Important Medical News about HEROIN

[phrEak]

well phreex...guess heroin it's not that good after all.
Maybe this will stop you from advocating for heroin use

btw...im just jokin with you...

Long-Term Heroin Addicts Have Only 50 Percent Survival Rate, 33 Year Study Finds
BETHESDA, MD -- May 16, 2001 -- After following a cohort of heroin addicts for more than 33 years, researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Drug Abuse Research Center found that nearly half of the original group of 581 men first interviewed in 1964 had died by 1997, when they would have been between 50 and 60 years of age. The study also found that about 40 percent of the 242 survivors reported past year heroin use and many reported other illicit drug use.

http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/1fb4aa.htm

 

[alert]

"...and many reported other illicit drug use"
^--- lalala.

 

[unholyangel]

damn it alert... you pointed that out before i could get the page to reload and respond.
blah...
.da angel.
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if we are what we eat, then what is to be said of what we choose to listen to...?

 

[alert]

unholyangel...me needs to talk to you about stuff and my irc is being jewish....answer your pages plz?

 

[Brainrape]

I wonder what the statistics would be like if it was cigarettes not heroin...or even better alcohol...
I guarantee it would be MUCH HIGHER percentage of death among those substance users....
Those studies are extremeley subjective, and ultimatley as useless as the paper they're printed on...
After all, they may have justs tumbled on to the unlucky batch of heroin users

Death via drug use is so individual to each person I don't think a person on here would say that a drug affects every person exactly the same...
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Lying on the stained wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder or start a religion...

 

[unholyangel]

alertie... babe... me no gets pages from yous??? what's up with that?
email me or something. please.
.da angel.
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if we are what we eat, then what is to be said of what we choose to listen to...?

 

[SpeedLimit55]

*Points out the "other illicit drugs" thing ...again...
Plus it doesnt attritbute the HEROIN to their deaths. It just said that the were dead when they were supposed to be alive. They could've all gotten hit by lightning when they were 39...It's not smack's fault.
Thus heroin is still considered medically safe...and until you can provide some REAL information, Heroin use will continue to be advocated...hell, demanded!

 

[AbraMontague]

I do recall one case of a doctor who was addicted to morphine for 60 (SIXTY) years and suffered no adverse effects on his health or his professional duties.

 

[phrEak]

The study also found that about 40 percent of the 242 survivors reported past year heroin use and many reported other illicit drug use.

I really don't see why you guys are pointing that out. To me it just proves that chroninc heroin addicts have a greater chance of also abusing/using other substances.
Wich to me is as the being dead also not good.
I'm not saying that heroin is bad per se. Maybe it's just as safe as takin an aspirin. I don't care. The addicts die not because of the heroin itself but the choices they make in their lifes (malnutrition, bad hygene, use of other drugs, higher risk of being infected with something). I think thats what the study is pointing out. You have a higher risk of dying younger if you are a heroin addict, thats all.
I guess it all comes down to what everyone who uses drugs must face...taking the risk if you think it's worth it. For me here the risk is too great.