Comments on: Exposing the Media Bullshit Behind New York’s Supposed Heroin Epidemic

By: LibertineNY

LibertineNY — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:30:56 +0000

I personally found this article rather interesting. It’s true that the media hypes up fictional or minute drug epidemics for profit but in the case of opiates personal observations these past few years have led me to believe that there is, indeed, a spike in use. Over the past few years, a good chunk of the people I knew (I’m 21 just to give a sense of the age group which I am referring to) have become addicted to prescription opiates. I blame the pharm industry for normalizing these drugs and labeling them as “medications” lulling people into a false sense of security when taking them. What’s been happening lately is a lot of them have been finding painkillers to be too pricey of an addction to entertain (roxicodone here goes for 16+ and opana er 40 mg goes for over 20) and have been switching over to heroin for practical purposes. I think there is most certainly a spike in use but that spike stems from doctors over prescribing pain medications and a uninformed population thinking they are safer to use than they actually are.

By: T-bone

T-bone — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:14:17 +0000

Looks like the CIA are back doing their old tricks again.Flooding the streets with Afgan smack so the can fund their covert operations and keep it all hidden away from congress!

By: aleke

aleke — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:07:03 +0000

@Dan

Go away, Glenn Beck

By: Boris B.

Boris B. — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:22:56 +0000

Who is beautiful girl on top? I love her, I will mary her!

By: Snoop

Snoop — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:42:20 +0000

@29 “That sticky shit is acetylated opium latex…”

That’s like saying: “the powder in East Coast dope is Diacetylmorphine.” Well, yes and no, right? There’s alot of stuff in there as well, mannite and quinine and the like. Thing is, those cuts don’t collapse your veins.

By: mrbelding

mrbelding — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:12:39 +0000

Dan, you’re very stupid. Like so stupid it’s a miracle you can operate a keyboard.

Just because you’ve seen Panic in Needle Park twice and had a chippy for two months in 1998, doesn’t mean you’re the world’s foremost expert on heroin use.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:17:36 +0000

Whatever’s written in the comments doesn’t change the fact that this particular article is fictional, or at least partly made up, and by someone who doesn’t have such a great knowledge of heroin use. With all due respect, it’s not the first time in the eXile, it just used to be more obvious.

By: Not important

Not important — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:13:33 +0000

@32-

The hive has been gone for YEARS.

By: Antonio Garcia

Antonio Garcia — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:12:57 +0000

I saw the main picture to the article and wondered if that was a dramatization of a heroin addict or if the picture was a real heroin addict

By: chugs

chugs — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:40:36 +0000

31. tubalkain | October 25th, 2009 at 12:38 am

go to bluelight.ru and search. Even erowid.org might have a bit on it.

The hive and other sites would definitely. usenet probably does as well.

By: tubalkain

tubalkain — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:38:23 +0000

Chugs, can you elaborate on purifying street dope with acetone pls?

By: gary

gary — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:32:02 +0000

the commentors seem more interested in insulting each other than discussing the article..too bad

By: lol

lol — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:39:46 +0000

Sad. I no longer read the political reporting here, but I expected you guys to get shit right at least when it comes to heroin. Black tar is not “highly cut with sticky chemical additives”. That sticky shit is acetylated opium latex, because the makers skip a step in purifying it, to cut costs. There’s more to say on the subject, but fuck it, I won’t do your jobs for you.

By: Padilla

Padilla — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:52:51 +0000

I was wrong in my previous post (#5)

Druggies outraged and endlessly whining because others won’t take seriously their tough man bullshit are very comical indeed.

I stand corrected.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:38:42 +0000

Carlos, we don’t care why you keep coming back.
You egocentric pseudo-intellectual self-hating
pendejo.

Go back to fucking Dan in the ass. I can hear him crying for it from here.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:27:15 +0000

Vor,

Huh? How do you get from self-pitying junkies to man-on-man ass love? Is that something you think about constantly–the rough embrace of a hulking man lover? Wow. You should do heroin. If that’s what’s crawling around in your brain, then I won’t blame you for doing so like I do all the other crybaby white guys. I’ll gladly mail you a spoon, a lighter, a syringe, some tubing, and a Playgirl. Just ease up, dude.

By: Butohara

Butohara — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:06:51 +0000

So, given the increasingly fascistic bent of this country, how long before we see such “undesirables” as painted in the article? Perhaps the Uberbama govt will take the cue from China of past and execute all drug users and drug dealers as drags on society. Looking at the portrayals of these types, there would be little sympathy from the gen pop of Slaveland.

By: vor

vor — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:43:42 +0000

Hey Carlos
I’m betting you’d probably prefer being butt-slammed by a well-groomed, 6’2 1/2″, buffed, Navy Seal type rather than a black prison block mama. Am I right ?

By: Narcoleptic

Narcoleptic — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:47:31 +0000

I’ve worked with a lot of junkies, and ALL the old junkies agree — street heroin today sucks, at least on the west coast. “Black tar” is, as Matt says, shitty, shitty heroin that destroys your veins. In South Central, they call that stuff “dog food.” Heroin’s still cheaper on the street than Oxy and Lortab, but the guys with money usually prefer the stuff made in a pharmaceutical factory to the crap on the streets. People fucking up their lives by being junkies is a sad pathetic story, but it’s not a new story, and it’s not a news story.

By: mrbelding

mrbelding — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:21:03 +0000

Every once in a while a web commenter appears with that rare gift, for which he/she deserves to be singled out. To you Dan, and other commenters that surpass the ignorance of the average Breitbart.com reader, we salute you.