Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread Share Long
Personally I'd like to see a warning label on every bottle of soda, every candy 
bar, every donut and muffin! I think the obesity epidemic continues to claim a 
lot of victims and I think is very much contributing to the decline of the US.

I think addictions have to be dealt with on the physiological level too because 
they exist on that level, even the food addictions. It's not even enough to 
scare people about it.

Johnny Gray has an interesting take on celebrities, that they take on a lot of 
energy from their audiences. Obviously some can handle it better than others.





On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 9:31 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com 
steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
Wow Anne.  No doubt you can look at it that way.  And I can't dispute what you 
are saying.  But where do you draw the line?  Distillers?  Tobacco companies?  
They are profiteers as well, no?

I certainly agree that the temptations for celebrities are greater in that they 
have the means to indulge a habit if they are susceptible that way.

In fact, I marvel that a celebrity can resist temptations. 

But I guess, for many simply the fame may be enough, as long as they get enough 
hits that way.

But caveat emptor still rules.


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:







---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote:


Not exactly along the lines of what you are saying, but it seems like there 
was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.  I wonder, really, 
why that would be? What are they guilty of besides engaging in an illegal 
transaction.  


They didn't kill him, did they?  The drug appears to have been properly 
labeled.  The dude just offed himself. I'm sure not intentionally, but as you 
say sometimes happens, he pushed it just a tad too far.


Drug dealers are slimy profiteers and yes, they sort of did kill him. These 
amoral assholes prey on all celebrities and non-celebrities alike but there 
are so many things available to famous people - drugs being just one out of 
the many perks - dealers are so eager to be able to boast about supplying 
A-listers. You have to be really strong to resist what is so easy to obtain 
when you are famous. So, yes, I do think the suppliers should be tracked down. 
Just like the doctor (Conrad Murray) who administered propofol to Michael 
Jackson; he was just a drug dealer in the end and he was imprisoned for it. In 
this world there are those who are predators and those who are easy victims. I 
do not believe whoever supplied Philip with heroin is as sorry for his death 
as he/she/they is scared that he/she/they is/are going to get caught


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:


Re  increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl :


That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was 
purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have 
used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin 
cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a 
Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a 
junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was 
always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get 
my hands on some for myself . 


Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread Share Long
Seraph, though it may well be true that drug dealers are selfish, I don't think 
that label, or any labels really, are gonna be much help in dealing with the 
problem.

Drug users need to be helped on the physiological level as well as 
psychological. These addictions, even behavior ones like gambling, have strong 
chemical bases.

I agree with you that people will look for someone to blame. But I think that 
the screwedupness or imbalances of our whole society is to blame. For example, 
why do people become drug dealers? I've heard that it's to support their family!

I'm making a joke but I do think the financial imbalances create a lot of fear 
and desperation in people. And then people take desperate measures.







On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:51 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com 
s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.:

My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book thrown 
at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery in the 
court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth. 
Hoffman was a fully-paid-up adult and has to take responsibility for his own 
actions. What led him to addiction can only be known by his close family and 
friends and I'm not in the business of judging his choices (though his now not 
being there for his children is the real tragedy).

One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that 
those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. 
Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to 
it as far as I'm concerned.

I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one 
of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he 
dominated every scene he appeared in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8



Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread authfriend
With heroin, it's worse than just chemical or psychological. Heroin use 
permanently changes the physical structure of the brain. Once a person has 
become addicted, even if they stop using and stay clean for decades (as Hoffman 
did), they still have the brain of an addict and are thus at very, very high 
risk of relapse at any time.
 
  Drug users need to be helped on the physiological level as well as 
psychological. These addictions, even behavior ones like gambling, have strong 
chemical bases. 
 










Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread awoelflebater


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Seraph, though it may well be true that drug dealers are selfish, I don't 
think that label, or any labels really, are gonna be much help in dealing with 
the problem.
 

