Sad but true

Group: General Diet & Nutrition

Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 399, Messages: 16719

With such a topic so broad we truly try to cover the basics from all angles in this group. Nothing too big or too small. Nutrition is as significant if not more as exercise is to reaching your goals so learn all you can.

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bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/01/13, 12:39 PM I never thought prescription pushing would sink this low: A recent Associated Press article reveals that authorities in Kentucky have busted a drug peddling syndicate that rivals a New York narcotics ring - among senior citizens in dirt-poor Appalachia! As it turns out, a large number of elderly patients in that region have been selling their prescription painkillers and other medications to young pill addicts, in some cases for years. According to the piece, a Bluegrass State anti-drug task force has charged more than 40 senior citizens with criminal re-selling of prescription drugs - including the sometimes deadly OxyContin (the same painkiller that some tabloids linked with larger-than-life talk show host Rush Limbaugh several years ago). Apparently, the drug-related arrests of these seasoned felons have been so frequent that the already-taxed local jails have struggled to adapt to the increased cost of servicing the needs of elderly inmates. And according to sources cited in the article, the practice is almost certainly not limited to the Appalachian region. -------------- Strength and Honor!

sstump1 Posts: 1,227 Joined: 2005/03/20	2006/01/13, 01:54 PM Retirement home gone crack house. That's crazy!
Nyxtikal Posts: 268 Joined: 2005/09/20	2006/01/13, 02:08 PM i hope i have a little more dignity than that when i get to be that old
Vedakathryn Posts: 1,585 Joined: 2004/05/28	2006/01/13, 04:54 PM In our surrounding cities some seniors selling prescription medication has become common knowledge. The high cost of prescription drugs and low social security seems to be the main reasoning as to why for many...they get their prescription filled, sell less than 1/2 to pill poppers that are happy to take advantage of the elderly and it pays for that prescription. It is awful and I don't know whether to feel sorry for the seniors --that they feel it comes to that --or to be angry that they would sell their prescriptions to habitual drug users that results in death for many. Often the purchasers are thankfully caught and prosecuted for having the pills on them with no prescription and yet the seller...possibly that real nice older lady next door, is not...and the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round.... -------------- Veda A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944) Just live life and enjoy it!