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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
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 Posted - May 11 2014 : 9:53:06 PM
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I just returned from a late night run to Walgreens. When I got there
the manager of the store was running towards a car in the parking lot.
I heard someone say "Heroin" and the manager ran back into the store.
I got out of my car and walked in and he was calling for help. I got a few things and the police were getting there as I walked out. Then the ambulance arrived, temporarily blocking me in. They put the person in the ambulance, which took off for the hospital, so I was able to back out and leave. Our local paper has been running lots of articles on how much of a problem heroin is around here. and people die from overdoses. I hope this poor person survives and gets some sort of help. And I hope the person who gave them the heroin goes to jail.It's bad stuff and has ruined so many lives.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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rphelps4
True Blue Farmgirl
620 Posts
roxanna
westport
indiana
USA
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Posted - May 12 2014 : 04:50:18 AM
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I know I work with a lot of young people and I am shocked how many of them talk about one of their friends dying from an overdose! Roxanna
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churunga
True Blue Farmgirl
3986 Posts
Marie
Minneapolis
MN
USA
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Posted - May 12 2014 : 10:59:23 AM
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This is a tragedy. So many physicians have prescribed opiates such as oxycodone for pain that many have found that when it no longer works they switch to heroin. Here in Minnesota, the legislature is trying to decide if it is okay for regular people to obtain a medication which can easily reverse a heroin overdose so they can be stabilized enough to get them to the hospital.
Marie, Sister #5142
Farmgirl of the Month May 2014
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4822 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
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Posted - May 12 2014 : 11:07:58 AM
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My best friend's nephew died of a heroin overdose a few years ago. He had just graduated law school and was working for a large firm in GA. Sadly the pusher he was using sold tainted heroin to a lot of people and in a two week period about 10 people died because of it. His family was devastated and started a foundation in his name to help others addicted to this horrible drug.
I pray that some day heroin and all these horrible drugs will leave our country forever, but sadly that will probably never happen.
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - May 12 2014 : 3:20:33 PM
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Very sad.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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Witness to a tragedy