 I think the idea was that addicts were selfish, we already know dealers 
don't give a crap about their customers. Addicts are only selfish in that their 
world revolves around having the drug of their choice. In this, they are 
willing to give up everything to have that drug; it is their best friend and it 
is essential to their very existence, or so they believe. So, in this way 
addicts are willing to turn their backs on all else that might be important and 
vital in their lives in order to stay prostrating themselves at the altar of 
their chosen addictive substance. But, that is not selfish to me as much as 
it is blind and indicative of overwhelming with need.

Drug users need to be helped on the physiological level as well as 
psychological. These addictions, even behavior ones like gambling, have strong 
chemical bases.
 

 I think this is a well-established fact.

I agree with you that people will look for someone to blame. But I think that 
the screwedupness or imbalances of our whole society is to blame. For example, 
why do people become drug dealers? I've heard that it's to support their family!
 

 Huh?

I'm making a joke but I do think the financial imbalances create a lot of fear 
and desperation in people. And then people take desperate measures.
 

 I've completely lost you here.


 

 
 
 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:51 PM, s3raphita@... s3raphita@... wrote:
 
   Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.:
 

 My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book 
thrown at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery 
in the court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth. 
 Hoffman was a fully-paid-up adult and has to take responsibility for his own 
actions. What led him to addiction can only be known by his close family and 
friends and I'm not in the business of judging his choices (though his now not 
being there for his children is the real tragedy).
 

 One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that 
those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. 
Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to 
it as far as I'm concerned.
 

 I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one 
of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he 
dominated every scene he appeared in.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8


 


 












Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread Share Long
Somehow I never knew this before. Thanks Judy. 





On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:51 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com 
authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
With heroin, it's worse than just chemical or psychological. Heroin use 
permanently changes the physical structure of the brain. Once a person has 
become addicted, even if they stop using and stay clean for decades (as Hoffman 
did), they still have the brain of an addict and are thus at very, very high 
risk of relapse at any time.


 Drug users need to be helped on the physiological level as well as 
psychological. These addictions, even behavior ones like gambling, have strong 
chemical bases. 




Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread Share Long
Ann, I was making reference to some TV shows in which people become drug 
dealers to support their family.

Selfish is a strange word. But I agree with you that if people are truly 
selfish, then they take good care of themselves. And that benefits others. One 
of life's wonderful ironies!

Lots of snow outside. Walked to town flying hall with my neighbor Wes. I was 
headed into a drift when he came along! After program, got my car out of 
another drift. Yay!







On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 8:35 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com 
awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


Seraph, though it may well be true that drug dealers are selfish, I don't think 
that label, or any labels really, are gonna be much help in dealing with the 
problem.

I think the idea was that addicts were selfish, we already know dealers don't 
give a crap about their customers. Addicts are only selfish in that their world 
revolves around having the drug of their choice. In this, they are willing to 
give up everything to have that drug; it is their best friend and it is 
essential to their very existence, or so they believe. So, in this way addicts 
are willing to turn their backs on all else that might be important and vital 
in their lives in order to stay prostrating themselves at the altar of their 
chosen addictive substance. But, that is not selfish to me as much as it is 
blind and indicative of overwhelming with need.

Drug users need to be helped on the physiological level as well as 
psychological. These addictions, even behavior ones like gambling, have strong 
chemical bases.

I think this is a well-established fact.

I agree with you that people will look for someone to blame. But I think that 
the screwedupness or imbalances of our whole society is to blame. For example, 
why do people become drug dealers? I've heard that it's to support their family!

Huh?

I'm making a joke but I do think the financial imbalances create a lot of fear 
and desperation in people. And then people take desperate measures.

I've completely lost you here.







On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:51 PM, s3raphita@... s3raphita@... wrote:

 
Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.:

My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book thrown 
at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery in the 
court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth. 
Hoffman was a fully-paid-up adult
and has to take responsibility for his own actions. What led him to addiction 
can only be known by his close family and friends and I'm not in the business 
of judging his choices (though his now not being there for his children is the 
real tragedy).

One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that 
those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. 
Although that sounds simplistic and
judgemental it has the ring of truth to it as far as I'm concerned.

