Althouse: "Come on, people. If you're going to be a drug addict, be a heroin addict. It has a proven reputation."

January 12, 2014

"Come on, people. If you're going to be a drug addict, be a heroin addict. It has a proven reputation."

Things overheard at Meadhouse this morning.

The newspaper article under discussion was: "Heroin deaths rise in Dane County, drug's toll increasing."

28 comments:

Anonymous said...: Heroin Addiction is a Cliche that is Catnip to the Hipster.

A True Addict Chooses Meth for Availability, Inexpensiveness and the Ability to Get Things Done. I have Scrubbed Those Walls Scrubbed Those Floors Scrubbed Until the Sponge Bled Wait That is My Blood I Have Torn Loose a Fingernail But Still I Scrub All Surfaces Are Unclean They Must Be Clean I Must Clean Them I Will Clean Them Woops a Tooth Fell Out.; 1/12/14, 8:56 AM
Anonymous said...: I Must Put the Tooth in the Tooth Bag Where Did I Leave the Tooth Bag it is Around Here Somewhere I Look Under Couch Cushions and Inside Shoes It is Here Somewhere If I Can't Find My Tooth Bag I Will Surely Go Crazy.; 1/12/14, 9:00 AM
jr565 said...: If you want to go all out just go with Krokodil. Its cheap, has a great high, and you could get a job on the Walking Dead as a zombie without needing makeup.

Plus you off yourself relatively quickly.; 1/12/14, 9:05 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: To paraphrase Keith Richards - "Compared to cigarettes, heroin is silly." He should know. As an aside, walk into any methadone clinic. they're all in there trying to give up the Horse but not a one of em' is giving up their Marlboros or Kools.; 1/12/14, 9:06 AM
Anonymous said...: Oh Sweet Lord My Tooth Bag is Missing My Tooth Bag is Gone I Sometimes Take the Teeth From the Tooth bag and Try To Glue Them Back Into My Mouth But They Still Fall Out I Need Stronger Glue I Will Get Stronger Glue I Saw Her I Saw Althouse Eyeing My Tooth Bag She Must Have Taken It She Has My Tooth Bag and Is Photographing My Teeth I Feel So Lost I Must Distract Myself There is a Place Where I Am Free there is a Place Where I Am Free and Clean and the Itching Stops But it Is No Use Althouse Has My Tooth bag I Know It.; 1/12/14, 9:11 AM
Bob Ellison said...: betamax3000, you must have had something to do with this squirrel.; 1/12/14, 9:16 AM
Anonymous said...: I Understand Squirrels They have secret places and Hide secret Things and I Have secret places and Hide Secret Things and I Have Looked and Looked and Looked in Those Special Places But the Tooth Bag is Not There I'll Check Again Still Not There Althouse has it I Know it My Nose is Dripping.; 1/12/14, 9:19 AM
traditionalguy said...: This heroin suggestion is intelligent.

The drug rehabilitation on probated sentences experience addict recoveries of 60% from heroin, and 40% from cocaine, but zero % from meth.; 1/12/14, 9:21 AM
Ron said...: Ah, another Sunday and the Althouse commentariat has found an uninfected vein between their toes to shoot a pinch of "Madison Blonde Lightning."....

