The government fails to instill a sense of personal responsibility. Society has bred this idea that it is always someone else's fault. It is someone else's fault that they don't have a job. It is the successful people's fault that unsuccessfuly people can't afford their dreams. As long as society offers people an out by allowing people to blame anyone except themselves then we will always have this kind of crap in our neighborhoods.
In the other eye, who are we to force someone who obviously enjoys their drug of choice to live as society dictates? It is their life, their resposibility, let them live with their choices.
I am not a wildly religious person, however, comma, in my humble opinion, the vacated corpses of which you speak house the demonic.
Left unchecked. Evil intrudes.
Lost my sister....suicide.
Agree with Iso above in the first paragraph. Not the second tho.
Their choices negatively affect too many.
Thanx for intervening NW. Your action was one of love.
Kudos! Very informative article, keep up the good work!
This blog will be one of the many that I visit everyday.
Best of luck,
philippinenurses
Iso, I respectfully disagree with your position. This is not a 'victimless crime.' While the meth addict may have made the initial decion to use, that decision affects other people who are close to them. They steal from family members. They steal from their neighbors. They hurt other people because of their addiction, and thus they must be stopped one way or the other. And the people who supply them need to be stopped as well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Your civil rights end where the other fellow's nose begins." It's a shame that this nation has forgotten that.
My brother was a methhead for a while. He stole money from our mom and a garage full of tools from our stepdad so that he could maintain his habit. Sad, but fortunately hitting bottom was his wake-up call.
Not too long ago, we picked up a methhead who was going from the ER to rehab. Her b/f had wrenched one of her shoulders out of its socket, blackened her eyes, and burned her labia with a cigarette because he thought she had some meth stashed away that she wasn't sharing with him.
Evil, evil stuff.
Yep, this is why I have Button on my site for the Meth Project. it's drug prevention site.
Man, I'm glad you stopped to comment on my blog! Doin' that brought me here and I gotta say, you can flat out express yourself!
I agree with the others about the negative effects we'll all experience from Meth. Law Enforcement guys that know tell me the the final chapter of this story is about to unfold... long-term users will all be violent in the end. Folks working in ERs will face the worst of it.
When we are called to fly to the scene of an explosion... furnace, water heater, etc...
(we even picked up a guy that claimed the carburetor on his car had backfired on him- when was the last time you saw a carburetor?!)...
the first thing to cross my mind is cookin' meth. The shame of it is, more and more my suspicions are correct.
We may as well get ready for it. Our Police forces are already spread thin, so they cannot control the coming disaster. Someone above talked about personal responsibility...
We do all have a gun to protect ourselves, don't we?!!
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