White America Hooked On Heroin: Documentary.
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I feel like a tall stack of pancakes from IHOP with cheese eggs and lots of bacon!
Yum!
On the real, fuck 'em!
When crack hit hard where was their compassion?
Yum!
On the real, fuck 'em!
When crack hit hard where was their compassion?
Good
I loved your Bonus video and have witnessed the heroin and crack epidemic ravage the black community in East Harlem and Harlem, and mainstream media didn't "bat an eye." How ironic is it that now that the faces have changed that the concern and approach has also?
code words repeated over n over
good family
this isn't alleyways of NYC or isn't the bronx
the responses of what they deem an addict should be has me like
FUCK THEM ALL
makes me wanna do my part and help...gonna donate 5 bucks to them becky's to get my r kelly on
good family
this isn't alleyways of NYC or isn't the bronx
the responses of what they deem an addict should be has me like
FUCK THEM ALL
makes me wanna do my part and help...gonna donate 5 bucks to them becky's to get my r kelly on
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I'm rooting for heroin. #teamopoid
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"
The beauty of this is white people actually see the catalyst for the demise of their society right before their eyes. This is terrifying for them. Few do heroin alone, so that means that when one dies, others die with them. One bad (good) batch is a generation of white privilege wiped-the-fuck out! The playing field has no been leveled. Crack didn't kill like this! Black people have long-awaited the racial equalizer. We thought that it was education, success, having and raising more black prominent children. Nope. The great equalizer is white weakness. And, the white weakness is brought on by white supremacy. See, when you are born into the privilege of being white, your need to be great is greatly stifled. You can sail through life being mediocre. "Dude, do you fuggin know who my parents are, dude?" That was an answer on job applications for them! But now, with the wave of immigrants coming in, and superficial jobs going overseas, the mediocre mindset has trapped many whites into generational poverty. The ability to get a job just because you were white was all they needed. Now being stupid and white has caught up to them. Can't even work the laptop section at Best Buy!
White people are broke because white people wont even pay their own a living wage. They're giving jobs away to immigrants on the cheap. The white man is now in perpetual state of bitterness and delusion. White women are constantly abused by white men. Held back by them. The rapes, the physical abuse, the priests fucking all the kids in the parish for decades. Most white people are constantly dealing with some physical or sexual guilt. The men who molest and abuse live with the stress of being found out or turned in by their victims. Hence, the #metoo movement. So, being white is no longer the Platinum AMEX card it used to be. Being white is now the most basic shit you can be. This is why the culture vulture game is so big right now. They need an identity. "I'm white!" only works socially now. White power is being reduced to the power to complain and be heard. That's all it really is. Everything else, men of color rule. So they drink. Or smoke a little something. Hit their women. Molest their kids. They feel oppressed simply by being regular now. So they drink.
I recently told a white dude respectfully that white supremacy is a falsehood. That i could take it from him in a second. They all had more money and things than i do. I said "None of you in this room can say you aren't afraid of me. Not one of you. I can make you fear walking down the same hallway as me, with a glance. I can make you take the long way around and claim that hallway. I can move into your neighborhood and force you to move. All of you have more money and power than me, but none of you in this room, as men, are superior to me. Not one of you." With the most calm face, i watched the fear come over them. White power only works behind the stroke of a pen. On this side of the desk, they have to be men. They can't. White supremacy is some Disney shit. Works better on film. Every black man reading this could step out his door and just LOOK in the direction of a white person and not blink, and we own them. That's the power they will never have unless they get a job where they can fire a gun or hand down a jail sentence. This is why blue lives matter to them. And the 2nd amendment. They are bitches and their women know it.
When a billionaire like Marc Cuban said he would cross the street if he saw a white guy with tattoos or a black man in a hoodie. That's white inferiority. That's weakness. Without a gun, or a badge, or the power to hurt someone financially, white-people-are-weak. The second a black person has his own, the white man has nothing. So white supremacy is being able to boast of your whiteness in the company of whiteness. They need to hide their faces and show up en mass to even openly say "White Power". They dont stand alone on a street corner talking shit unless it to muslim or white women. And they usually take an L from black or hispanic women. So they cant even dominate women of color with any broad affect. They are this weak. So they drink or smoke something.
If i can just show up, and take a white bitch out the club. No Ferrari, just swagger! That's a crushing blow to white supremacy because money was the only reason any white man could look down on people of color. You could have millions......but i can fuck your wife AND your daughters, and marry into the wealth you've built. Then mix up your gene pool with my black DNA????? I win. So they have another drink. Or they smoke something. If i dick my way into your daughters life, you disown her. That guilt is palpable. That alienates you from your own wife. My patna then fucks your wife. The black guy, Terrance, at work, you've laid a path for him to slide dick into your wife, take her, and end up in the home you built all from your insecurities. Have another drink.
Heroin gives them an escape from mediocrity. That feeling of helplessness is what feeds the addictions of the rich. And further feeds the addiction of the poor and afflicted white person. So they drink or smoke a little something heavier to relax. Heroin is the black dick of death to white culture. When money and government policy cant stop it, all they can do it watch their numbers dwindle. Their women are fucking and marrying out of their race because they are weak dick, can't fight, abuse bitches. So they drink a little more. With hispanics multiplying by the day, they will become the majority within 25 years. The white man has taught the mexicans every skill they kept from blacks, and now even mexicans are bidding to build The Wall. Mexicans, heroin, and black dick in their women are the things Trump and his cronies know are gonna end their dominance in this nation. With heroin, all we gotta do is sit back and sell it to them.
So why is heroin the great equalizer? Because being white has always been a celebration. Not a day or week, but a lifetime of celebration. White people graduated, its a big party. Sweet 16. Spare no expense! White people have the biggest and most expensive everything. Again, to celebrate. They can't fathom being unhappy. We shrug shit off in a matter of hours because shit is real to us. To them, what is life if they cant celebrate having or doing something that most others can't? This is why their fraternities get disbanded. People die when white people party. So much fun, they fucking die. Think about that! The "gateway drug" bullshit was always a warning to THEM of how addiction could slow their population growth. Beer, booze, then weed, 'shrooms, then cooooooocaine maaaaaan! Whites had soooo many reasons to celebrate. And so many methods to enhance said celebrations. Now they aren't getting jobs out of college. White women want ethnic men. White women openly admit they can't fuck or dance, or fight, so they cling to power anyway they can: death and destruction. They come back from war fucked up. So they get high. Wife leaves em.. Can't find a job. A black guy punks them at work or at their favorite bar. They drink a little more or get even higher.
Now.....heroin. Good ol' sweet, abundant, inexpensive, difficult to shake, heroin.
The end of white supremacy came from being too damn happy to be white.
Now.....we wait.
