Who Can Argue

Be sure to use the left-right arrows on the photo to scroll to item 2 of 19 for a mug shot of a woman with a dubious name.

 

Crystal Metheny

 

That's pretty ****ed up. Yeah. I had to say it. 

The dollar sign tattoed on her throat -- advertising services?

Ugh!! Can't post what I'd like to post about the skank.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/ca...point-073231793.html

And yet.

LEGALLY dolled out.

Daily.

 

It is not clear why older adults have a higher rate of car accidents. Some speculate that vision loss or slowed reaction time plays a role. But a recent Canadian study suggests that a class of long-lasting prescription medications also may contribute to these accidents.

After studying records of nearly 225,000 people ages 67 to 84, researchers at McGill University in Montreal found a 45 percent increase in injury-causing car accidents in people who had been taking a long-acting group of benzodiazepines. These drugs often are prescribed to treat anxiety or insomnia. The medications associated with higher accident rates are the long-lasting ones, which can stay in the bloodstream for more than 24 hours.

The drugs associated with the higher accident rates include many popular medications, such as:

 

• Clonazepam (Klonopin)
• Diazepam (Valium)
• Clorazepate (Tranxene)
• Chlordiazepoxide (Libratabs)
• Flurazepam (Dalmane)

Other benzodiazepines are not as long-lasting. Shorter-acting drugs in this group include:

• Alprazolam (Xanax)
• Lorazepam (Ativan)
• Triazolam (Halcion)

Keep in mind, though, that the shorter-acting drugs also can impair driving and other skills. These medications have their strongest effects in the first hours after you take them.

 

http://psychcentral.com/lib/me...car-accidents/000426

Crazy what this country condones. I know getting to this point was gradual, but still, there should have been a point before now when people said 'enough is enough'. This is some of the trash we support at the cost of others who are truly in need.

Shocking Images Show 28-Year-Old Woman’s Transformation After She Got Hooked on Party Drugs

Mikaila Tyhurst, 28, became hooked on GBL in 2009. She suffered severe liver damage and has been placed on life support 15 times since her addiction began. She has also been taken to the hospital for treatment nearly 1,000 times over a four-year span.

Last March, Tyhurst, who is from Manchester, United Kingdom, went public about her addiction in an attempt to turn her life around for the sake of her young daughter.

At the time, she claimed she had been off the drugs for two years with the help of a detox program.

On Monday, however, Tyhurst pleaded guilty to assault, possession of a knife and theft, after she and two others seriously injured a man at his home in Lancashire, UK.

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 Lloyd Bell:

Yet there is still a massive following that all this **** should be legalised?

 

Yes Lloyd, amazing isn't it?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...-labs-skyrocket.html

Drugs are illegal now. So are you seriously trying to say that making drugs legal causes addiction? How can you logically come to that conclusion with the evidence right in front of you...you even posted it yourself. In a society that spends over 40 billion dollars a year fighting the "war on drugs", we still have people like Mikaila. I don't know about you, but if we made all drugs legal tomorrow I would not start using meth, crack, cocaine, or heroin. Are the laws all that is keeping you from using drugs Best?  The woman in your story is an addict. She would be an addict either way. The difference might be that she would get more help with her addiction if we turned our focus from punishment (which obviously doesn't work) to treatment.

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While I am for the states experimenting with legalizing marijuana, one must be careful of the other drugs.  The UK attempted legal prescription of narcotics such as the morphine and other opiates -- didn't work out well.

So, alcohol and opium based pain killers are legal, I know personally what these two legal substances do to families.  Where is all the free treatment for folks hooked on them? And I am not saying that treatment should be free for the dope head or drunk, but the way people in favor of legalizing marijuana and other illegal substances make it sound, there would be tons of money available to treat the dope heads and drunks.

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I don't think we should have to pay for any treatment for them, it rarely works anyway. Alcohol and drug addiction are NOT illnesses. What a stinking joke, we give them their freaking drugs, we give them 'half way' houses and talk businesses into hiring them so they can make everyone else miserable with their miserable lives, while people who've never touched drugs or alcohol are looking for decent jobs, homes they can afford, and worrying about feeding and raising their family, or old people are worrying about medicine and health care, and wonder if they even matter anymore. I don't think the bleeding hearts that have such a warm spot for the dopers have ever actually worked with or around them, or spoken to their family members and know how destructive they really are, to family and everyone else they come into contact with.

 

I can't help but wonder about some I worked with as a teenager. They were absolutely useless then, not interested in anything except getting high and partying. How many kids have they had for us to support? How many government programs are they on while they whine about not being given a chance to make it, and not having the same 'breaks' as other people? How many hundreds of thousands of dollars have they cost us?

https://screen.yahoo.com/pig-e...-ohio-100741995.html