Addiction = Mental health… Bureaucrat = CLUELESS ?

wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather TONIGHT AT 11: Heroin users injecting doubt into needle exchange issue http://www.wave3.com/story/30470887/heroin-users-injecting-doubt-into-needle-exchange-issue LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – At the same time they’re arresting people in heroin busts in Scott County, they are handing out free syringes to heroin users at a building next door to the police department. Sometimes the users shoot up […]

Wasn’t the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts ? History repeating ?

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20151105/NEWS12/151109548/0/SEARCH#sthash.pt5Hdav0.dpuf Hassan opioid rules rejected By MARK HAYWARD New Hampshire Union Leader CONCORD — The Board of Medicine rejected on Wednesday a lengthy set of rules developed by the Hassan administration to clamp down on doctors who prescribe opioids, opting instead for a much narrower set of regulations. The regulations go into effect in 48 […]

Sen Cotton disability & poverty cause of addiction ?

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/sen-tom-cotton-social-security-benefits-cause-people-to-spiral-downward-into-heroin-addiction/ Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested on Monday that population decline and drug abuse in poor areas could be the result of too many people on Social Security disability. Speaking to the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday, Cotton warned that communities with high a percentage of residents on Social Security disability had reached a tipping […]

I have been MIA lately

My blog has been rather quite for the last few days… We left Thursday AM for Durham, NC – 550 miles – to help only grandson to celebrate his 9th birthday on Friday and spend the weekend… Today (Monday ) back on the road and back to Indiana.  I took my IPAD along for the […]