I Want A New Drug
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 09:23PM
Allergies are in charge of my head right now and sleep alludes me....
After an hour of trying this morning I finally did fall into a deep sleep. I had the most delicious dream involving Ashton Kutcher of all people. We all know I'm crazed about my boy Justin Timberlake. Well, I may have to change my loyalties because my dream took "that loving feeling" to a whole different level. Maybe deep down I knew Ashton appreciates a more mature woman? As much as I truly hate napping, I did not want to wake up from this one.
Fall colors are bursting around here, along with the mold levels the decaying leaves giving me a non-stop headache. Left untreated my head throbs, my entire face hurts and my left ear aches and feels full. Since I totally believe in better life through pharmacology I break out my Allegra (antihistamine) and eat more Motrin than is medically appropriate.
When that is not enough I break out the Sudafed, with which I have a love-hate relationship. Oh, it unclogs me. The 12 hour extended release tab works the best, but if I take enough to do the job it makes me not sleep. Even if I just take one in the morning. So, now I'll switch back to the short acting little red guys and put up with the headache that's sure to be upon me by evening.
I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick, one that won't make me crash my car, or make me feel 3 feet thick. I want a new drug, one that won't go away, one that won't keep me up all night, one that won't make me sleep all day....
Who would have thought I could get so much mileage out of that Huey Lewis song, "I Want A New Drug". Go ahead, click and listen, I'll wait.
I've had a totally unproductiveve week due to a lack of solid sleep. Not getting my stuff done makes me crazy. It's hard to complete all my tasks, fit in a workout and be a reasonable person because I'm whackadoo. I stink at napping.
So my wasted time this week at least left me with some lingering good memories. I was, however being quite serious when I said I Want A New Drug. Obtaining Sudafed is beginning to make me feel like a criminal. Those posers they've left out on the pharmacy shelves do not work. No, you have to go to the pharmacist and ask her for the real deal behind the counter. You had better have ID and be willing for them to enter you into some drug data base in the sky.
You want to stock up because you have more than one allergy sufferer at home? Too bad. They can only sell you 3.6 grams of those little red devils on any given day. The law varies state by state, in some states they limit how many times you can buy pseudoephed products in a month's time.
They say they need to control who is buying the drug because it can easily be turned into the dangerous street drug Crystal Meth, aka Ice, Tina, Nazi Crank (it's rumored Adolph Hitler injected it daily). It's cheap, and has versatile modes of ingestion. It can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected and it is one of the most addictive substances ever created. Prescribed for ailments like narcolepsy, post encephalitic Parkinsons and obesity in the 1950's, illegal production began in homes in the 1960's. $1000 worth of Crystal Meth can produced from $80 worth of readily available products.
It's a drug that will make you look like you have been "rode hard and put up wet" as the saying goes. It accelerates aging, deteriorates tooth enamel (meth mouth), eliminates appetite leading to sudden and extreme weight loss.Users often experience intense itching (speed bugs) that leads to open sores on their skin. Sounds lovely doesn't it?
Here in suburbimania I thought, how common is that really? Is the government just trying to make my life harder by any method they can come up with? Then during my travels this summer I had a chance to witness the craziness surrounding the people who use and produce this up close. In the midst of rural beauty I was up close and personal with a relatives problem neighbor.
This drug den, well known to everyone in the neighborhood. Notice the multiple huge garbage cans out in front of a home occupied by 2 people. Fencing was stolen from a local Home Depot and installed haphazardly along roadside.
Meth lab and drug storage out in back, clearly visable from neighbors properties.
Suspects vehicle parked without permission on a neighbors property after the commission of a crime involving a handgun. Even though the suspect was considered "armed and dangerous" it took local authorities hours to respond to calls from the homeowner reporting vehicle.
Arrest scene 3 miles from suspected Drug Den, made only after local neighbors called and reported seeing suspect get into pictured van and leave his home. This picture does not show the 20 emergency vehicles involved in this arrest.
