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Add to FavoritesAs long as deadly, additive and illegal drugs are available for purchase people will buy those drugs and some of them will, no doubt, die from a drug overdose. As for me, I wonder just how many people within our society have overdosed accidentally, or if they tired to kill themselves. I also wonder just how many of those people died as a result of such behavior.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no accurate number for either of those events, but it is true enough that even celebrities can be victims of such behavior. We only know about their problem because they are somehow famous and millions of ordinary people are interested in their future success and also in the private lives of those famous people.
There is only one way to decrease the death rate of the number of people who use deadly, additive and illegal drugs. The people who sell those drugs must be stopped one way or another. Most of those drugs come from members of violent street gangs. Those drugs are also provided by people who transport those drugs to nearly every town and city within the United States of America.
That sure is a terrible waste of our Human and financial resources. For your information, the elected Politicians within our Government can stop the flow of those drugs into our society and save tens of thousands of lives, but they are more concerned about serving the owners and controllers of those huge multinational corporations and other minority special interests.
I also appears that those Politicians work harder and spend more time to get elected to those Public Offices than the total of the entire time that they spend actually working the job that "We People" allowed them to have. Ae a matter of fact, "We People" need Politicians who will actually do what they said or promised, in order to get elected to those jobs that they want so much.
It really hurts me to see or hear about the deaths of so many talented people each and every year, for as far back as I can remember. If they don't die from old age, more often than not, a drug overdose is the cause of their death. If the death percentage of ordinary people who died from some kind of overdose is the same as the percentage of Hollywood Movie Stars, our society is in big trouble.
One thing that you can't dispute is the fact that the more deadly, additive and illegal drugs there are within our society, the more people will die from the use of those drugs. Each and every year tens of thousands of tons of those drugs find their way into our Country, and yet, the people within our Government do little or nothing to, at last, put an end to the people within those violent street gangs and all of the other people who are directly responsible for the deaths and the addiction of millions of our people.
Believe it or not, each and every person within our society has been hurt directly or indirectly, by other people who are addicted to those deadly and illegal drugs. Higher street crime rates, higher insurance rates and higher medical expenses are just a few of the horrific things that have resulted from illegal drug use.
Each year tens of thousands of tons of those drugs get into our Country, and yet, the people within our Government still do little to reduce or stop the inflow of those poisons. As a matter of fact, the Governmental agencies responsible for stopping the importation of such poisons aren't even fully funded and staffed with enough people for that truly important job. Here is no better example of more Government involvement being beneficial rather than nothing more than a waste of the Taxpayer's money.
In other words, more Government participation in solving this and many other serious problems is far better than a bunch of do-nothing worthwhile for the majority politicians who want you to just say no while "We People" continue to be victimized by the richest, the most heartless, the most self-serving and the most evil people on Earth.
None of us are safe from those truly serious problems, and those problems are getting worse by the minute. Who will you vote for in 2008? More important, who will you vote out of Public Office in 2008?
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When I heard the news that Heath Ledger had died of a drug overdose, I was shocked because he was one of the few stars that ever made the news due to drug activity. Of course, the media was all over it, down to the number of pill bottles sat on his nightstand to the fact that he was naked when they found him. With these lurid details, most people's minds will wander to the possibility that he is just another addicted movie star.
However, as more details came out, we learned that he was battling a number of illnesses at the time of his death, including a cold and insomnia. These are ailments that many Americans are suffering with on a daily basis and receive prescription drugs to battle, as well. So, was he a drug addict or just the victim of a combination of medications? We will never really know the truth because entertainment reporters only focus on the parts of the stories that seem juicy.
What makes his death worse is that all of a sudden, people who supposedly knew him are talking about him in a negative light. This makes me sick when I hear this on the news. Instead of passing hasty judgments on him, however, we should think, if we suddenly died on any given day, what might they find that may make our deaths look suspicious? What theories could investigators contrive about our lifestyles?
Personall y, there have been many days I've pondered this question. For example, people are making such a big deal that he was found naked in his bed. I know at least 15 people who sleep naked on a regular basis, and I have done so myself. What would they say about us if we were found dead on those particular days? Who they assume that something was wrong with us or that we were weird or into something?
As far as the prescriptions, I am currently taking a few pharmaceuticals, two of which make me extremely tired. I try to avoid mixing them with any over-the-counter medications because I am afraid of some adverse affects. But, say a day comes when I take a Tylenol for a headache and, without knowing, find out that they don't mix well and sadly, I die. What would the coroner say? Would they say I was a drug addict or something?
We will never know the full truth about Heath Ledger's death. Maybe he was a drug addict that kept it hidden from fans and the press. On the other hand, he could be like any non-celebrity who made a fatal mistake with his medications. No matter what the case is, we are not in some epidemic of celebrity deaths by overdose.
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