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Neighbor boy (22) arrested for cooking meth in his car next to the boat ramp at a public park in broad daylight.

My other neighbor recently served 2 years of a 2-10 year sentence and got a great job working on the rigs when he came home. He was just fired for failing his drug test. Cops are looking for him now so he can clean up the remaining 8 years.

This is not unusual behavior for a high percentage of the people in our end of the county.

WTF ?????

Denny.

Meth owns the user. No other stuff like it on the planet for sheer addictiveness.

I feel for their families, they are suffering.

Ed

The saying that stuck with me regarding meth was "there are the addicts and those who haven't tried it."

it's great for your teef too

there are "meth lab" busts almost daily in the New River valley.

Heroine comes pretty close? Nasty crap and an epidemic in some parts of the country for sure!

The tool and die man at Douglas Barrels in WV got on drugs of some kind and it cost him everything, including his life. I'm so thankful I've always been afraid of drugs. Listening to a 'Dragnet' program on the radio in my youth scared me and it was about marijuana. Never tried any and have no plans. Never even taken a Viagra....didn't believe it would raise the dead.

I don't buy that. I've taken narcotics (same drug family) for surgeries and couldn't come off of that [bleep] fast enough. I found mild pain preferable. Some people are just [bleep] up.

Mao-se-tung had a BIG opium problem he inherited from the English. He mostly used Lend-Lease 1911's to rid himself of it.

It's a big deal out on the rigs. About the only way those guys can work that many hours day after day. Shtuf scares me.

LOL!!

But on a serious and sad note: My step-son got on crack 20+ years ago and it screwed his life up. I think he's still on it, and he's still screwed up. A life and untold opportunities wasted. He could have been a pro golfer. The man, when he's straight is the most astoundingly good salesman I've ever seen. He's been an investments broker for a VERY large company and won scads of performance awards, but now ain't got a pot to pee in nor a window to sling it out of.

Makes me sick to think about him.

Somebody watched too much Breaking Bad. Didn't he know he's supposed to get a Camper Van, and then drive out into the middle of the desert?

Millions of acres of wilderness around us. Dumb asses would rather cook at home.

Denny.

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Another gem from someone that has no clue other than the stories he hears. Did you not see where the dude got fired for a random drug test. If it was a "big deal" there would be no workers. And as far as hours, have you ever heard the same people tell you stories of a tour "pronounced tower" they go like this. Daylight and night. Can't remember a 12 hour shift ever being "that many hours"

Pretty lucky here, all things considered, at just a tad shy of 83 and nearly ready for the crematorium.

I don't take anything � not because I'm afraid of 'em, but because nothing that I've taken, from aspirin to morphine, has done anything for me. So why bother? I feel down-right blessed whenever I watch one of my friends take out about a dozen pills in the middle of the day and start poppin' 'em like Brach's mints. Doesn't look like fun to me.

I've been hurting, somewhere or another, all my life. Migraines. Kidney stones. Self-surgery in the bush without anesthesia. (And I'm one of those stoics who can take anything except pain!) After my hip relacement, the pain was as bad as any that I've had. The medics gave me the maximum morphine � might as well have used water. Sleeping pills? About as efficacious as shirt buttons. Sedatives? They make me sleep hard for about half an hour, then my eyelids flap open like cheap window shades, and I'm wide awake for hours (no matter how tired I am).

Drugs that supposedly increase your awareness offer what I don't want. And like I told a babe at the hospital, I'm sure that a barrel of Viagra couldn't get a rise out of me.

Heroin can't come close to the addictive power of meth. I agree it is its own epidemic in parts of the world, but a person can, and many do, lead a productive work life while being addicted to heroin. Meth doesn't let anyone do that.

From the first time that stuff is put into the body, the brain is never the same.

Ed

I was warned some years ago by an HR guru that recidivism rates on meth are very high.

And even just cooking the stuff can really screw things up in a house. Worse if it blows up while cooking. Not sure what the chemicals are, but when a cooking site is found, hazmat is usually called to clean it up.

What's terrible with the meth epidemic is that they've figured out a highly simplified process to make the stuff. They essentially combine all of the caustic ingredients in a plastic coke bottle, shake it up, and scrape the stuff of the inside of the bottle. As if it wasn't dangerous enough, this process is a true killer. My previously straight laced friend's little sister died from a does of the stuff about three days ago while I was on a campfire event with my dad in central Texas. Crazy [bleep].

Can't quite agree with that as lots of men put in lots of hours on rigs long before that stuff was invented.

Truck drivers used to pop "bennies" back in the day but that was about as bad as it got for a long time. Now this.....

I would say 95% of rig hands are clean. If they aren't they will be gone next random. Randoms seem to occur 3 or 4 times a year now that we have all these out of staters.

While what you're saying about meth is largely true, Opioids have a physically addictive property that is pretty much unmatched by any of the other drug classes. Very cruel in the way it works.