More on Addiction and Suboxone from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/health/at-clinics-tumultuous-lives-and-turbulent-care.html?src=recg

Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side - NYTimes.com

Many in recovery from addiction credit Suboxone as a miracle drug. Others see it as a curse. This article from the New York Times looks at both sides of the issue. What's your experience?

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The Truth Hurts

Two news stories thriving online have to do with politicians in disgrace. Certainly nothing new about that. Both have to do with mayors, one in Toronto, one local, in Marcus Hook.

Both involving booze and sexually inappropriate behavior. 

Stories like this are as old as time and always appeal to that side of us that loves to see a spectacular wreck. 

Think about this, though. 

What's it like to be the father or the daughter or te spouse of one of these guys. What's it like to live with this kind of crazy, self-destructive behavior day after day. 

Because many of us do. The families of addicts and alcoholics learn to live with a lot. 

And have the scars to show for it. 

Marcus Hook Mayor Jay Schiliro guilty on all counts in booze-fueled incident

It's easy to point a finger or make a joke, but the fact is that drug and alcohol problems are serious issues.

Marcus Hook Mayor Jay Schiliro guilty on all counts in booze-fueled incident:

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FDA urges tighter controls for prescribed opioid painkillers

FDA urges tighter controls for prescribed opioid painkillers:

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We all agree that Opiates are a epidemic. So what do we do?

"For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong."
~H.L. Mencken

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They're coming to take it away....

When I was a kid, we had just beat the Nazis, but the Russians were pretty scary. They were Communists and had a satellite in orbit. It was called Sputnik, which managed to sound funny and scary at the same time.

We were scared that they were coming to take it away. All of it. TV's, big cars, night baseball. Maverick and Gunsmoke. The whole thing, all of it.

They didn't. They went bust. 

But from that day forward, it seemed like someone was always coming to take it away. It became a state of mind, keeping an eye on whoever was planning to take it away.

I have watched civil rights activists, non-violent demonstrators, suicide bombers, potsmokers, sick junkies, conservatives, liberals, gays, pro-life, pro-choice people, Jews, born-again Christians, and most certainly, Muslims, all identified as the ones who want to take it all away.

Think we're getting into a collective state of siege? 

Think that maybe the only ones coming to take it away are ourselves?

A mentality of scarcity makes misers of us all.