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02-14-2009, 08:31 PM | #1 |
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Last night it was a special about the poverty in southeastern Ky's Appalachian mountains. Unfortunately it is an accurate portrayal of how things are in a lot of counties around here especially with regards to the prescription drug problems.
The reason I'm writing this is because the ex-mayor of my hometown was featured on it. For those who saw the show he was the guy walking into the courthouse who had been indicted for trading prescription pills for votes in the 06 election. Honestly if the national media learned a fraction of the illegal stuff that has happened and continues to happen in such a small town, they would have enough new material to do these kind of specials for the next 10 years. |
02-14-2009, 09:14 PM | #2 |
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I hear yah on that one. Boy, do I hear you. I know all about being screwed by local government.
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02-14-2009, 09:50 PM | #3 |
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Trust me I know. My parents are from Paintsville, KY (the place that football player was from) they got the hell out at 18 in 1965 and never went back. A lot of my extended family lives there. We don't visit often it is really sad the condition that place is in. Did you hear the Indian doctor say that this was a poorer place than were he was from in India. Where are these people's bail out Barrack?
Did you see that the producers of Oxycotin basically hooked the entire population of this area. It's all F'd up in that part of the country. |
02-14-2009, 11:52 PM | #4 |
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It really makes me angry that the media always seeks out the worst situations whenever a show about Ky is made. There are a lot of good, hard working people who live in the mountains. Yes drugs are very bad here, but there really isn't a whole lot else folks to do. I know that around here on the 1st of the month when the govt. checks are given out we get swamped with people from deep in the hollows that come to buy groceries and smokes then go back home till next month. Watching how some of these folks act it's as if they've given up all hope on life. The govt. is partially to blame by making it so easy to just exist on welfare and not strive for anything better. There is some industry but not a lot. Its just become easier and more tempting to get a check and sell pills, than it is to attempt at a better life. Again, not all people here are like that.
Since that bailout got passed it seems like more good would come from sending some money here to start industry and provide drug awareness, instead of funding fish migration study or Harry Reids multi-billion dollar high speed train from L.A. to L.V. I'm currently trying to sell my house and when I do I'm leaving this state behind for good. I been back almost 3 years and its aged me 10. |
02-15-2009, 12:48 AM | #5 |
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There is no bailout for this area. One of Obama's campaign plans was to shut down all coal burning factories. All this does is put the good hardworking people from eastern KY out of work. I am from Hazard, Ky. I now live in Lexington. It is a world of difference. My family still lives in Hazard. My father is disabled and rightfully so. He worked for 10 years longer than he should have because he didnt want to be categorized with some of the people on disability. He had a piece of railroad track fall on his leg and was told he had two choices: cut it off or try a surgery that had only been performed three times and never in the USA. It worked but caused other health issues. Now he lives in constant pain and wont take his pain medication because of the chance of getting hooked. He was offered oxycontin but turned them down. 20/20 dont tell this kind of story. There are very many good people in the appalachian mountains. Mayor Bill Gorman(which was mentioned in the special) is one of the best people Ive ever met. Unforntunately everything shown in the special is true and there are people that are in worse shape than what they showed. I know people that dont have running water in their homes. How sad is that.
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02-15-2009, 01:26 PM | #6 |
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I live in Pineville and get my news from Hazard
Sorry to hear about your father. My dad worked at a strip mine and had a boulder fall on his foot. The docs wanted to amputate but he wouldn't let them. He was in the hospital for months having reconstructions done and finally was able to go back to work for almost 20 years. Its kinda funny that during the campain some coal miners in Harlan were asked about their pick for president. They were all saying how Obama was going to take care of them and get the economy moving again. This was after he said that he would "bankrupt" the coal industry. For those who don't know, Harlan is a mining town that the union runs so you're not allowed to speak out against any of there policies unless your prepared to be blacklisted from ever finding another job. Funny how the unions around here are too corrupt to understand the threat he poses to their livelyhood. They've already ruined Americas auto industry. |
02-17-2009, 02:38 AM | #7 |
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I have a friend in Missouri whose mom has some destitute family like this in Kentucky. They always dreaded visiting them because they didn't have running water. Don't know if it's still like that (this was in the mid-1990's).
I work at a drug rehab clinic and I promise you that prescription drugs are as bad as crystal meth and crack. Whatever pharmaceutical company produces Xanax and Lortab might as well have a massive gold fountain proclaiming "The World Is Yours" in the lobby of their corporate headquarters and conduct their meetings from a giant bathtub. You never hear about that on the news, though, I'm sure because the pharmaceutical and medical industries pay a lot of money to keep it hushed up and the news focused on "street" drugs. I've never known anyone who used Xanax regularly, even as prescribed, who didn't get hooked on it. Same with Lortabs. Most start popping them constantly and develop a most tedious "pill personality." I've got a friend this is happening to right now. I've tried to warn her but they've already got their chemical hooks in her. I once knew a nurse who said that Oxycontin was in the beginning intended only for patients undergoing chemotherapy and enduring the severe pain that causes, but now you can get it for a splinter. |
02-17-2009, 02:41 AM | #8 |
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I saw this program too, and it makes me wonder why the hell the USA sends out billions of dollars in foreign aid when we don't even take care of our fellow Americans first.
Really made me upset to see AMERICANS having to live like that. |
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02-17-2009, 09:37 AM | #9 |
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Amen to that. Instead we want to send money to Africa to help Abortion. Go figure.
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02-17-2009, 09:47 AM | #10 |
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Last night it was a special about the poverty in southeastern Ky's Appalachian mountains. Unfortunately it is an accurate portrayal of how things are in a lot of counties around here especially with regards to the prescription drug problems.
The reason I'm writing this is because the ex-mayor of my hometown was featured on it. For those who saw the show he was the guy walking into the courthouse who had been indicted for trading prescription pills for votes in the 06 election. Honestly if the national media learned a fraction of the illegal stuff that has happened and continues to happen in such a small town, they would have enough new material to do these kind of specials for the next 10 years. |
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