Hope it wipes out all them crakkas.
How can you be so cruel? These people are suffering from Substance Use Disorder.
Yup some Black folk remember the eighties crack epidemic and how the government responded/didn't respond. Most forget or don't know about the heroin epidemic of the sixties that messed up a whole lotta lives and 'merica couldn't give a shit.
Kenneth Clark (the psychologist from the black/white doll test) tried to get funding to fight heroin in Harlem and tried to get the government to see the heroin epidemic as a health crisis and not a law enforcement issue and the government told him to fuck off. So guess how the majority of us feel about this now?
Famo how many ppl on your screen name
The beauty of this is white people actually see the catalyst for the demise of their society right before their eyes. This is terrifying for them. Few do heroin alone, so that means that when one dies, others die with them. One bad (good) batch is a generation of white privilege wiped-the-fuck out! The playing field has no been leveled. Crack didn't kill like this! Black people have long-awaited the racial equalizer. We thought that it was education, success, having and raising more black prominent children. Nope. The great equalizer is white weakness. And, the white weakness is brought on by white supremacy. See, when you are born into the privilege of being white, your need to be great is greatly stifled. You can sail through life being mediocre. "Dude, do you fuggin know who my parents are, dude?" That was an answer on job applications for them! But now, with the wave of immigrants coming in, and superficial jobs going overseas, the mediocre mindset has trapped many whites into generational poverty. The ability to get a job just because you were white was all they needed. Now being stupid and white has caught up to them. Can't even work the laptop section at Best Buy!
White people are broke because white people wont even pay their own a living wage. They're giving jobs away to immigrants on the cheap. The white man is now in perpetual state of bitterness and delusion. White women are constantly abused by white men. Held back by them. The rapes, the physical abuse, the priests fucking all the kids in the parish for decades. Most white people are constantly dealing with some physical or sexual guilt. The men who molest and abuse live with the stress of being found out or turned in by their victims. Hence, the #metoo movement. So, being white is no longer the Platinum AMEX card it used to be. Being white is now the most basic shit you can be. This is why the culture vulture game is so big right now. They need an identity. "I'm white!" only works socially now. White power is being reduced to the power to complain and be heard. That's all it really is. Everything else, men of color rule. So they drink. Or smoke a little something. Hit their women. Molest their kids. They feel oppressed simply by being regular now. So they drink.
I recently told a white dude respectfully that white supremacy is a falsehood. That i could take it from him in a second. They all had more money and things than i do. I said "None of you in this room can say you aren't afraid of me. Not one of you. I can make you fear walking down the same hallway as me, with a glance. I can make you take the long way around and claim that hallway. I can move into your neighborhood and force you to move. All of you have more money and power than me, but none of you in this room, as men, are superior to me. Not one of you." With the most calm face, i watched the fear come over them. White power only works behind the stroke of a pen. On this side of the desk, they have to be men. They can't. White supremacy is some Disney shit. Works better on film. Every black man reading this could step out his door and just LOOK in the direction of a white person and not blink, and we own them. That's the power they will never have unless they get a job where they can fire a gun or hand down a jail sentence. This is why blue lives matter to them. And the 2nd amendment. They are bitches and their women know it.
When a billionaire like Marc Cuban said he would cross the street if he saw a white guy with tattoos or a black man in a hoodie. That's white inferiority. That's weakness. Without a gun, or a badge, or the power to hurt someone financially, white-people-are-weak. The second a black person has his own, the white man has nothing. So white supremacy is being able to boast of your whiteness in the company of whiteness. They need to hide their faces and show up en mass to even openly say "White Power". They dont stand alone on a street corner talking shit unless it to muslim or white women. And they usually take an L from black or hispanic women. So they cant even dominate women of color with any broad affect. They are this weak. So they drink or smoke something.
If i can just show up, and take a white bitch out the club. No Ferrari, just swagger! That's a crushing blow to white supremacy because money was the only reason any white man could look down on people of color. You could have millions......but i can fuck your wife AND your daughters, and marry into the wealth you've built. Then mix up your gene pool with my black DNA????? I win. So they have another drink. Or they smoke something. If i dick my way into your daughters life, you disown her. That guilt is palpable. That alienates you from your own wife. My patna then fucks your wife. The black guy, Terrance, at work, you've laid a path for him to slide dick into your wife, take her, and end up in the home you built all from your insecurities. Have another drink.
Heroin gives them an escape from mediocrity. That feeling of helplessness is what feeds the addictions of the rich. And further feeds the addiction of the poor and afflicted white person. So they drink or smoke a little something heavier to relax. Heroin is the black dick of death to white culture. When money and government policy cant stop it, all they can do it watch their numbers dwindle. Their women are fucking and marrying out of their race because they are weak dick, can't fight, abuse bitches. So they drink a little more. With hispanics multiplying by the day, they will become the majority within 25 years. The white man has taught the mexicans every skill they kept from blacks, and now even mexicans are bidding to build The Wall. Mexicans, heroin, and black dick in their women are the things Trump and his cronies know are gonna end their dominance in this nation. With heroin, all we gotta do is sit back and sell it to them.
So why is heroin the great equalizer? Because being white has always been a celebration. Not a day or week, but a lifetime of celebration. White people graduated, its a big party. Sweet 16. Spare no expense! White people have the biggest and most expensive everything. Again, to celebrate. They can't fathom being unhappy. We shrug shit off in a matter of hours because shit is real to us. To them, what is life if they cant celebrate having or doing something that most others can't? This is why their fraternities get disbanded. People die when white people party. So much fun, they fucking die. Think about that! The "gateway drug" bullshit was always a warning to THEM of how addiction could slow their population growth. Beer, booze, then weed, 'shrooms, then cooooooocaine maaaaaan! Whites had soooo many reasons to celebrate. And so many methods to enhance said celebrations. Now they aren't getting jobs out of college. White women want ethnic men. White women openly admit they can't fuck or dance, or fight, so they cling to power anyway they can: death and destruction. They come back from war fucked up. So they get high. Wife leaves em.. Can't find a job. A black guy punks them at work or at their favorite bar. They drink a little more or get even higher.
Now.....heroin. Good ol' sweet, abundant, inexpensive, difficult to shake, heroin.
The end of white supremacy came from being too damn happy to be white.
Now.....we wait.
Can’t believe I actually read all of that shit...