How can you not love America?; 1/12/14, 9:23 AM
Anonymous said...: Zero Percent is Right Why Would I Ever Want to Quit Meth I get Things Done I Get Things Done fast and Sleep Does Not get in the Way Sleep is Wasted Time and I Have Things to Do I am Always Doing Things and Sure My Teeth Sometimes Fall Out But They are Not Missing I Have Them in my Tooth Bag I Need My Tooth Bag Back My Scabs are Bleeding Again I Think I Scratched Them Without Thinking This Happens a Lot There is a Lot of Scratching.; 1/12/14, 9:30 AM
madAsHell said...: Here we are at the end of the line, Paese dei Balocchi.
Everyone must disembark.
Please complete your toe tags, and hand them to the porter.
Tweekers will exit on the left, and junkies on the right.
Are there any questions?; 1/12/14, 9:36 AM
Illuninati said...: The war on drugs has been very expensive with little to show. We could probably downgrade the use and distribution of many of the less dangerous drugs from felonies to misdemeanors without much harm. Legalizing these drugs completely would remove a hook which society can use to control the most dangerous aspects of drug addiction.; 1/12/14, 9:53 AM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/12/14, 10:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Sometimes I Pull at My Hair and twist it Around My Fingers twist it First One Way Then Twist it the Other and Then Sometimes Pull It Helps Me Think Between All the Thoughts That Race Through Me I Am in a Crowd Even When There is No One There I Get Scabs Where the Hair Pulls Out.; 1/12/14, 11:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Sometimes I Read Althouse Posts Over and Over and the Words Keep Moving Like Flies on the Chicken Bones in the Sink the Words Keep Moving But Some of Them Repeat and This is Soothing Things overheard at Meadhouse Things overheard at Meadhouse Things overheard at Meadhouse I Keep Repeating This Phrase Aloud or In My Head I Can't Tell Which Meadhouse Meadhouse That is Where My Tooth Bag Is.; 1/12/14, 11:09 AM
Anonymous said...: I Wrap My Forearms in Aluminum Foil So I Can't Pick at the Scabs the Aluminum Foil Makes Me a Rocket Ship I Am a Rocket Ship Flying Fast I Make Rocket Sounds When My Teeth Don't Clatter There is Toilet Paper in My Nostrils to Stop the Dripping from Dripping.; 1/12/14, 11:14 AM
Anonymous said...: Sleep is Coming I Don't Want to Sleep I Don't Want to But My Eyelids Flutter It is Coming I Leave All the Lights On All the Lights are On.; 1/12/14, 11:21 AM
FullMoon said...: betamax
Check your carpet. I think it has tiny little bugs and their larva in the fibers; 1/12/14, 12:31 PM
virgil xenophon said...: If Betamax3000 dies from ANYTHING other than malignant brain lesions, his brain ought to be donated/preserved in the Smithsonian, lol.; 1/12/14, 12:38 PM
Sam vfm #111 said...: The main reason people overdose on heroin is that it is illegal and they have no idea how pure a drug they just bought. Make it legal and you cure the overdose problem, excpet for those that want to off themselves.; 1/12/14, 12:58 PM
virgil xenophon said...: @Sam Hall/

You are totally wrong about "overdoses." You should read the The Consumers Union Report on licit & illicit drugs (1972) Specifically Chapter 12: The "heroin overdose" mystery. Google and go educate yourself..; 1/12/14, 1:08 PM
William said...: I was given Demerol for a hospital procedure. It was a mildly pleasant high, but I've had better. What was really intense and dramatic was the depression I felt when the drug wore off. It was really intense. Darkness at noon. I could understand what Sylvia Plath was all about.......I don't think heroin addicts are committed to getting high. They just want to avoid the low........; 1/12/14, 1:10 PM
Valentine Smith said...: ODs are simply nature's way of separating the amateurs from the professionals.; 1/12/14, 1:17 PM
Levi Starks said...: Betamax,
I just wanted to let you know, that while I've enjoyed your bitterly sardonic humor for quite some time, You are today at the top of your game.
I would like to nominate for the position of "Althouse Blog Poet Laureate.; 1/12/14, 3:01 PM
cubanbob said...: The main reason people overdose on heroin is that it is illegal and they have no idea how pure a drug they just bought. Make it legal and you cure the overdose problem, excpet for those that want to off themselves."

Yes let's make it legal and have it mandated under ObamaCare.; 1/12/14, 3:13 PM
Michael said...: Read Theodore Dalyrymple ' book On Opiates. He says much about heroin addiction and withdrawal,is bullshit.; 1/12/14, 4:15 PM
Sam vfm #111 said...: virgil xenophon said...

@Sam Hall/

You are totally wrong about "overdoses." You should read the The Consumers Union Report on licit & illicit drugs (1972) Specifically Chapter 12: The "heroin overdose" mystery. Google and go educate yourself..

I read it and they conclude
"If the Syndrome X deaths are due to quinine or to any other adulterant or contaminant in the bag, the responsibility clearly rests with the American heroin black market for selling unsafe mixes. If the cause of these deaths is the shooting of heroin while drunk on alcohol or barbiturates, the black-market distribution system remains at least indirectly responsible, for it is largely the high cost of black-market heroin that makes heroin users turn to alcohol and barbiturates on occasion--- and thus, perhaps, to risk death from Syndrome X."

So, what I said stands, make it legal and you stop these deaths.; 1/12/14, 4:18 PM
virgil xenophon said...: @Sam Hall/

Yes, I undoubtedly mis-read you. My point is that those who think heroin "overdoses" are the result of getting too "pure" of a strain of the product are wrong, and the report backs that up.; 1/12/14, 6:05 PM