this is a far bigger problem than this story is alluding to but because the problem deals with "legit" drugs it may never get the real coverage it deserves.
notice the drugs this story was talking about?oxycodone,to be more specific-roxxisetts-100% painkiller,no actimetophin or bufferin which means they can be cooked down and injected.along with oxycontin this is the favorite drug on the street.where can they get such easy access to these prescription drugs?you just watched the video...pill mills.

i cant speak for anywhere else,but i have lost 7 friends in the past five years due to oxycontin/xanax overdoses.they get high..go to sleep and never wake up.this is a very personal story to me,due to the fact that i counsel many people struggling with this overwhelming addiction.
and you are right duckman,and it pisses me off to no end seeing how other drugs,weed included,are demonized while the most abused drug in america is painkillers.thanks for posting this,maybe the message might get out.
i have watched too many lives be destroyed over supposedly "legal" drugs.

*and before anybody says anything.while i agree that it is ultimately the persons responsibility to inform themselves and take medication as prescribed.many people actually trust their doctor and do take as prescribed,but when the doctor prescribes 300 roxy 30's for a MONTH...well,thats not the patients fault,thats a doctor looking to cash in on a sales bonus.let me break that prescription down for those who may not know.
roxy 30=3 perc 10's=3000 mg's pure oxycodone.
300 prescribed a month means 10 roxy 30's a day=30,000 mg's
thats a HUGE amount of painkiller.
lets consider a few more factors.
it can take as little as seven days to actually feel a withdrawal from painkillers.
the body can only process around 4000 mg's of oxycodone in a 12 hr period.
so not only will a person become a junkie by following doctors orders,but most likely will experience problems with liver/kidney functions fairly soon.
this whole mess really pisses me off and i wish i could do something about it.
im sure there are some here who can break this down far better than me,but its a far bigger problem than we have been lead to believe.
thanks for posting duckman,and thanks for listening.

http://lyricwiki.org/City_And_Colour:The_Girl

I wish I
Could do better by
You, 'cause that's what you deserve
You sacrifice
So much of your life
In order for this to work

While I'm off chasing my own dreams
Sailing around the world
Please know that I'm yours to keep
My beautiful girl

And when you cry
A piece of my heart dies
Knowing that I may have been the cause
If you were to leave
Fulfill someone else's dreams
I think I might totally be lost

You don't ask for no diamond rings
No delicate strings of pearls
That's why I wrote this song to sing
My beautiful girl

Oooh...

1, 2
1, 2, 3, 4

I wish I
Could do better by
You, 'cause it's what you deserve
You sacrifice
So much of your life
In order for this to work

While I'm off chasing my own dreams (my own dreams)
And sailing around the world (around the world)
Please know that I'm yours to keep
My beautiful girl

And when you cry
A piece of my heart dies
Knowing that I may have been the cause
If you were to leave
And fulfill someone else's dreams
I think I might totally be lost

But you don't ask for no diamond rings (diamond rings)
No delicate string of pearls (string of pearls)
That's why I wrote this song to sing
My beautiful girl

Ohh...

But you don't ask for no diamond rings (diamond rings)
No delicate string of pearls (string of pearls)
That's why I wrote this song to sing
My beautiful girl

I get so distracted
By some people's reactions
I don't see my own faults
For what they are.

Did the text crocodiles get their own little text aquarium in a text zoo?

I wish I could do photography this well

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You're a teacher, right?

I think you'll enjoy this one: http://www.videosift.com/video/What-do-teachers-make
thanks bud!
wish i could do slam poetry and this guy really was fantastic!

Looks like someone turned up the lasers too high at the end. Wish I could do that with Call of Duty sometimes...

Lindy hop is an awesome dance I wish I could do it.

Walmart has destroyed countless small businesses and replaced them with low paying warehouses selling cheap ass plastic crap.

Leftists always use this line about how the "poor small businesses" are ruined by Walmart, yet they're the same ones that want to tax the f**k out of small businesses so they can barely function. And how many employees can small businesses hire, even if they wanted to?

And of course, much of it was made possible by Clinton making China trading partner #1...enabling the Chinese to sell pure crap here at low prices, putting US industry/suppliers out of business and hurting the average worker

I ask all of you: of all the stuff you own, what percentage is stuff you keep for five years or more? I bet it's sentimental stuff, handmade stuff, stuff you made yourself or got as gifts, or larger investments like your car, big appliances, furniture. A lot of what you call "crap" are necessary items that are cheaper to replace. Walmart is obviously fulfilling a need, that ISN'T being fulfilled by crocodile tears from "poverty activists".

And for those so arrogant as to assume they know what even one other person "needs"---provided they're willing to humor you--you've got a long night of latte-sipping and convincing ahead of you, at the end of which you will only discover how much you have to learn.

QM, you are a serious idiot, but at least your pathetic drivel is funny.

Wish I could say the same about your green party soundbites, but they've been cut-n-pasted from Daily Kos too many times to count.

What I wish I could do with all of you who "hate" Walmart is make you run your own brick-and-mortar business for a year. See how 'easy' it is to make a profit.

I am seriously envious of people with this level of artistic talent. I have always wished I could do stuff like this.

Great sift, thanks.

*promote *save *whatever I wish I could do...
I love this one.

KP, you can now invoke *assgravy whenever you want Siftie to automatically "congratulate" someone on your behalf. This will save you all that time making shit up and pretending you like people on here and acting like you give two piles of dookie about someone's "quality contribution to the site". Basically, that's what I wish I could do for you right now. Just give you a big ol' bowl of greasy *assgravy, dude. *assgravy.

Shit, I wish I could do that.

i wish i could do something that would make me relevant in 100 years... sad, those thoughts

Amazing talent. I wish I could do this for a living.

"Everyone has a cross to bear, some more readily visible than others. This does not mean that everyone is a victim, however. I'd downvote this if I could simply because sometime in the past decades it became socially encouraged to claim victim status as the solution to every problem."

I totally agree. To paraphrase Aeschylus: humanity is suffering. As you say, everyone in the world has a cross to bear, a source of suffering that they wish they could do without. Guess what? We're humans, not gods, and suffering is just part of the game we have to play.

That said, there are sources of real tragedy and there are sources of minor discomfort. Being too good looking would certainly fall into the latter category. Would any of these people interviewed trade in their good looks for a world in which the mortality rate for children was over 50%? Had they been born just 200 years ago, or in the developing world for that matter, the best looks in the world wouldn't save them from the experience of losing several children. As others have pointed out, the interviewees are all wearing trendy clothing and have absolutely perfect teeth. This suggests to me that none of them have had to experience the grinding desperation that is poverty. It is also highly unlikely that any of the men interviewed will be forced to fight in a war during their lifetime; in the ancient Greek world there was no such thing as a conscientious objector, warfare was incessant, and roughly half of all adult men would die on the battlefield as opposed to old age.

I could go on, but the point is that to live in the modern, industrialized world is to live as securely, prosperously and removed from suffering as human beings have ever been in our 150,000 year history as a species. Someone being "too good looking" is such a minor concern when put in the perspective of the developing world and the human past. If the greatest source of hardship in someone's life is that their good looks cause them some minor social discomfort, then they need to stop claiming victim status, wake up and get some perspective.

I just heard, and send in a cool 1.50! Nah, it was 30 Wish I could do better tho! I'm having to hold back for a double house payment in Jan. ( I still haven't unloaded my house in N.C.)