Hey Kids! Turn In Your Drugs To The DEA (Paranoid Rant)

[Nitro Express]

I haven't been pulled over by a cop in 15 years. I've always had good luck that way. It's like I can smell them.

[Seshmeister]

I bet you haven't been asked for ID buying booze either.

It's one of the few advantages of getting older.

That said over here in Blade Runner land I got pulled over a few years ago for an out of date tax disk which I had forgotten about and completely deserved to be done. I asked the cop a few times before he would tell me why he had pulled me over.

Turned out his car had pinged. They have a thing on the top of the squad car which reads your registration and then checks the central stolen cars, tax and insurance databases. I was really impressed.

[Satan]

When i was on my ACTIVE ADDICTION Vicodin was like eating tic tacs.

Are you Dr. House? Or Nurse Elvis??

[Seshmeister]

I'd much rather be on Vicodin than some fundamentalist Jesus cult.

[Nitro Express]

I think a few belts of whiskey is more effective than Vicodin. I have a whole bottle full of it left over from surgery and I never used the wimpy shit.

[Nitro Express]

I bet you haven't been asked for ID buying booze either.

It's one of the few advantages of getting older.

That said over here in Blade Runner land I got pulled over a few years ago for an out of date tax disk which I had forgotten about and completely deserved to be done. I asked the cop a few times before he would tell me why he had pulled me over.

Turned out his car had pinged. They have a thing on the top of the squad car which reads your registration and then checks the central stolen cars, tax and insurance databases. I was really impressed.

Actually I had to show ID at the liquor store last week. I'm 45 but I don't have any grey hair and I have all my hair. I've always been in shape. My dad didn't start to go grey until he was in his 60's.

[knuckleboner]

this is WAY no big deal. it's because people dispose of medicine in really bad ways. mostly flushing them down the toilets. a little here, a little there. when it all ends up in the water supply eventually, it's a much bigger deal. look up endocrine disruptors and intersex fish.

encouraging people to properly dispose of unused medicine is about the best thing the government can do in this case.

[Seshmeister]

I think a few belts of whiskey is more effective than Vicodin. I have a whole bottle full of it left over from surgery and I never used the wimpy shit.

The John Wayne approach to pain relief? I agree at least in the short term and for non extreme stuff. Booze is a very straightforward uncomplicated drug and at least the pitfalls are obvious and quite easy to predict. I really try and avoid medication, at the moment I've been lucky enough to get by in an average year with just say one course of antibiotics and about 6 aspirin.

[Nitro Express]

The John Wayne approach to pain relief? I agree at least in the short term and for non extreme stuff. Booze is a very straightforward uncomplicated drug and at least the pitfalls are obvious and quite easy to predict. I really try and avoid medication, at the moment I've been lucky enough to get by in an average year with just say one course of antibiotics and about 6 aspirin.

Wild Turkey 101 proof bourbon is a great painkiller. If you have a cold or the flu mix some with hot water, honey, apple cider vinegar and you will be amazed. The honey is a natural antibiotic.

For pain Ibuprofen is good and if it's serious pain, Wild Turkey. I never touched the opiates.

[Nitro Express]

this is WAY no big deal. it's because people dispose of medicine in really bad ways. mostly flushing them down the toilets. a little here, a little there. when it all ends up in the water supply eventually, it's a much bigger deal. look up endocrine disruptors and intersex fish.

encouraging people to properly dispose of unused medicine is about the best thing the government can do in this case.

Our mayor said put the drugs in kitty litter and dispose of them in the trash. They don't want you flushing them because the sewer treatment plant apparently doesn't process the drugs out of the water and it goes into the river. I'm on a septic tank but I guess I don't want to get the worms in the lawn high.

[Seshmeister]

Wild Turkey 101 proof bourbon is a great painkiller. If you have a cold or the flu mix some with hot water, honey, apple cider vinegar and you will be amazed. The honey is a natural antibiotic.

Replace the apple cider vinegar with scotch whisky and you have a 'hot toddy' which is pretty much the main cold and flu medicine here through the Winter.

Downside is it always leads to arguments when I find out she's been putting the good single malt in her toddies...

[Nitro Express]

Yeah. Cutty Sark would do the job. That's like using Patron tequila for a margarita.