The beauty of this is white people actually see the catalyst for the demise of their society right before their eyes. This is terrifying for them. Few do heroin alone, so that means that when one dies, others die with them. One bad (good) batch is a generation of white privilege wiped-the-fuck out! The playing field has no been leveled. Crack didn't kill like this! Black people have long-awaited the racial equalizer. We thought that it was education, success, having and raising more black prominent children. Nope. The great equalizer is white weakness. And, the white weakness is brought on by white supremacy. See, when you are born into the privilege of being white, your need to be great is greatly stifled. You can sail through life being mediocre. "Dude, do you fuggin know who my parents are, dude?" That was an answer on job applications for them! But now, with the wave of immigrants coming in, and superficial jobs going overseas, the mediocre mindset has trapped many whites into generational poverty. The ability to get a job just because you were white was all they needed. Now being stupid and white has caught up to them. Can't even work the laptop section at Best Buy!
White people are broke because white people wont even pay their own a living wage. They're giving jobs away to immigrants on the cheap. The white man is now in perpetual state of bitterness and delusion. White women are constantly abused by white men. Held back by them. The rapes, the physical abuse, the priests fucking all the kids in the parish for decades. Most white people are constantly dealing with some physical or sexual guilt. The men who molest and abuse live with the stress of being found out or turned in by their victims. Hence, the #metoo movement. So, being white is no longer the Platinum AMEX card it used to be. Being white is now the most basic shit you can be. This is why the culture vulture game is so big right now. They need an identity. "I'm white!" only works socially now. White power is being reduced to the power to complain and be heard. That's all it really is. Everything else, men of color rule. So they drink. Or smoke a little something. Hit their women. Molest their kids. They feel oppressed simply by being regular now. So they drink.
I recently told a white dude respectfully that white supremacy is a falsehood. That i could take it from him in a second. They all had more money and things than i do. I said "None of you in this room can say you aren't afraid of me. Not one of you. I can make you fear walking down the same hallway as me, with a glance. I can make you take the long way around and claim that hallway. I can move into your neighborhood and force you to move. All of you have more money and power than me, but none of you in this room, as men, are superior to me. Not one of you." With the most calm face, i watched the fear come over them. White power only works behind the stroke of a pen. On this side of the desk, they have to be men. They can't. White supremacy is some Disney shit. Works better on film. Every black man reading this could step out his door and just LOOK in the direction of a white person and not blink, and we own them. That's the power they will never have unless they get a job where they can fire a gun or hand down a jail sentence. This is why blue lives matter to them. And the 2nd amendment. They are bitches and their women know it.
When a billionaire like Marc Cuban said he would cross the street if he saw a white guy with tattoos or a black man in a hoodie. That's white inferiority. That's weakness. Without a gun, or a badge, or the power to hurt someone financially, white-people-are-weak. The second a black person has his own, the white man has nothing. So white supremacy is being able to boast of your whiteness in the company of whiteness. They need to hide their faces and show up en mass to even openly say "White Power". They dont stand alone on a street corner talking shit unless it to muslim or white women. And they usually take an L from black or hispanic women. So they cant even dominate women of color with any broad affect. They are this weak. So they drink or smoke something.
If i can just show up, and take a white bitch out the club. No Ferrari, just swagger! That's a crushing blow to white supremacy because money was the only reason any white man could look down on people of color. You could have millions......but i can fuck your wife AND your daughters, and marry into the wealth you've built. Then mix up your gene pool with my black DNA????? I win. So they have another drink. Or they smoke something. If i dick my way into your daughters life, you disown her. That guilt is palpable. That alienates you from your own wife. My patna then fucks your wife. The black guy, Terrance, at work, you've laid a path for him to slide dick into your wife, take her, and end up in the home you built all from your insecurities. Have another drink.
Heroin gives them an escape from mediocrity. That feeling of helplessness is what feeds the addictions of the rich. And further feeds the addiction of the poor and afflicted white person. So they drink or smoke a little something heavier to relax. Heroin is the black dick of death to white culture. When money and government policy cant stop it, all they can do it watch their numbers dwindle. Their women are fucking and marrying out of their race because they are weak dick, can't fight, abuse bitches. So they drink a little more. With hispanics multiplying by the day, they will become the majority within 25 years. The white man has taught the mexicans every skill they kept from blacks, and now even mexicans are bidding to build The Wall. Mexicans, heroin, and black dick in their women are the things Trump and his cronies know are gonna end their dominance in this nation. With heroin, all we gotta do is sit back and sell it to them.
So why is heroin the great equalizer? Because being white has always been a celebration. Not a day or week, but a lifetime of celebration. White people graduated, its a big party. Sweet 16. Spare no expense! White people have the biggest and most expensive everything. Again, to celebrate. They can't fathom being unhappy. We shrug shit off in a matter of hours because shit is real to us. To them, what is life if they cant celebrate having or doing something that most others can't? This is why their fraternities get disbanded. People die when white people party. So much fun, they fucking die. Think about that! The "gateway drug" bullshit was always a warning to THEM of how addiction could slow their population growth. Beer, booze, then weed, 'shrooms, then cooooooocaine maaaaaan! Whites had soooo many reasons to celebrate. And so many methods to enhance said celebrations. Now they aren't getting jobs out of college. White women want ethnic men. White women openly admit they can't fuck or dance, or fight, so they cling to power anyway they can: death and destruction. They come back from war fucked up. So they get high. Wife leaves em.. Can't find a job. A black guy punks them at work or at their favorite bar. They drink a little more or get even higher.
Now.....heroin. Good ol' sweet, abundant, inexpensive, difficult to shake, heroin.
The end of white supremacy came from being too damn happy to be white.
Now.....we wait.
Good drop.
Me too.
What does this mean?
Sometimes i spit hot fire.
Can’t believe I actually read all of that shit...
Good drop.
If Heroin had a GoFundMe I'd donate.
This shit wasn't an epidemic when one of my family members was on the streets.
Wasn't an issue when this family member was in prison for the majority of my life.
Wasn't an issue when this same family member found out she had hep c which ended up killing her.
I hope they continue to flood the streets with good dope and that these cacs keep on shooting up.
I've got the same amount of compassion that they had for my family members.
Fuck them.
Wasn't an issue when this family member was in prison for the majority of my life.
Wasn't an issue when this same family member found out she had hep c which ended up killing her.
I hope they continue to flood the streets with good dope and that these cacs keep on shooting up.
I've got the same amount of compassion that they had for my family members.
Fuck them.
This...
I was gonna blame you for my sudden outburst at this damn meeting but i should of known better to be on bgol during a meeting cause you never know what your going to see or read btw
The comments in that 1st video is fucking gold.
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A.Davis01 they will only get treatment. I don't give a fuck about them. I hope all of their kids get hooked.
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@ A.Davis01 they will only get treatment. I don't give a fuck about them. I hope all of their kids get hooked.
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BGOL got me on a conference call laughing as well.I was gonna blame you for my sudden outburst at this damn meeting but i should of known better to be on bgol during a meeting cause you never know what your going to see or read btw
Co mutha funkin sign
How can you be so cruel? These people are suffering from Substance Use Disorder.
