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Cat and Mouse
By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! It was brought to my attention that a girl I know in name
only, was booked into our Darke County Jail - again. Now - I'm gonna
sidestep what continual use of drugs - any drugs - legal or illegal -
does to your body. I'll sidestep the fact that everyone has someone
that loves them, does not want to and can not watch you destroy
yourself. The point to this column is:
I've heard all my life - "friggin' pigs - ain't they got nothin' better
to do than arrest and harass people that just want to "celebrate" or
"let off some steam" - I'm not hurting anyone - I'm not
contributing to minors - I'm not selling to minors, etc." I'll sidestep
the morality and/or legality of all of this, too.
I've heard people say - "The cop has "a quota to fill" or
he (the cop) had a bad night with the old lady and took it out on me,
etc." I'll sidestep that, too.
Now for my point - yea, I know I took the long way to get to it:
Once you have committed a crime - any of the crimes - you are "marked"
- as it were. With such a heavy concentration of effort being put into
our local drug problem - why would you show yourself in public - under
the influence of an illegal substance? Don't you people see that's just
putting peanut butter on the proverbial mousetrap? In the same way that
certain poisons are spread out so that the "infected pests" will take
the poison back to the hive, den or nest to infect or kill the rest of
the hive.....so law enforcement will follow you. Why would you bother
to deal the stuff? Yea - I heard your comment about Narcan or whatever
it is you bought hoping to reverse an overdose. What if there are too
many overdoses and not enough Narcan? If you call the police - you will
be arrested. They're not going to show up, save you and say good-bye to
you. What if the "cook" of this stuff cuts it with something the makers
of Narcan did not think they would use? What if you don't have enough
Narcan - like maybe it only took half as much of the Narcan as the
container said it would - so you save the rest....only to use it and
find it's not enough - and someone dies? There are no guarantees to
life - or drugs - even legal scrip drugs...what will make me sick might
do nothing to you. And what if you do enough "stuff" and there's always
a residual of it in your body? In the case of scrip drugs - the Drs
want there to always be a certain level of the prescribed drug in the
body for maximum health effect/benefit. That's why they monitor this
through blood tests. That's also why people are monitored for levels -
good and toxic for scrip meds...like oxycodone, percadan, percaset,
etc. They know how much should be in your system when you take the
medication as prescribed, through regular blood testing. Any other
medication......even over-the-counter stuff - has the potential to make
a residual level of any drug in your body go to the toxic level.
So - I guess the question here is: Do you want to be the peanut butter
on the trap? Notice any trap is set with something good to lure the
prey. You people are the good stuff - by the way.
Remember the kiddies and our service people. Take good care of the
furry and feathered ones out there. Be safe and healthy. See ya next
time. Ever Toodles!! MONA
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