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Oh, about the Subject ... according to Urban Legend, a "Pharm Party" is the new way high school kids combine their social life with their drug ingestion ... Before Friday or Saturday night rolls around, all the kids rifle through their rents' medicine cabinets for any prescription pills which might be recreationally thrilling or interesting, and they bring them to the Pharm Party and pass them around.
It's the kind of "Oh no! It's the End of the World!" kind of urban legend which War On Drugs creeps use to shape public policy by spreading Fear, Panic and, in this case, by stirring up the natural Hatred that older people (i.e. voters) traditionally feel toward kids (i.e., un-enfranchised non-voters).
I went to a Rave once! Really! I did! Me! And a few times I've actually Moshed! (I am the Fred Astaire of Slam-Dancing!)
So if you've ever actually been to a real, authentic Pharm Party, please Leave A Comment and tell us all about it. We want to hear all about you wicked teenagers doing stolen illegal drugs which your poor, hard-working, sacrificing parents truly needed for their authentic illnesses.
Then tell us all about the crazy meaningless unprotected teenage sex you had after you got all fucked up on the illegal drugs.
If you invited 492 of your closest friends to the Pharm Party and they totally trashed somebody's nice suburban house while their rents were out of town for the weekend, let us know all about that, too.
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Well screw the mosaic picture of Rush Limbaugh, he's just the biggest and most damaging asshole in American politics, I don't want his image on Vleeptron.
But besides being a professional asshole, he also has an authentic illness -- addiction to prescription painkillers -- and illness and addiction can happen to anybody. Guy needs medical help, not cops and prosecutors, but that's how we deal with addiction and substance abuse in the USA -- we don't call a doctor or nurse or an addiction specialist, we call a cop and a prosecutor and a prison guard.
As a national plan and strategy, btw, how's that working?
Anyway, like their mosaic of George W. Bush made of 1200 assholes, artofresistance.org made a mosaic of Limbaugh out of thousands of pharmaceutical painkillers. Here's the legend of the various pills.
Oxycontin/oxycodone, a synthetic opiate, has acquired the street nickname "Hillbilly Heroin" because of its early popularity as an underground diverted addiction drug in the US Appalachian regions like Tennessee and Kentucky. But a great powerful painkiller is a great powerful painkiller, and these wildly popular pills have spread far beyond the Appalachians.
I'll have more to say about Pain, Painkillers, Pain Management, Police, Prosecutors, Prisons and Health Professionals. It's a fascinating realm of public health policy.
It wouldn't be so miserably fascinating if the US federal government didn't have its head stuck so far up its butt for so many decades.
In Europe there are a lot of countries that deal with all substance abuse and addiction problems strictly as health and public health issues, and the cops play no part in it.
Well, when I write Letters to the Editor about this subject, I like to ask:
If your child had a drug problem, whom would you call? 911 or your family doctor? So why do we make laws and public policy that demand we do just the opposite if the sick person is a stranger rather than a family member?
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