Yup some Black folk remember the eighties crack epidemic and how the government responded/didn't respond. Most forget or don't know about the heroin epidemic of the sixties that messed up a whole lotta lives and 'merica couldn't give a shit.
Kenneth Clark (the psychologist from the black/white doll test) tried to get funding to fight heroin in Harlem and tried to get the government to see the heroin epidemic as a health crisis and not a law enforcement issue and the government told him to fuck off. So guess how the majority of us feel about this now?
The beauty of this is white people actually see the catalyst for the demise of their society right before their eyes. This is terrifying for them. Few do heroin alone, so that means that when one dies, others die with them. One bad (good) batch is a generation of white privilege wiped-the-fuck out! The playing field has no been leveled. Crack didn't kill like this! Black people have long-awaited the racial equalizer. We thought that it was education, success, having and raising more black prominent children. Nope. The great equalizer is white weakness. And, the white weakness is brought on by white supremacy. See, when you are born into the privilege of being white, your need to be great is greatly stifled. You can sail through life being mediocre. "Dude, do you fuggin know who my parents are, dude?" That was an answer on job applications for them! But now, with the wave of immigrants coming in, and superficial jobs going overseas, the mediocre mindset has trapped many whites into generational poverty. The ability to get a job just because you were white was all they needed. Now being stupid and white has caught up to them. Can't even work the laptop section at Best Buy!
White people are broke because white people wont even pay their own a living wage. They're giving jobs away to immigrants on the cheap. The white man is now in perpetual state of bitterness and delusion. White women are constantly abused by white men. Held back by them. The rapes, the physical abuse, the priests fucking all the kids in the parish for decades. Most white people are constantly dealing with some physical or sexual guilt. The men who molest and abuse live with the stress of being found out or turned in by their victims. Hence, the #metoo movement. So, being white is no longer the Platinum AMEX card it used to be. Being white is now the most basic shit you can be. This is why the culture vulture game is so big right now. They need an identity. "I'm white!" only works socially now. White power is being reduced to the power to complain and be heard. That's all it really is. Everything else, men of color rule. So they drink. Or smoke a little something. Hit their women. Molest their kids. They feel oppressed simply by being regular now. So they drink.
I recently told a white dude respectfully that white supremacy is a falsehood. That i could take it from him in a second. They all had more money and things than i do. I said "None of you in this room can say you aren't afraid of me. Not one of you. I can make you fear walking down the same hallway as me, with a glance. I can make you take the long way around and claim that hallway. I can move into your neighborhood and force you to move. All of you have more money and power than me, but none of you in this room, as men, are superior to me. Not one of you." With the most calm face, i watched the fear come over them. White power only works behind the stroke of a pen. On this side of the desk, they have to be men. They can't. White supremacy is some Disney shit. Works better on film. Every black man reading this could step out his door and just LOOK in the direction of a white person and not blink, and we own them. That's the power they will never have unless they get a job where they can fire a gun or hand down a jail sentence. This is why blue lives matter to them. And the 2nd amendment. They are bitches and their women know it.
When a billionaire like Marc Cuban said he would cross the street if he saw a white guy with tattoos or a black man in a hoodie. That's white inferiority. That's weakness. Without a gun, or a badge, or the power to hurt someone financially, white-people-are-weak. The second a black person has his own, the white man has nothing. So white supremacy is being able to boast of your whiteness in the company of whiteness. They need to hide their faces and show up en mass to even openly say "White Power". They dont stand alone on a street corner talking shit unless it to muslim or white women. And they usually take an L from black or hispanic women. So they cant even dominate women of color with any broad affect. They are this weak. So they drink or smoke something.
If i can just show up, and take a white bitch out the club. No Ferrari, just swagger! That's a crushing blow to white supremacy because money was the only reason any white man could look down on people of color. You could have millions......but i can fuck your wife AND your daughters, and marry into the wealth you've built. Then mix up your gene pool with my black DNA????? I win. So they have another drink. Or they smoke something. If i dick my way into your daughters life, you disown her. That guilt is palpable. That alienates you from your own wife. My patna then fucks your wife. The black guy, Terrance, at work, you've laid a path for him to slide dick into your wife, take her, and end up in the home you built all from your insecurities. Have another drink.
Heroin gives them an escape from mediocrity. That feeling of helplessness is what feeds the addictions of the rich. And further feeds the addiction of the poor and afflicted white person. So they drink or smoke a little something heavier to relax. Heroin is the black dick of death to white culture. When money and government policy cant stop it, all they can do it watch their numbers dwindle. Their women are fucking and marrying out of their race because they are weak dick, can't fight, abuse bitches. So they drink a little more. With hispanics multiplying by the day, they will become the majority within 25 years. The white man has taught the mexicans every skill they kept from blacks, and now even mexicans are bidding to build The Wall. Mexicans, heroin, and black dick in their women are the things Trump and his cronies know are gonna end their dominance in this nation. With heroin, all we gotta do is sit back and sell it to them.
So why is heroin the great equalizer? Because being white has always been a celebration. Not a day or week, but a lifetime of celebration. White people graduated, its a big party. Sweet 16. Spare no expense! White people have the biggest and most expensive everything. Again, to celebrate. They can't fathom being unhappy. We shrug shit off in a matter of hours because shit is real to us. To them, what is life if they cant celebrate having or doing something that most others can't? This is why their fraternities get disbanded. People die when white people party. So much fun, they fucking die. Think about that! The "gateway drug" bullshit was always a warning to THEM of how addiction could slow their population growth. Beer, booze, then weed, 'shrooms, then cooooooocaine maaaaaan! Whites had soooo many reasons to celebrate. And so many methods to enhance said celebrations. Now they aren't getting jobs out of college. White women want ethnic men. White women openly admit they can't fuck or dance, or fight, so they cling to power anyway they can: death and destruction. They come back from war fucked up. So they get high. Wife leaves em.. Can't find a job. A black guy punks them at work or at their favorite bar. They drink a little more or get even higher.
Now.....heroin. Good ol' sweet, abundant, inexpensive, difficult to shake, heroin.
The end of white supremacy came from being too damn happy to be white.
Now.....we wait.
Dude, nice little article. You need to write. Your thoughts were cogent.
Impressive!
The beauty of this is white people actually see the catalyst for the demise of their society right before their eyes. This is terrifying for them. Few do heroin alone, so that means that when one dies, others die with them. One bad (good) batch is a generation of white privilege wiped-the-fuck out! The playing field has no been leveled. Crack didn't kill like this! Black people have long-awaited the racial equalizer. We thought that it was education, success, having and raising more black prominent children. Nope. The great equalizer is white weakness. And, the white weakness is brought on by white supremacy. See, when you are born into the privilege of being white, your need to be great is greatly stifled. You can sail through life being mediocre. "Dude, do you fuggin know who my parents are, dude?" That was an answer on job applications for them! But now, with the wave of immigrants coming in, and superficial jobs going overseas, the mediocre mindset has trapped many whites into generational poverty. The ability to get a job just because you were white was all they needed. Now being stupid and white has caught up to them. Can't even work the laptop section at Best Buy!
