understand it at all, if you believe 1) that opioid use occurs primarily in the “kid” demographic, and 2) that it’s self correcting as soon as the people who are currently addicted die. Like it’s suddenly going to stop being available and addictive, if only we could rid ourselves of the current addicts.
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Rheumatoid OMG!!! It's kickin in on my right knee and both ankles that twisted back in Jr. High School!! I know, I know - no such thing as Jr. High these days - but I'm 50!! Things used to be that way back in the 80's!!
I live in Surfside Beach, south of Myrtle and have to drive through Myrtle to see my GF 3 or 4 days a week. There are tons of homeless people in Myrtle and I never drive through without seeing cops at a place of business like there was a breakin or something. Last summer's shootings and murders got a lot of bad press for the area. I have a friend who lives there and refers to it as Murder Beach.
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There's compelling evidence that those who manufacture opiods pushed the drugs out there (with the help of doctors, etc) despite knowing these drugs were highly likely to create addicts who may turn to illegal drugs.
I would argue that a more tolerant society is a good thing, overall. But then who am I too judge?
If by judging, you mean averring an opinion, then you have every right to do that. And I don't advocate a repressive society, but anytime choice is exercised, some results are excluded and others come to be. And each of us has to be ready to face the things that we ourselves cause to happen.
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