I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one 
of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he 
dominated every scene he appeared in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8





[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread s3raphita
ReI think the idea was that addicts were selfish, we already know dealers 
don't give a crap about their customers.:
 

 Yes - it was drug users I referred to. The point was that people who are 
prepared to put themselves out for others (eg, mothers raising children) don't 
tend to use drugs; people whose approach to life is essentially self-centred 
are more likely to gravitate towards drug use. So there's a correlation between 
selfishness and drug abuse. As that's a judgemental statement people don't like 
to say it but I suspect it's true (if you throw in a lot of caveats and 
exceptions to the rule).
 But it's possible that Ann's right and we're putting the cart before the 
horse: becoming drug-dependent makes you self-absorbed as a necessary 
by-product.


Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread authfriend
Share is referring to the TV series Breaking Bad.
 
  Ann, I was making reference to some TV shows in which people become drug 
dealers to support their family.  
 










Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-05 Thread awoelflebater


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Ann, I was making reference to some TV shows in which people become drug 
dealers to support their family.
 

 But TV shows aren't real life, at least the last time I checked.

Selfish is a strange word. But I agree with you that if people are truly 
selfish, then they take good care of themselves. And that benefits others. One 
of life's wonderful ironies!
 

 But I didn't say that. I never said to be selfish is to take good care of 
themselves, in fact, in the case of addicts they make all the wrong decisions. 
They hurt those who love them, they abandon them emotionally if not physically, 
they degrade their bodies, imperil their jobs and the list goes on and on. When 
you are an addict nobody benefits, at least in the short term. With luck and a 
lot of grace one can emerge stronger, smarter, wiser and so can those who love 
the addict but it is a damn hard and long road and that particular journey does 
not end with abstinence.

Lots of snow outside. Walked to town flying hall with my neighbor Wes. I was 
headed into a drift when he came along! After program, got my car out of 
another drift. Yay!


 

 
 
 On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 8:35 AM, awoelflebater@... 
awoelflebater@... wrote:
 
   

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Seraph, though it may well be true that drug dealers are selfish, I don't 
think that label, or any labels really, are gonna be much help in dealing with 
the problem.
 

 I think the idea was that addicts were selfish, we already know dealers 
don't give a crap about their customers. Addicts are only selfish in that their 
world revolves around having the drug of their choice. In this, they are 
willing to give up everything to have that drug; it is their best friend and it 
is essential to their very existence, or so they believe. So, in this way 
addicts are willing to turn their backs on all else that might be important and 
vital in their lives in order to stay prostrating themselves at the altar of 
their chosen addictive substance. But, that is not selfish to me as much as 
it is blind and indicative of overwhelming with need.

Drug users need to be helped on the physiological level as well as 
psychological. These addictions, even behavior ones like gambling, have strong 
chemical bases.
 

 I think this is a well-established fact.

I agree with you that people will look for someone to blame. But I think that 
the screwedupness or imbalances of our whole society is to blame. For example, 
why do people become drug dealers? I've heard that it's to support their family!
 

 Huh?

I'm making a joke but I do think the financial imbalances create a lot of fear 
and desperation in people. And then people take desperate measures.
 

 I've completely lost you here.


 

 
 
 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:51 PM, s3raphita@... s3raphita@... wrote:
 
   Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.:
 

 My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book 
thrown at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery 
in the court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth. 
 Hoffman was a fully-paid-up adult and has to take responsibility for his own 
actions. What led him to addiction can only be known by his close family and 
friends and I'm not in the business of judging his choices (though his now not 
being there for his children is the real tragedy).
 

 One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that 
those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. 
Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to 
it as far as I'm concerned.
 

 I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one 
of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he 
dominated every scene he appeared in.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8


 














 


 












[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread salyavin808
Most people spend a life they don't know what to do with, wishing they had 
another one that lasted forever.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote:

 7thray,
 

 It's a good thing you believe in an afterlife.  There are some people who 
don't.




[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread awoelflebater


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote:

 after a drug overdose.  I am just speculating that it might go something like 
this. 

 Wht the fuck, where am I!?
 