White people are broke because white people wont even pay their own a living wage. They're giving jobs away to immigrants on the cheap. The white man is now in perpetual state of bitterness and delusion. White women are constantly abused by white men. Held back by them. The rapes, the physical abuse, the priests fucking all the kids in the parish for decades. Most white people are constantly dealing with some physical or sexual guilt. The men who molest and abuse live with the stress of being found out or turned in by their victims. Hence, the #metoo movement. So, being white is no longer the Platinum AMEX card it used to be. Being white is now the most basic shit you can be. This is why the culture vulture game is so big right now. They need an identity. "I'm white!" only works socially now. White power is being reduced to the power to complain and be heard. That's all it really is. Everything else, men of color rule. So they drink. Or smoke a little something. Hit their women. Molest their kids. They feel oppressed simply by being regular now. So they drink.
I recently told a white dude respectfully that white supremacy is a falsehood. That i could take it from him in a second. They all had more money and things than i do. I said "None of you in this room can say you aren't afraid of me. Not one of you. I can make you fear walking down the same hallway as me, with a glance. I can make you take the long way around and claim that hallway. I can move into your neighborhood and force you to move. All of you have more money and power than me, but none of you in this room, as men, are superior to me. Not one of you." With the most calm face, i watched the fear come over them. White power only works behind the stroke of a pen. On this side of the desk, they have to be men. They can't. White supremacy is some Disney shit. Works better on film. Every black man reading this could step out his door and just LOOK in the direction of a white person and not blink, and we own them. That's the power they will never have unless they get a job where they can fire a gun or hand down a jail sentence. This is why blue lives matter to them. And the 2nd amendment. They are bitches and their women know it.
When a billionaire like Marc Cuban said he would cross the street if he saw a white guy with tattoos or a black man in a hoodie. That's white inferiority. That's weakness. Without a gun, or a badge, or the power to hurt someone financially, white-people-are-weak. The second a black person has his own, the white man has nothing. So white supremacy is being able to boast of your whiteness in the company of whiteness. They need to hide their faces and show up en mass to even openly say "White Power". They dont stand alone on a street corner talking shit unless it to muslim or white women. And they usually take an L from black or hispanic women. So they cant even dominate women of color with any broad affect. They are this weak. So they drink or smoke something.
If i can just show up, and take a white bitch out the club. No Ferrari, just swagger! That's a crushing blow to white supremacy because money was the only reason any white man could look down on people of color. You could have millions......but i can fuck your wife AND your daughters, and marry into the wealth you've built. Then mix up your gene pool with my black DNA????? I win. So they have another drink. Or they smoke something. If i dick my way into your daughters life, you disown her. That guilt is palpable. That alienates you from your own wife. My patna then fucks your wife. The black guy, Terrance, at work, you've laid a path for him to slide dick into your wife, take her, and end up in the home you built all from your insecurities. Have another drink.
Heroin gives them an escape from mediocrity. That feeling of helplessness is what feeds the addictions of the rich. And further feeds the addiction of the poor and afflicted white person. So they drink or smoke a little something heavier to relax. Heroin is the black dick of death to white culture. When money and government policy cant stop it, all they can do it watch their numbers dwindle. Their women are fucking and marrying out of their race because they are weak dick, can't fight, abuse bitches. So they drink a little more. With hispanics multiplying by the day, they will become the majority within 25 years. The white man has taught the mexicans every skill they kept from blacks, and now even mexicans are bidding to build The Wall. Mexicans, heroin, and black dick in their women are the things Trump and his cronies know are gonna end their dominance in this nation. With heroin, all we gotta do is sit back and sell it to them.
So why is heroin the great equalizer? Because being white has always been a celebration. Not a day or week, but a lifetime of celebration. White people graduated, its a big party. Sweet 16. Spare no expense! White people have the biggest and most expensive everything. Again, to celebrate. They can't fathom being unhappy. We shrug shit off in a matter of hours because shit is real to us. To them, what is life if they cant celebrate having or doing something that most others can't? This is why their fraternities get disbanded. People die when white people party. So much fun, they fucking die. Think about that! The "gateway drug" bullshit was always a warning to THEM of how addiction could slow their population growth. Beer, booze, then weed, 'shrooms, then cooooooocaine maaaaaan! Whites had soooo many reasons to celebrate. And so many methods to enhance said celebrations. Now they aren't getting jobs out of college. White women want ethnic men. White women openly admit they can't fuck or dance, or fight, so they cling to power anyway they can: death and destruction. They come back from war fucked up. So they get high. Wife leaves em.. Can't find a job. A black guy punks them at work or at their favorite bar. They drink a little more or get even higher.
Now.....heroin. Good ol' sweet, abundant, inexpensive, difficult to shake, heroin.
The end of white supremacy came from being too damn happy to be white.
Now.....we wait.
Do you think the mass shootings is an outward reflection of their fragile mental reality closing in on them in ways that cannot be constructive but must end in a mass blood sacrifice?
It's understandable that so many would be on the side of team heroin, but what happens when a CAC dope fiend sticks you up for a fix? What happens when a white junkie sex worker sets up shop near your son's middle school? What happens when a redneck trucker nods out, swerves, and runs you off the freeway? Are you still going to insist on the same disastrous methods that didn't work with the crack epidemic?
It's not fair or just that white addicts get treated with kid gloves when so many Black addicts get crammed into cells. Unfortunately, their problem is about to be everybody's problem. Either we deal with it in an effective way or things will become much worse.
It's not fair or just that white addicts get treated with kid gloves when so many Black addicts get crammed into cells. Unfortunately, their problem is about to be everybody's problem. Either we deal with it in an effective way or things will become much worse.
Employers are already reacting to the many unemployable druggies with a simple remedy...
They didn't do this for blacks...
Michigan companies can't fill jobs because too many people can't pass a drug test
By Chad Selweski
A Macomb County factory owner sees a chance to increase production at his metal-stamping plant. He puts out a call for job applicants and dozens respond.
About half are rejected. Why? They cannot pass a basic pre-employment drug test.
A major manufacturing facility in Detroit furloughs workers during a downturn. When 100 of the workers are called back several months later, every one of them fails the company's drug screening, mostly for marijuana.
In Traverse City, an addiction treatment center surveys 30 companies in across the region and finds only 1-in-4 conduct drug tests. The reason: They fear the results would require them to reject or fire the workers they desperately need.
