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Friday 31 December 2004
Drug addiction in Pennsylvania is NOT 'news'
My mother saw this in her local newspaper in Oregon:
The Oregonian - East Coast's horror stories reflect new map of meth
"I think in a few years, it will be all across the state of Pennsylvania," Evans said. "I know of nothing that will keep it from being all across the Northeast."
A decade after methamphetamine began tearing through Oregon and Western states, the cheap and powerful drug has exploded across the Midwest, its inexorable march finally reaching the Atlantic. Police who didn't know what the drug was just a few years ago are painfully aware of its devastating presence now.
This reminds me of the stories lately about the doctors who've been busted this past autumn:
Scranton Times Tribune - Doctor Facing More Charges
The state filed additional charges Wednesday against West Pittston physician Dr. Harry Alexanderian and there may be more coming. The state attorney general's office still is looking into whether there is a connection between Dr. Alexanderian and some of the drug overdose deaths that have occurred in the region, Attorney General spokesman Nils Frederiksen said.
And the used music store owner who was busted this past summer:
xradiograph - interference patterns - I'm presuming it will be closed for a while
Peter Kameroski, 51, of 11032 Valley View Drive, Clarks Summit, was charged Tuesday with multiple drug counts stemming from the seizure above the Electric Mindshaft record store at 227 Lackawanna Ave.
I can't help but wonder if people are really this clueless???
As far back in 1991 I knew at least a couple of people who had been in drug & alcohol rehabs because of addiction to crystal meth anphetimines. And I heard about Doctor Alexandarian selling controlled addictive prescription drugs to people willy-nilly since the 1980s, and I know people who heard of him being a drug doctor back in the 1970s. And I heard rumours about the Electric Mindshaft since the late 1980s.
And I've never bought or used meth (I've never even seen it), and the only time I've ever used prescription narcotics is when I've had surgery, and I only ever bought music from the Electric Mindshaft shop.
So if I know about this stuff, why don't the so-called experts?
posted by Chloe | Friday 31 December 2004 1:16 PM
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