 Uh, dude, you've passed over
 

 What the fuck are you talking about. I've got to pick up my kids in a few 
minutes
 

 Uh, you're not going to see your kids anymore.  You've passed on son
 

 No, I didn't. I was just taking a hit. It was no big deal
 

 Well you went a little overboard.  See for yourself
 

 No, no, that can't be right.  Really, I can kick this stuff
 

 Well, maybe next time dude.  Maybe next time.  I'll leave you be for a while 
so you can see what see what the scene's like that you left behind  After a 
while I'll come and see how you are doing, and we can make some plans
 

 Reflecting...
 

 God Damnit, God Damnit. Why did I have to do this shit
 

 Actually, I was thinking about this myself. This is why this has a tragic 
element for me; I am pretty sure, can't tell you exactly why and I could be 
very wrong, that Phillip didn't mean to die. There have been plenty of 
overdoses that didn't mean to die, but dead they are. I had just been listening 
to NPR coming home from work and hearing about the increase in deaths due to 
heroin laced with fentanyl and then the very next day I hear of Phillip's 
death. I guess we can only conjecture on what the death experience would be 
having overdosed and, unwittingly at that. Is there confusion? Fear? Is one 
stuck between living and dying somewhere on some plane? Or is one simply deader 
than a doornail with nothing to show for it but a flaccid corpse with drug 
paraphernalia sticking out of one's arm? 




[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread s3raphita
Re Most people spend a life they don't know what to do with, wishing they had 
another one that lasted forever.:
 

 That's actually quite profound! I thought it might be a quote but couldn't 
trace it via Google. Well done you.


[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread s3raphita
Re  increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl :
 

 That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected is was 
purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have 
used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin 
cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a 
Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a 
junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was 
always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get 
my hands on some for myself . 


[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread s3raphita
Re  increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl :
 

 That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was 
purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have 
used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin 
cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a 
Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a 
junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was 
always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get 
my hands on some for myself . 


[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread steve.sundur
Not exactly along the lines of what you are saying, but it seems like there was 
a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.  I wonder, really, why 
that would be? What are they guilty of besides engaging in an illegal 
transaction.  
 

 They didn't kill him, did they?  The drug appears to have been properly 
labeled.  The dude just offed himself. I'm sure not intentionally, but as you 
say sometimes happens, he pushed it just a tad too far.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:

 Re  increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl :
 

 That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was 
purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have 
used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin 
cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a 
Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a 
junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was 
always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get 
my hands on some for myself . 




[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread awoelflebater


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote:

 Not exactly along the lines of what you are saying, but it seems like there 
was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.  I wonder, really, 
why that would be? What are they guilty of besides engaging in an illegal 
transaction.  
 

 They didn't kill him, did they?  The drug appears to have been properly 
labeled.  The dude just offed himself. I'm sure not intentionally, but as you 
say sometimes happens, he pushed it just a tad too far.
 

 Drug dealers are slimy profiteers and yes, they sort of did kill him. These 
amoral assholes prey on all celebrities and non-celebrities alike but there are 
so many things available to famous people - drugs being just one out of the 
many perks - dealers are so eager to be able to boast about supplying 
A-listers. You have to be really strong to resist what is so easy to obtain 
when you are famous. So, yes, I do think the suppliers should be tracked down. 
Just like the doctor (Conrad Murray) who administered propofol to Michael 
Jackson; he was just a drug dealer in the end and he was imprisoned for it. In 
this world there are those who are predators and those who are easy victims. I 
do not believe whoever supplied Philip with heroin is as sorry for his death as 
he/she/they is scared that he/she/they is/are going to get caught
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:

 Re  increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl :
 

 That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was 
purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have 
used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin 
cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a 
Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a 
junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was 
always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get 
my hands on some for myself . 






[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread s3raphita
Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.:
 

 My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book 
thrown at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery 
in the court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth. 
 Hoffman was a fully-paid-up adult and has to take responsibility for his own 
actions. What led him to addiction can only be known by his close family and 
friends and I'm not in the business of judging his choices (though his now not 
being there for his children is the real tragedy).
 

 One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that 
those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. 
Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to 
it as far as I'm concerned.
 