Chris Hindbaugh
"More often than not, we are finding that employers are not testing because of that problem," said Chris Hindbaugh, executive director of Addiction Treatment Services. "They'd rather not know. And that's dangerous."
Across Michigan, employers say they can't fill job openings because too many people can't pass a drug test. Shortages are particularly acute in manufacturing, construction, warehousing or shipping companies, which routinely impose pre-employment drug screening for workers who operate heavy machinery or heavy-haul trucks.
In response to worker shortages, some companies are either not testing workers or skirting the results. One example is in the service industries, from retail to restaurants, because business owners often don't view accidents as a serious issue. Others are scaling back by only testing for illegal drugs, such as marijuana or cocaine, but not for abuse of prescription medicines such as opioids.
"That's why we don't drug test," an executive at a Macomb County mold-making manufacturer told Bridge. "Because if we did, we'd have no employees."
The stress that substance abuse places on businesses and their workers shows up in higher rates of absenteeism, workplace injury and impaired performance, particularly in physically demanding industries. And because most companies lack comprehensive drug programs, fewer workers get the long-term (and often costly) treatment experts say they need to beat their addiction, even as Michigan sinks further into an opioid crisis.
Instead, workers are simply fired, perpetuating the cycle.
"It's certainly a major topic of discussion," said Andy Johnston, a Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce vice president. "Employers are struggling to fill open positions and the inability (of applicants) to pass a drug test is certainly a concern. It's really tough to deal with. It makes it tough to find a qualified job pool."
Reconsidering drug testing
It's difficult to gauge the extent to which drug abuse and drug testing impact statewide employment rates. Michigan does not collect comprehensive data on workers who lose jobs from failed results. And companies and academics say it's impossible to know how many potential job candidates simply walk away from job opportunities once they learn there is a drug test.
Wendy Block, director of health policy for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, said failed tests are a constant concern among frustrated employers. In addition to opioids, the prevalence of medical marijuana and the prospect that Michigan voters may legalize recreational marijuana usage in 2018 has businesses wondering how to maintain a safe and sober workforce.
Companies, she said, also are increasingly questioning the benefit and consequences of drug testing. For example, does testing positive for smoking pot on the weekend actually indicate a worker would be impaired on the job Monday morning? So many factors can have an impact on test results.
"Many employers have started questioning the value of drug tests when they experience large pools of applicants who fail," Block said. "You cannot rule these people out in a tight job market. Given the current labor market, employers are looking at all applicants — in many industries."
Workplace drug screening remains a sensitive topic among business owners. Bridge interviewed dozens of employers, industry groups, academics and workers across Michigan. Many business owners and consultants agreed to talk on condition they and their companies or clients not be identified. That includes the companies cited at the top of this article.
Employers' frustration is palpable.
"There are many very qualified job candidates where the only issue keeping them from a solid job with growth potential is the inability to pass a simple drug test," said one executive, who works at a wood products supply company in Oakland County. "It's hard on the employer, and on the employee."
That sounds about right to Steve Fishman, 55, who works as a bartender and server at two Detroit-area restaurants. He has been clean for more than four years after abusing opioids, which then led to a heroin addiction.
Fishman said he has met former addicts in recovery programs who lost hope for their futures after failed attempts at treatment and getting back in the workforce.
"It's such a struggle for them because they can't pass a drug test," Fishman said. "Or they're so high — or going through painful withdrawals — that they can't maintain employment until they get clean."
Drug treatment experts say some jobless workers, ravaged by the self-defeating duo of drug addiction and depression, gradually view themselves as unemployable. Substance abuse is one of several factors leading to Michigan's high worker-disability rates, and is one reason why only 62 percent of working-age Michigan residents hold a job or are looking for one.
Meanwhile, said Hindbaugh, the Traverse City treatment specialist, the imperative of business owners to fill jobs, despite potential danger signs, increases the risk of injury or accident. He said businesses would be wiser to develop a coherent, empathetic approach to finding help for workers who need it.
"They'd rather turn a blind eye," Hindbaugh said. "When we ask, 'Do you do testing?', they say, 'Well, we can't get employees if we do that.' So, they're just kicking the can down the road."
No county is immune
Research indicates Michigan's drug abuse problem is at an all-time high. A study released in May found Michigan ranks 10th for drug use and addiction among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with analysts considering such factors as abuse of prescription drugs, illicit drugs and the rate of overdose deaths.
In 2015, Michigan recorded 1,981 fatal drug overdoses — more than five per day — with nearly half related to opioids. That death rate represents more than a 10-fold increase from 1999
No part of the state is immune. The highest rates of overdose deaths, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services, are nearly all in southern counties. Yet in the last five years, opioid prescriptions were highest in rural areas of the state, with Roscommon County in northern Michigan among the top 1 percent of counties nationally.
According to Gov. Rick Snyder's administration, painkiller prescriptions in Michigan rose four-fold between 2007 and 2014. Dosages prescribed for high-potency drugs, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, come out to about 75 pills annually for every Michigan resident.
Treatment professionals say the physical nature of some jobs explains why some workers are more susceptible to prescription abuse.
According to a survey by CompPharma, an industry group that seeks to control employee health care costs, 10 times as much is spent on opioids for worker injuries than on all other medical problems covered by insurance.
Here's a typical scenario: A company-associated medical clinic will prescribe a painkiller, often for months, to help workers cope with an injury. That can lead to dependency, which then leads to "doctor shopping" for duplicate prescriptions, or visiting so-called "pill mills." Back on the job, these workers then test positive in a random drug test. In the end, they are fired rather than sent for treatment.
Brian Spitsbergen, a veteran of the drug treatment business, said workers are more likely these days to abuse prescription medication than to feed their addiction through a drug sale on the streets.
Brian Spitsbergen of Plymouth, who has been in the drug treatment business for more than 25 years, said workers are less likely to risk a shady street-corner sale when they can quench their addiction by opening the home medicine cabinet. Once fired, studies indicate idle workers are prone to abuse opioids as they struggle with unemployment. Some may turn to heroin, which is cheaper than prescription medication.
Critics say the state can limit this kind of downward spiral by doing more to crack down on prescription abuse. The nonprofit National Safety Council in 2016 ranked Michigan among the nation's three worst states in crafting safeguards that help to minimize prescription abuse.
Employers balk at treatment
According to the Society for Human Resource Management, 57 percent of U.S. companies engage in some type of drug testing, while nearly one-third do not test under any circumstances. The drug screening process typically ranges from pre-employment testing to testing current workers randomly or when there is reason to be suspicious.
Drug treatment professionals say businesses should do away with a simple pass/fail approach to random testing, in which workers are automatically fired if drugs are found in their system. But most employers are not willing to grant drug-dependent employees the typical four to six weeks of time off for treatment while they try to become drug-free.
