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Thanks Joanie,  good advice for all

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Subject: [AlabamaY2K] y2k drug addicts

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This is from "Harlan Bemis"  
dated: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:37:32 -0000 

He provided permission to repost here.

Quite interesting.  -- Roleigh


There is a major problem brewing that I have not seen discussed in Y2k
Books or newgroups.  The street drug trade is a huge industry allegedly the
size of a Fortune 500 Company.  There are two major components -- imported
drugs like heroin, cocaine and manufactured drugs like methadone,
amphetamines.  While, with a lot of foresight and a fair bit of luck, the
manufacturing of street drugs could continue locally,  the import of street
drugs from overseas will suffer from the same kind of problems other imports
will have.  The countries that export street drugs are almost in totally
countries that have not yet started on Y2k compliance.  The transportation
problems which we are discussing will affect street drugs as well as legal
imports.

    At first glance this seem positive.  Unless the illegal drug industry is
much more clever than American industry in general the supplies of street
drugs might dry up -- every policeman and citizen's dream.  Unfortunately
this is not necessarily good news.  The loss of illegal drugs on the street
induces what is called 'a heroin panic.'  As supplies shrink, prices
escalate.  And when street drug prices increase there is a parallel need for
the drug addicts to raise more money to maintain their habits.  The cost of
a bag of dope can escalate quite easily to ten times the normal price.  A
$200 a day habit become a $2,000 a day habit.

    Much of the money for illegal drugs comes from robberies.  If the cost
of street drugs increase by ten times an addict must steal ten times more.
As an addicts desperation for drugs rise they become willing to take more
risks:  they steal in neighborhoods that are higher and higher risks
(e.g.,they visit the suburbs).  Doctor's offices, nursing homes, hospitals,
pharmacies and even homes with terminally ill patients (who might have
'something good' in their medicine cabinets or on top of the refrigerator or
by the bedside) are at risk.  Addicts are willing to take greater and
greater chances.  The police will stay increasingly busy with this situation
and require a lot of help to maintain civil order.

    Another problem that rises during a panic is that there is uneven
quality in bags of street drugs.  One bag will be cut so that it contains
just a little bit of the real drug (they are often cut with dangerous
substances which simulate the effect of the drug).  The next bag may come
come from a source who is afraid of a raid and will contain a dangerous
level of the real drug.  These 'hot bags' cause deaths or serious damage to
an addict's body which requires medical treatment and long hospital stays.

    Having worked on the streets through two heroin panics, the prospect of
a Y2k induced panic is enough to make me eager to move far from urban areas.
Drug sick addicts are highly dangerous and their only goal is to get drugs.
Anything or anyone who gets in their way is at risk.  And if we add to this
the possibility of food riots because of a shortage of supply or the lack of
welfare, unemployment or pension checks, the prospect of trouble for
ordinary citizens gets greater and greater.

    If Y2k is anything other than a flash in the pan we had better be
prepared to take care of the poor and the addicts or they will end up taking
care of us.


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