 I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one 
of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he 
dominated every scene he appeared in.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8



[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread steve.sundur
Wow Anne.  No doubt you can look at it that way.  And I can't dispute what you 
are saying.  But where do you draw the line?  Distillers?  Tobacco companies?  
They are profiteers as well, no?
 

 I certainly agree that the temptations for celebrities are greater in that 
they have the means to indulge a habit if they are susceptible that way.
 

 In fact, I marvel that a celebrity can resist temptations. 
 

 But I guess, for many simply the fame may be enough, as long as they get 
enough hits that way.
 

 But caveat emptor still rules.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote:

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote:

 Not exactly along the lines of what you are saying, but it seems like there 
was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.  I wonder, really, 
why that would be? What are they guilty of besides engaging in an illegal 
transaction.  
 

 They didn't kill him, did they?  The drug appears to have been properly 
labeled.  The dude just offed himself. I'm sure not intentionally, but as you 
say sometimes happens, he pushed it just a tad too far.
 

 Drug dealers are slimy profiteers and yes, they sort of did kill him. These 
amoral assholes prey on all celebrities and non-celebrities alike but there are 
so many things available to famous people - drugs being just one out of the 
many perks - dealers are so eager to be able to boast about supplying 
A-listers. You have to be really strong to resist what is so easy to obtain 
when you are famous. So, yes, I do think the suppliers should be tracked down. 
Just like the doctor (Conrad Murray) who administered propofol to Michael 
Jackson; he was just a drug dealer in the end and he was imprisoned for it. In 
this world there are those who are predators and those who are easy victims. I 
do not believe whoever supplied Philip with heroin is as sorry for his death as 
he/she/they is scared that he/she/they is/are going to get caught
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:

 Re  increase in deaths due to heroin laced with fentanyl :
 

 That's a possible explanation. Another is that the heroin he injected was 
purer - stronger - than the usual stuff doing the rounds and he should have 
used a smaller dose. But stronger/purer heroin is more desirable than heroin 
cut with filler - as long as you're aware of what you're injecting. I knew a 
Scottish smack addict who confided to me one time that whenever he heard of a 
junkie dying of an overdose his first thought was never sympathy but was 
always: I wonder who the dead addict bought that batch from? and Can I get 
my hands on some for myself . 








[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread steve.sundur


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
 

 snip
 
 One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that 
those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. 
Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to 
it as far as I'm concerned.

 

 Let's face it.  He died with his lover still attached.
 

 

 I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one 
of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he 
dominated every scene he appeared in.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8





[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread awoelflebater


 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote:

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote:
 

 snip
 
 One psychologist who specialised in drug users came to the conclusion that 
those who allow drugs to dominate their lives are essentially *selfish*. 
Although that sounds simplistic and judgemental it has the ring of truth to 
it as far as I'm concerned.

 

 Let's face it.  He died with his lover still attached.
 

 You speak true enough. For the addict, his/her addiction, the poison of 
choice, is the best friend in the world. It is the thing they will give up all 
else to have, at least for a while. It always amazes me the heroism involved in 
overcoming addiction. It is so difficult; it is really one of the ultimate 
tests of strength.
 

 

 I first seriously noticed Hoffman in The Talented Mr. Ripley which remains one 
of my very favourite modern films. Playing an obnoxious Yank abroad he 
dominated every scene he appeared in.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq462kfFKI8







[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-04 Thread authfriend
Looks like they got the dealers, but they can't be prosecuted for Hoffman's 
death in New York State. And there isn't going to be some big public Trial of 
the Century. Hoffman was no innocent. Have the book thrown at him?? You're 
sounding like a bad TV cop show. Ever heard of plea bargains?
 

  Re There was a mad rush to find the dealers who sold him the drug.:
 

 My thoughts exactly. If the pusher is caught he's going to have the book 
thrown at him. Prepare yourself for some cringe-making playing to the gallery 
in the court as the dealer is cast as the scum of the earth.  
 





[FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

2014-02-03 Thread jr_esq
7thray,
 

 It's a good thing you believe in an afterlife.  There are some people who 
don't.