Indeed, about 40 percent of U.S. company owners and executives surveyed say they view a positive drug test as evidence the worker cannot be trusted or suffers from a "moral or ethical failure."
Treatment specialists cringe at such attitudes.
"As a society, we need to understand that addiction is a health care issue, not a criminal justice issue," said Tom Watkins, former director of the Detroit-Wayne Mental Health Authority, which oversees drug treatment throughout Wayne County.
"More effort needs to be made to properly diagnosis, treat and support those who are addicted and to not force individuals that test positive for substance use out of the job market."
One worker-friendly approach to drug abuse is being embraced by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Vicki Bucciere, owner of Bluewater Behavioral Services, a treatment/counseling center in Northville, works with USDOT to evaluate workers in "safety sensitive" jobs. Those include federally regulated employees in the trucking, rail, airline, pipeline and shipping industries.
USDOT policy allows employees with a drug problem to complete a treatment program and, once they test negative and are again deemed safe, they become eligible to return to work.
Bucciere said business owners who shun a similar path and hope for the best will see that approach will "catch up with them" because opioid addiction requires intensive treatment, and with relapses not uncommon.
For those drowning in addiction, nothing comes easy, and maintaining a job isn't necessarily at the top of the list.
Fishman, the bartender who made a comeback, said employers who believe drug users lack discipline and don't want to work fail to understand that addiction causes countless self-destructive setbacks beyond failure in the job market.
"I needed to get high to function. I needed to get high to go to work," he said. "I paid a huge price in a lot of different ways — I lost my marriage, I lost my relationship with my kids … If I didn't fix my mess, it would have ended permanently because I would be dead."
Michigan fighting failure
The report issued last July by the National Safety Council, which is authorized by Congress to help reduce accidents and injuries, established basic criteria for tackling the opioid crisis. They include safeguards that make it harder for patients to obtain prescriptions from multiple doctors, more training for doctors on responsible pain management, and expanding treatment programs for substance abusers.
Michigan failed to meet those standards and was one of just three states the council said had made no progress.
Snyder's administration took several steps over the past year to correct the state's shortcomings. A 17-member commission, which includes a Macomb County judge whose daughter fought through a heroin addiction, oversees the transition.
In addition, a package of bills introduced in the Legislature in March could tackle many facets of the opioid crisis, including a requirement that doctors use a new computerized system to keep tabs on a patient's history of prescription drug use.
"Michigan has recently made great strides in our fight against the opioid epidemic," Lt. Gov. Brian Calley told Bridge, noting the recent bills, which include increased penalties for overprescribing doctors.
Attorney General Bill Schuette recently said the state needs a mix of better drug treatment programs plus a crackdown on illegal trafficking of opioids. But he warned that "we can't arrest our way out of this problem."
In the meantime, treatment advocates say there has to be more coordination between treatment professionals and the business community, and employers need to reconsider their approach to substance abuse.
Business owners didn't ask for this problem. But across Michigan today, it is right on their doorstep, knocking to get in.
They didn't do this for blacks...
Michigan companies can't fill jobs because too many people can't pass a drug test
By Chad Selweski
A Macomb County factory owner sees a chance to increase production at his metal-stamping plant. He puts out a call for job applicants and dozens respond.
About half are rejected. Why? They cannot pass a basic pre-employment drug test.
A major manufacturing facility in Detroit furloughs workers during a downturn. When 100 of the workers are called back several months later, every one of them fails the company's drug screening, mostly for marijuana.
In Traverse City, an addiction treatment center surveys 30 companies in across the region and finds only 1-in-4 conduct drug tests. The reason: They fear the results would require them to reject or fire the workers they desperately need.
Chris Hindbaugh
"More often than not, we are finding that employers are not testing because of that problem," said Chris Hindbaugh, executive director of Addiction Treatment Services. "They'd rather not know. And that's dangerous."
Across Michigan, employers say they can't fill job openings because too many people can't pass a drug test. Shortages are particularly acute in manufacturing, construction, warehousing or shipping companies, which routinely impose pre-employment drug screening for workers who operate heavy machinery or heavy-haul trucks.
In response to worker shortages, some companies are either not testing workers or skirting the results. One example is in the service industries, from retail to restaurants, because business owners often don't view accidents as a serious issue. Others are scaling back by only testing for illegal drugs, such as marijuana or cocaine, but not for abuse of prescription medicines such as opioids.
"That's why we don't drug test," an executive at a Macomb County mold-making manufacturer told Bridge. "Because if we did, we'd have no employees."
The stress that substance abuse places on businesses and their workers shows up in higher rates of absenteeism, workplace injury and impaired performance, particularly in physically demanding industries. And because most companies lack comprehensive drug programs, fewer workers get the long-term (and often costly) treatment experts say they need to beat their addiction, even as Michigan sinks further into an opioid crisis.
Instead, workers are simply fired, perpetuating the cycle.
"It's certainly a major topic of discussion," said Andy Johnston, a Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce vice president. "Employers are struggling to fill open positions and the inability (of applicants) to pass a drug test is certainly a concern. It's really tough to deal with. It makes it tough to find a qualified job pool."
Reconsidering drug testing
It's difficult to gauge the extent to which drug abuse and drug testing impact statewide employment rates. Michigan does not collect comprehensive data on workers who lose jobs from failed results. And companies and academics say it's impossible to know how many potential job candidates simply walk away from job opportunities once they learn there is a drug test.
Wendy Block, director of health policy for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, said failed tests are a constant concern among frustrated employers. In addition to opioids, the prevalence of medical marijuana and the prospect that Michigan voters may legalize recreational marijuana usage in 2018 has businesses wondering how to maintain a safe and sober workforce.
Companies, she said, also are increasingly questioning the benefit and consequences of drug testing. For example, does testing positive for smoking pot on the weekend actually indicate a worker would be impaired on the job Monday morning? So many factors can have an impact on test results.
"Many employers have started questioning the value of drug tests when they experience large pools of applicants who fail," Block said. "You cannot rule these people out in a tight job market. Given the current labor market, employers are looking at all applicants — in many industries."
Workplace drug screening remains a sensitive topic among business owners. Bridge interviewed dozens of employers, industry groups, academics and workers across Michigan. Many business owners and consultants agreed to talk on condition they and their companies or clients not be identified. That includes the companies cited at the top of this article.
Employers' frustration is palpable.
"There are many very qualified job candidates where the only issue keeping them from a solid job with growth potential is the inability to pass a simple drug test," said one executive, who works at a wood products supply company in Oakland County. "It's hard on the employer, and on the employee."
