Hillbilly Heroin Mon 1st Feb, Virgin 155 and Sky 183 More hard-hitting documentaries coming up on Mondays here: current.com Theres an epidemic of pharmaceutical drug abuse sweeping the US thats claiming 11 lives a day, with more people abusing prescription drugs than heroin, cocaine and ecstasy combined. The drug of choice for many is Oxycodone, AKA Hillbilly Heroin. Current correspondent Mariana Van Zeller reports the escalating abuse of the drug and the devastating effects its having on the nation. Mariana also investigates why Florida is the epicenter of the problem with pain medication clinics liberally dispensing the drugs and attracting addicts from all over the country. Hillbilly Heroin Mon 1st Feb, Virgin 155 and Sky 183 More hard-hitting documentaries coming up on Mondays here: current.com Join the group to get regular updates on our Mondays at 10 documentaries.
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Mottledlobster
August 31, 2012 at 2:44 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I assume you meant to write this in reply to ghmkij, but I think he meant all drugs other than pills.
Sun4sol
August 31, 2012 at 3:26 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
My front neighbor takes those oxy pills :/
ganjamanj2552
August 31, 2012 at 4:22 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Hillbilly heroin? Is that what the idiots in the uk are calling it
thegr8pulido
August 31, 2012 at 4:58 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Jesus Christ, people! All I really meant is that it’s pretty stupid to claim “smoking weed is good for you, toke up, brotha” and immediately follow it with “awh wtf, man fuck those pills you stupid junkie! Human garbage like you should be shot!” It goes against everything potheads stand for, does anyone remember peace and love back in the youth of 60s-80s? When did that turn to hate and intolerance?
thegr8pulido
August 31, 2012 at 5:00 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Opiates are nature’s greatest gift(opinion). They don’t want you using any drug because it slows down productivity/desire for material possessions and changes focus to knowledge/relationships/pleasure, they don’t give a fuck about our health. They make more money by keeping the drugs we’ve used for ages illegal.
thegr8pulido
August 31, 2012 at 5:19 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Addiction is always a choice. The possibility of physiological addiction should not bar anyone and everyone from using a drug for recreation. It’s the same as the governments of ancient times that would cut off your dick for wanking it or worse kill you to make a point to others. Smoking pot is a ancient as smoking opium. Now we have stronger synthetic versions of these drugs(new cannabinoids/opiods). By saying “fuck the pills” I assume you mean “fuck synthetics” So fuck synthetic cannabinoids?
thegr8pulido
August 31, 2012 at 6:04 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
“Faggots” was a low blow I’ll admit that, but it was not in terms of homosexuality,it was in terms of idiots/posers/fad followers and other low forms of humanity. I don’t give a damn who you find attractive, as long as you don’t do something stupid like promote pot smoking but shame use of opiate drugs(as if opiate use isn’t as ancient as cannabis use). Opiate addiction is prevalent because they deny our kids actual information about it. They’ll try it eventually, so take away the “cool factor”.
thegr8pulido
August 31, 2012 at 6:52 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Weed is terrible for you, don’t even try to argue that reality, but that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t do it. Same with other drugs. People have to know what drugs do, not what propaganda like this tells you. People are going to do drugs, they need to know the risks of the drugs, not “don’t do it, kid”.
thegr8pulido
August 31, 2012 at 6:59 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Presidents that smoked weed: Obama(Liar, scoundrel)
Bush(Moron, fool), Jackson(Banker puppet), Lincoln(Tyrant).
Presidents that were addicted to or used opiates for recreation: John Kennedy(addict, last President to stand up to private banks, then murdered for it), Hoover(addict, worked hard for the restoration of the nation), Ford.
That’s just a small amount of irrelevant crap that doesn’t make either drug better.
Pot makes you feel stupid, opiates make you feel godly, that’s just reality.
thegr8pulido
August 31, 2012 at 7:49 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Yes, burning something and inhaling the crap that comes from it will obviously help your lungs. Good work, Mr. Scientist! Are you still selling that lock of Jesus’ hair I’ve been hearing about? Perhaps you still have that dried fairy dust in your collection of bullshit! People die from mixing different pills(depressants) with alcohol(depressant) and being fucking idiots. The pills didn’t jump into their bodies. If you don’t want to harm yourself, don’t! You’re obviously against freedom. Stop.
sliver64209
August 31, 2012 at 8:33 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
dont do oxy’s, heroin, or coke. just sayin
eddieg671
August 31, 2012 at 9:29 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Weed is good for you
CoolConejo
August 31, 2012 at 10:07 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I guess they forgot the part where smoking pot turns you into a homophobic psychopath that wishes death upon people with different opinions.
Mottledlobster
August 31, 2012 at 11:03 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Or like, y’know.
People who like the weed high but don’t want to fall into any sort of addiction.
It’s impossible to become addicted to cannabis, unless you’re talking psychological addiction. However if psychological addiction is the problem it’s not the drug it’s the mind of the user.
Bro Bot
August 31, 2012 at 11:30 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
“12 year olds and other faggots” Its 2012 man wake the fuck up and stop using sexuality as a put down If anything your sounding like an overzealous 12 year old.
ChicanoTattooArt
August 31, 2012 at 11:48 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
lol your such a fucken nerd
91Manolinho91
September 1, 2012 at 12:08 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
is heroin ?
toddfather420
September 1, 2012 at 12:36 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
They showed my neck of the woods (WV) and it is beyond a problem here. I can name at least fve people off the top of my head I used to go to school with who have died from prescription drugs. I can name countless people I know who are strung out now, including my sorry ass brother and his stanking ass wife.
mrdante361
September 1, 2012 at 12:42 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Watching all those pills made my mouth water.
Johan Vind
September 1, 2012 at 1:03 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I came across this kind of as a possible informational communication and exciting, therefore i think that is incredibly valuable and also well-informed to me.
Xx425xXBalla
September 1, 2012 at 1:18 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Beans were the shit before they made the new ones where you can’t smoke em or snort em. I know so many people that switched groom smoking oxys to shooting dope
MrPunkydrunky
September 1, 2012 at 1:25 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
PAIN RELIEF NOW..A WORLD OF PAIN LATER..FUCK THESE “DOCTORS”
GodFucksChildren
September 1, 2012 at 2:09 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I did oxycodone when I was 14, but I only did it once so I didn’t get addicted.
ATHFCMFFT123
September 1, 2012 at 2:19 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
nah ROXYcodone is synthetic dope
oxymade from the same shit i thinkn but weaker
lostmexicans
September 1, 2012 at 2:49 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
so your right but your also wrong nikka