‘These Kids Are Dying’ – Inside the Overdose Crisis Sweeping Fort Bragg(rollingstone.com)
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‘These Kids Are Dying’ – Inside the Overdose Crisis Sweeping Fort Bragg
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/inside-the-overdose-crisis-sweeping-fort-bragg-1396298/
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Here in North Texas, mostly in affluent Plano (now corp HQ US for Toyota among others), the late 90s was awash in high quality Mexican heroin. It made it to the affluent areas where the hooked became dealers to support their own habits. Like you say, a story as old as time…A new way humans can get their kicks but end up ass over teakettle…the story follows.
Also, many of the kids had originally been swiping pills from their parents when first experimenting, found feeling high is awesome and withdrawls are not…pills turned snorting turned to shooting.
I specifically remember 9 teenager OD deaths in like a 3-6 month period that made the news, and probably a couple more through social circles of friends and their older siblings. It really hit home for me about the reality of drug economics Christmas Eve morning of 98 or 99 when our entire street up and down the block were witnessing a family’s oldest son of 2 being taken out in a body bag after overdosing at a party the night before and his friends “dropped him off at home he seemed okay”
Yeah, stuff like that will stick and in my case always say the kids get the money from somewhere, and if they don’t have any, they find something they can hustle to those who do have it. Repeat, rinse.
Also, many of the kids had originally been swiping pills from their parents when first experimenting, found feeling high is awesome and withdrawls are not…pills turned snorting turned to shooting.
I specifically remember 9 teenager OD deaths in like a 3-6 month period that made the news, and probably a couple more through social circles of friends and their older siblings. It really hit home for me about the reality of drug economics Christmas Eve morning of 98 or 99 when our entire street up and down the block were witnessing a family’s oldest son of 2 being taken out in a body bag after overdosing at a party the night before and his friends “dropped him off at home he seemed okay”
Yeah, stuff like that will stick and in my case always say the kids get the money from somewhere, and if they don’t have any, they find something they can hustle to those who do have it. Repeat, rinse.
The article mentions that 24 hours has to pass before being considered a missing person. However, everywhere else mentions this as a myth.
Is the 24-hour rule widely applicable, or is it only specific to the US Army or when using forced entry?
Is the 24-hour rule widely applicable, or is it only specific to the US Army or when using forced entry?
I suspect it’s a myth, but widespread enough that even the police believe it, enshrining it into reality.
TL;DR: young soldiers (presumably unintentionally) overdosed on fentanyl-adulterated drugs.
If your country demands you are sick, then mandates for you to get injected, despite having any symptoms of illness, your country wants you to die from drug experimentation. The drug war is being fought against all Americans, especially those in the military.
Cool, I'll tell my commander that when they bring me the smallpox jab
This leadership is also making debt slaves of all their conscripts, while physically limiting their access to medicines and/or therapies in a monopolistic system. Government get out of my health and wealth. Government be gone!
No government means you're going to build all your own roads then?
Marking then making roads, is one approach to travel. Traveling traditionally with a tyrannical government wasn't even possible where I spent their pandemic.
Maybe the Navy SEAL group cited in the article thinks the Navy doesnt go far enough. Maybe that is a problem localized to the SEAL community, they appear to sometimes get away with some really bad shit because they are SEALs, so it doesn't surprise me. After we returned from my second deployment and several sailors were found out to be selling ectasty, they did two full command sweeps. Walk into work, muster up and get told, no one leaves today until everyone has pissed in a cup. All of those sailors were quickly NJP'd and kicked out with Other Than Honorable discharges.
As for above referencing the SEAL community. The Navy has "communities" and these communities sometimes are very different. To me, being regular fleet on an LHD, some of the weirdest fellow Navy guys I've ran into are Seabees that have never stepped aboard a ship. Which is a lot of them. It is almost like two different branches in some respects. The only thing we share in common, at least at that time, was rank structure and CNO. Until the recent uniform change, their working uniforms were even different from most of the fleet's, having the 'Avacados' instead of the blue digi camo.
The only reason this is appearing to get more attention now is Fentanyl. But these are problems that have lasted for awhile. My dad who was in the Army in the late 90s to early 2000s could tell you how much of an issue drug use was in the Army then.