That sounds about right to Steve Fishman, 55, who works as a bartender and server at two Detroit-area restaurants. He has been clean for more than four years after abusing opioids, which then led to a heroin addiction.
Fishman said he has met former addicts in recovery programs who lost hope for their futures after failed attempts at treatment and getting back in the workforce.
"It's such a struggle for them because they can't pass a drug test," Fishman said. "Or they're so high — or going through painful withdrawals — that they can't maintain employment until they get clean."
Drug treatment experts say some jobless workers, ravaged by the self-defeating duo of drug addiction and depression, gradually view themselves as unemployable. Substance abuse is one of several factors leading to Michigan's high worker-disability rates, and is one reason why only 62 percent of working-age Michigan residents hold a job or are looking for one.
Meanwhile, said Hindbaugh, the Traverse City treatment specialist, the imperative of business owners to fill jobs, despite potential danger signs, increases the risk of injury or accident. He said businesses would be wiser to develop a coherent, empathetic approach to finding help for workers who need it.
"They'd rather turn a blind eye," Hindbaugh said. "When we ask, 'Do you do testing?', they say, 'Well, we can't get employees if we do that.' So, they're just kicking the can down the road."
No county is immune
Research indicates Michigan's drug abuse problem is at an all-time high. A study released in May found Michigan ranks 10th for drug use and addiction among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with analysts considering such factors as abuse of prescription drugs, illicit drugs and the rate of overdose deaths.
In 2015, Michigan recorded 1,981 fatal drug overdoses — more than five per day — with nearly half related to opioids. That death rate represents more than a 10-fold increase from 1999
No part of the state is immune. The highest rates of overdose deaths, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services, are nearly all in southern counties. Yet in the last five years, opioid prescriptions were highest in rural areas of the state, with Roscommon County in northern Michigan among the top 1 percent of counties nationally.
According to Gov. Rick Snyder's administration, painkiller prescriptions in Michigan rose four-fold between 2007 and 2014. Dosages prescribed for high-potency drugs, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, come out to about 75 pills annually for every Michigan resident.
Treatment professionals say the physical nature of some jobs explains why some workers are more susceptible to prescription abuse.
According to a survey by CompPharma, an industry group that seeks to control employee health care costs, 10 times as much is spent on opioids for worker injuries than on all other medical problems covered by insurance.
Here's a typical scenario: A company-associated medical clinic will prescribe a painkiller, often for months, to help workers cope with an injury. That can lead to dependency, which then leads to "doctor shopping" for duplicate prescriptions, or visiting so-called "pill mills." Back on the job, these workers then test positive in a random drug test. In the end, they are fired rather than sent for treatment.
Brian Spitsbergen, a veteran of the drug treatment business, said workers are more likely these days to abuse prescription medication than to feed their addiction through a drug sale on the streets.
Brian Spitsbergen of Plymouth, who has been in the drug treatment business for more than 25 years, said workers are less likely to risk a shady street-corner sale when they can quench their addiction by opening the home medicine cabinet. Once fired, studies indicate idle workers are prone to abuse opioids as they struggle with unemployment. Some may turn to heroin, which is cheaper than prescription medication.
Critics say the state can limit this kind of downward spiral by doing more to crack down on prescription abuse. The nonprofit National Safety Council in 2016 ranked Michigan among the nation's three worst states in crafting safeguards that help to minimize prescription abuse.
Employers balk at treatment
According to the Society for Human Resource Management, 57 percent of U.S. companies engage in some type of drug testing, while nearly one-third do not test under any circumstances. The drug screening process typically ranges from pre-employment testing to testing current workers randomly or when there is reason to be suspicious.
Drug treatment professionals say businesses should do away with a simple pass/fail approach to random testing, in which workers are automatically fired if drugs are found in their system. But most employers are not willing to grant drug-dependent employees the typical four to six weeks of time off for treatment while they try to become drug-free.
Indeed, about 40 percent of U.S. company owners and executives surveyed say they view a positive drug test as evidence the worker cannot be trusted or suffers from a "moral or ethical failure."
Treatment specialists cringe at such attitudes.
"As a society, we need to understand that addiction is a health care issue, not a criminal justice issue," said Tom Watkins, former director of the Detroit-Wayne Mental Health Authority, which oversees drug treatment throughout Wayne County.
"More effort needs to be made to properly diagnosis, treat and support those who are addicted and to not force individuals that test positive for substance use out of the job market."
One worker-friendly approach to drug abuse is being embraced by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Vicki Bucciere, owner of Bluewater Behavioral Services, a treatment/counseling center in Northville, works with USDOT to evaluate workers in "safety sensitive" jobs. Those include federally regulated employees in the trucking, rail, airline, pipeline and shipping industries.
USDOT policy allows employees with a drug problem to complete a treatment program and, once they test negative and are again deemed safe, they become eligible to return to work.
Bucciere said business owners who shun a similar path and hope for the best will see that approach will "catch up with them" because opioid addiction requires intensive treatment, and with relapses not uncommon.
For those drowning in addiction, nothing comes easy, and maintaining a job isn't necessarily at the top of the list.
Fishman, the bartender who made a comeback, said employers who believe drug users lack discipline and don't want to work fail to understand that addiction causes countless self-destructive setbacks beyond failure in the job market.
"I needed to get high to function. I needed to get high to go to work," he said. "I paid a huge price in a lot of different ways — I lost my marriage, I lost my relationship with my kids … If I didn't fix my mess, it would have ended permanently because I would be dead."
Michigan fighting failure
The report issued last July by the National Safety Council, which is authorized by Congress to help reduce accidents and injuries, established basic criteria for tackling the opioid crisis. They include safeguards that make it harder for patients to obtain prescriptions from multiple doctors, more training for doctors on responsible pain management, and expanding treatment programs for substance abusers.
Michigan failed to meet those standards and was one of just three states the council said had made no progress.
Snyder's administration took several steps over the past year to correct the state's shortcomings. A 17-member commission, which includes a Macomb County judge whose daughter fought through a heroin addiction, oversees the transition.
In addition, a package of bills introduced in the Legislature in March could tackle many facets of the opioid crisis, including a requirement that doctors use a new computerized system to keep tabs on a patient's history of prescription drug use.
"Michigan has recently made great strides in our fight against the opioid epidemic," Lt. Gov. Brian Calley told Bridge, noting the recent bills, which include increased penalties for overprescribing doctors.
Attorney General Bill Schuette recently said the state needs a mix of better drug treatment programs plus a crackdown on illegal trafficking of opioids. But he warned that "we can't arrest our way out of this problem."
In the meantime, treatment advocates say there has to be more coordination between treatment professionals and the business community, and employers need to reconsider their approach to substance abuse.
Business owners didn't ask for this problem. But across Michigan today, it is right on their doorstep, knocking to get in.