Even more frustrating is that even though 2 men were arrested with a handgun and marijuana in the vehicle they were both out of jail before sunset. The one who aided the suspect in his attempted escape was not charged with a single thing. The suspected drug maker, with a long standing history of mental illness, criminal record including violent crimes is back in his drug den as I write this, doing business as usual. He continues to terrorize his neighbors with his erratic and violent behavior, disrupting an otherwise quiet rural area populated by hardworking families.
It's obvious I watch way too much CSI and NCIS ( I can't help it, have you ever seen how hunky those guys on NCIS are?) because I was SHOCKED that the local police NEVER EVEN SEARCHED THIS SUSPECTS HOME during the 24 hours they were "looking" for him after he attempted to kill someone (who allegedly owed him money) by shooting at them. Are you telling me they couldn't get a search warrant for a suspect's home who is considered armed and dangerous?
I realize there is a big divide between tv shows and real life law enforcement and that there are different responses to reported crimes in any given locality. In the city of Detroit you need to have committed an extremely violent crime in order to garner police attention. Twenty miles away in my hood, it could be as simple as throwing a tissue out of your car window. You can refresh your memory of my run in with the law by reading Can I Still Blog From Jail?
Could someone alert Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Merke, Novartis, Eli Lilly that we need a new drug? A fantastic decongestant that can't be easily turned into Crystal Meth. While they are at it if they could alter it so it won't keep me up all night or make me sleep all day, that would be appreciated.
Ashton Kutcher, allergies, head aches, pseudoephed, war on drugs
Reader Comments (9)
Man, I'm so glad I don't have to deal with all that......
appreciated the snap of Ashton!
Oh, man, if the schools start complaining about it being unsafe for kids, there'll be action. Is there a bus stop nearby?
Yet another example of what happens when the government over-intervenes. Wouldn't it be smarter to let people buy a lot of the needed ingredients and then have the drug stores be held legally responsible to quickly call the police, possibly get a license plate number and have the police catch them in the act? That way good citizens, such as yourself, could buy your truly needed medication and live happily ever after - even if sleep deprived.
As we watch the lines of people trying to get swine flu - oh, sorry, H1N1, vaccinations that are nonexistent and yet half the people of this country WANT the government to control our health care!!!
As for the joke (although not at all funny to the neighbors!) of the police slowly but finally arresting the bad guy, only to have the courts let him out of jail and back on the street and in the lab WHERE IS BARNEY FIFE WHEN YOU REALLY NEED HIM?!?
All this to say, hope you feel better soon!!! Even with a nasty headache, girl you are a hoot!!! :)
When you go to the drugstore they totally keep track of how often you buy sudafed. They even look at your address. So if you had someone else in your household go try to buy it they might not sell it to them. Crazy, right? Feel better.
I am clearly and obviously running a meth lab. I buy a giant box of Claritin D once a month, whether I need it or not. I send hubby once a month whether we need it or not. I send every child over 18 once a month whether we need it or not. Because when we need it...we run out in a day.
I guess we all need to buy the stuff every day throughout the year so we'll be well-stocked when flu season rolls around. In the meantime, try a shot of whiskey. You should get at least two hours' relief from it. (Oh, and it's not rationed at the store so you can buy all you need).
Feel better!
Too funny! I only slept 3 hours Sat night (so much for the extra hour due to time change) thanks to some Sudafed I bought for my sinus congestion. I did feel like a criminal for paying the $7.99 at the Rx counter at Target. And then at home I realized I already had a box from same store about 6 months earlier. Betcha they are watching me now.
i joked to the hubs that the people who compromised our debit cards last month were meth makers. most of the charges were from convenience stores and drug stores, i think they were making the rounds. oh, and then they stopped at mcdonald's and charged $3-4.
i can't believe how long it took the cops to respond to that situation. we're big csi fans here too and though i know the difference between tv and reality, sometimes i wonder what reality cops are doing.