I am so sorry for you and your brother, Truth281. I would be violent too I suppose under those same circumstances. Why don't they flipping legalize heroin? I mean is it any different from the oxycodone that is plaguing this nation? No. He wouldn't have probably burglarized anyone if he could have gotten what he needed. (There's a lower rate of heroin use in countries that have legalized it to a certain degree.) I'm not advocating the use of heroin. But look at what wikipedia says about its counterpart:
History
Freund and Speyer of the University of Frankfurt in Germany first synthesized oxycodone from thebaine in 1916,[6] a few years after the German pharmaceutical company Bayer had stopped the mass production of heroin due to hazardous use, harmful use, and dependence. It was hoped that a thebaine-derived drug would retain the analgesic effects of morphine and heroin with less dependence. To some extent this was achieved, as oxycodone does not have the same immediate effect as heroin or morphine nor does it last as long.[citation needed] (Yeah, right.)
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The International Narcotics Control Board estimates that 11.5 tons (23,000 lbs) of oxycodone were manufactured worldwide in 1998;[34] by 2007 this figure had grown to 75.2 tons (150,400 lbs).[34] Of all countries, the United States had the highest total consumption of oxycodone in 2007 at 51.6 tons (103,200 lbs) or 82% of the world total. This translates into over half a billion 80 mg tablets per year.[34] In addition, the U.S. had the highest per capita consumption of oxycodone, followed by Canada in 2006, 2007 and 2008. This makes the consumption of oxycodone in North America (United States and Canada alone) higher than all other countries of the world combined.
These people aren't going to be rehabilitated in prison. They're being penalized for something they would like to stop. I could be wrong, but imagine it was the heroin that led to the burglary and the violence. I bet your brother would have stopped it if he could have. Great, so now he's going to have to go cold turkey.
I know someone whose son had a skiing accident (or so the story goes) and was given oxycodone in the hospital during his recovery. Well, the doctors didn't warn him that he might become addicted to it. (It's highly addictive.) And so when he was released from the hospital he went through the same withdrawal he'd have gone through coming off heroin ("the sedative for coughs" ~Bayer Pharmaceuticals) and he went looking for and found oxycodone. And he has been in and out of jail for probably the past 5-7 years and his mother can't tell her husband who is not the father of the young man, because he keeps telling her to abandon him (and I can understand that too -- not judging), but she can't just abandon him. So she goes to work and then sneaks behind her husband's back to see her child in jail.
It's all so stupid and so sad.
I'm sorry for the rant. It just makes me want to scream. I will pray for your brother, Josh. I will pray for his ease of withdrawal and I will pray for his protection in prison. I will pray that he gets the help he needs and I will pray that he is appointed the best attorney he can possibly get. I will pray for the people he burglarized and the people he was violent towards. And I'll pray for you and your family.
God blesses me abundantly, so no prayers needed for me. But if you want to I won't tell you not to. You're a sweet person.
I hope your new job is going well?
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