INTRODUCTION

SO MANY WARNINGS OVERLOOKED

This is the second book I have written to make the world aware that this generation is exposed to drugs and alcohol on a daily basis. Drug abuse touches every family in America. I am told that every campus in the nation has some kind of drugs available on it. Derivatives of the Opiates are being pushed on high school and some found on middle school campuses too.

Think about all the lives that have been lost while defending our country in all the wars, including Iraq. Unbelievable, but can you imagine all the lives lost in a matter of seconds testing the waters with new hallucinating drugs for excitement due to overdoses? The total deaths of America including the Revolutionary War are just under a million, according to statistics furnished by DOD. Like I say the combined total of deaths due directly to drugs and indirectly to the end results i.e. doctors and hospitals and other medical care mistakes should run close to the million, give or take a few. Then we can add the results from pushers and street drugs. Robberies, crashes and all connected bring on accidents and more deaths.

Lortabs, Lorcet and all hydrocodone pain relievers are increasing addiction in the US of A. For the ten-year period beginning in 1990, there was an increase of 400% in the sales and production of these medications. There were over 124 million prescriptions with hydrocodone dispensed, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration. No wonder Lortabs is the number one street drug being pushed ahead of OxyContin. What I don’t understand is this sudden overflow of pain relievers available for physicians to prescribe.

Prescription drugs originating from a physician are now killing more people than the street drugs. Was it that much increase of excruciating pain, I can’t even begin to imagine why but for one reason. Everyone is cashing in on the addictions from members of the medical society on down to the pushers. Supply and demand is the answer for any increases in the chain and whose fault is it? Do you think the percentages will go down in the next ten years, no way?

And what if a fist full of drugs purchased on the streets can hook everyone and ruin a multitude? Their lives are lost before they know it. I can’t help but wonder what the total number of deaths in America could be which are already caused from drugs? I am sure it’s available.

Drugs can destroy our world when consumed and all the mentalities are gone. A sniff or a snort, a few pipe loads, some chasers and a lost count of how many are swallowed—these all take lives away daily. Drugs can cause a whole community to shut down.

It only takes a little while and up jumps the devil, saying, “You now are missed in action; so easy, so stupid and so long.” It only costs a few bucks and another life is snuffed out, like a candle in the wind. There is a potential for more lives to be destroyed by drugs available than all those who gave their lives to defend their country. Believe me; this can happen through organized crime, which exists in the shadows of our country.