Vicodan the undiscovered country

In this day and age it would seem that everyone from the mail man to your grandmother is on something for one disorder or another. For all those little aches and pains, everyone gets from time to time. However, your truly has had to pleasure of experiencing the V drug this week, do to some tooth pain. I have been taking a drug called Darvocet. This little pain killer is like Vicodan’s little sister. How easy it would be to start taking this drug not just for pain, but to feel “better” all the time. On this and other types of painkillers, it is possible to function.
Are we all becoming the undiscovered addicts thanks to our doctors? I have not mentioned drugs for depression. With the drugs out now who wouldn’t want to be depressed. Now they are working on a pill to erase bad memories, how nice is that?
Drugged out, numbs out, and checked out. Don’t misunderstand me, of course there those who could not get through the day without them. That’s not whom I speak of, drugs can’t replace parenting or bad relationships.
But wait, now you can cut out the middle man and buy your drugs from over sea suppliers with a prescription. Now we all can dose and dose. All a kid has to do is use him mom’s or dad’s credit card, and presto he’s a dealer of scrip drugs. Don’t need dope or cocaine when there’ s Vicodan. According to www.drugabusehelp.com, Vicodin is a semisynthetic narcotic analgesic and antitussive with multiple actions qualitatively similar to those of codeine. Most of these involve the central nervous system and smooth muscle.
The precise mechanism of action of hydrocodone and other opiates is not known, although it is believed to relate to the existence of opiate receptors in the central nervous system. In addition to analgesia, narcotics may produce euphoria; drowsiness; lethargy; relaxation; difficulty in concentrating; decreased physical activity in some users and increased physical activity in others; mild anxiety or fear, and pupillary constriction.
This was the good, fun part, this is the bad part. Vicodin may make you drowsy. Do not drive a car, operate machinery, or perform any other potentially dangerous activities until you know how this drug affects you. Narcotics such as Vicodin may interfere with the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal conditions. Vicodin suppresses the cough reflex; therefore, be careful using Vicodin after an operation or if you have a lung disease. High doses of Vicodin may produce slowed breathing; if you are sensitive to this drug, you are more likely to experience this effect. Vicodin slows the nervous system. Alcohol can intensify this effect.
This website went on to discuss other symptoms. For regular Vicodin user abruptly stops taking Vicodin, withdrawal should begin within six to twelve hours. The intensity of withdrawal depends on the degree of the addiction, and symptoms are usually not life threatening. Typically,Vicodin withdrawal symptoms may intensify for twenty-four to seventy-two hours and then gradually decline over a period of seven to fourteen days. The symptoms of Vicodin withdrawal include but are not limited to:
restlessness, muscle pain, bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes, goose bumps, involuntary leg movements, watery eyes, runny nose loss of appetite, irritability, panic, nausea, chills, and sweating.
In preparing this piece, I was unable to get a real number of how many people are addicted to vics in the U.S, but I can tell you it’s a lot. The recovery of drugged out America is we all of us.

AIG; thieves in suits

AIG, I have always understood that bonuses were based on performance and profits, neither which AIG has. The money they are so freely handing out is not profit. So how can AIG treat it as such, the money is a negative not to be treated as profit or even windfall. Contract or no contract, AIG has no respect or moral compass or responsibly to where the money came from. The American Tax payer money is not a bonus, it was given in good faith that it would be used wisely and responsibly. To that end, AIG should be punished for their action. What they did was break the contract with the government and the American people. AIG first priority is to those how gave it to save the company, not to reward those who raped it. At the least, with all their so-called problems, giving bonuses was the first thing they could think of to do with our money? Big business corruption abound, it’s time to say the American people will no longer flip the bill for the government’s affair with big business and big business greed and moral misconduct. SHAME ON AIG FOR SLAPPING US IN THE FACE AND SHAME ON UNCLE SAM FOR LETTING THEM.

Boy victimized by Women Rapist

More often than not stories are surfacing of rapes of young boys. Not just stories involving the church. But  of  boys being victimized and  betrayed by women closest to them. Women they trust or even love.  For myself it was a family member. At the age seven I learned far too much about the birds and the bees.  It was of the most descriptive nature. I was shown and expected to do things I was afraid to do and knew were wrong .  What I didn’t know, I was taught and threaten if I told anyone. The “affair” went on for some time. Until I was finally separated from my abuser. This incident would mark and distort my view of sex and my own sexuality forever. We try and teach our sons to treat women with respect and that they are not pieces of meat for our pleasure. What of our daughters? This “affair” would be only the first of many  encounters with sex abuse I would have by men and women of all ages. Until this behavior became as normal to me as ridding a bike. In turn my thoughts would dwell on this and the beginning of my own string of sex abuse victims at the age of ten. Sex  can easily be abused or even turned into an addition and ruin lives forever. With the introduction of the Internet it couldn’t be easer. In my town there is a sex offender list and someone moves with in a mile of my home I get e-mailed. The number would scare you of how many there are. Both men and women. I have a wife who I have shared everything with. I don’t hate these people for what they did to me, maybe pity but not hate. I understand and have gotten help from other victims.  In many , many years of marriage I have never cheated on my wife. The fact is the world is a sick place and getting sicker by the minute. When you can find web sites showing people how to steal a child there’s a big problem. But for other victims of sex abuse who don’t get help the future may be grim. Often times I would bury my sham and guilt , in drinking and drugs Thinking some how it was my doing.  It never helped the pain was still there. Until I decided to deal with it. If you have been a victim of sexual abuse get help , No one causes someone else to abuse them. What do I think should be done with all sex abusers? I let you make up your own mind.