Senior Citizens Dealing Drugs
A recent Associated Press article reveals that authorities in Kentucky have busted a drug peddling syndicate that rivals a New York narcotics ring - among senior citizens in dirt-poor Appalachia!
As it turns out, a large number of elderly patients in that region have been selling their prescription painkillers and other medications to young pill addicts, in some cases for years. According to the piece, a Bluegrass State anti-drug task force has charged more than 40 senior citizens with criminal re-selling of prescription drugs - including the sometimes deadly OxyContin (the same painkiller that some tabloids linked with larger-than-life talk show host Rush Limbaugh several years ago).
Apparently, the drug-related arrests of these seasoned felons have been so frequent that the already-taxed local jails have struggled to adapt to the increased cost of servicing the needs of elderly inmates. And according to sources cited in the article, the practice is almost certainly not limited to the Appalachian region.
Other sources in the piece all but absolve these geriatric felons of their closet sales enterprise - insisting that for many, the supplemental income garnered by selling off their pills for as much as $10 a pop is necessary for those on fixed incomes to help make ends meet. The irony of this is so thick: If you buy into this twisted logic, these seniors are being forced to deal drugs in order to pay for the high cost of living...
Especially their ever-more expensive PRESCRIPTION DRUGS!
As it turns out, a large number of elderly patients in that region have been selling their prescription painkillers and other medications to young pill addicts, in some cases for years. According to the piece, a Bluegrass State anti-drug task force has charged more than 40 senior citizens with criminal re-selling of prescription drugs - including the sometimes deadly OxyContin (the same painkiller that some tabloids linked with larger-than-life talk show host Rush Limbaugh several years ago).
Apparently, the drug-related arrests of these seasoned felons have been so frequent that the already-taxed local jails have struggled to adapt to the increased cost of servicing the needs of elderly inmates. And according to sources cited in the article, the practice is almost certainly not limited to the Appalachian region.
Other sources in the piece all but absolve these geriatric felons of their closet sales enterprise - insisting that for many, the supplemental income garnered by selling off their pills for as much as $10 a pop is necessary for those on fixed incomes to help make ends meet. The irony of this is so thick: If you buy into this twisted logic, these seniors are being forced to deal drugs in order to pay for the high cost of living...
Especially their ever-more expensive PRESCRIPTION DRUGS!
posted by Mrs.Cranky Yankee @ 9:17 AM
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