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Heroin Use Booming in America 

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2017 is shaping up as the most profitable year ever for the U.S. heroin trade…

Cartels have begun lacing heroin with synthetic opioids including fentanyl, making a dose more addictive and cheaper to produce.

Powerful synthetics are sometimes flown in from Hong Kong are known as “pink.”

“We are seeing an unbelievably sad and extensive heroin epidemic, and there is no end in sight,” says Daniel Ciccarone, a medical doctor at the University of California at San Francisco who studies the heroin market. “We are not, in 2017, anywhere close to the top of this thing. Heroin has a life force of its own.”

A lethal fentanyl dose is 2 milligrams, the weight of a few grains of salt…Merely it can cause someone without an opioid tolerance to overdose as it leaches through the skin.

Professionals have become the city’s new potheads as acceptance of marijuana use increases

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They are the city’s new pot-smoking professionals — ganja-puffing teachers, TV execs and businessmen who go about their daily routines while under the influence, thanks to the drug’s decriminalization.

…A downtown Manhattan mom said she’s even cool with lighting up during play dates.

…A Brooklyn teacher told The Post that it’s a good thing city education officials don’t randomly test school workers for the drug.

…Zach, who said that pot actually helps him cope and that he has no trouble being productive.“I work anywhere between 60 to 80 hours a week, and I also smoke weed every day, and I’m educated, and I do a good job,’’ he said.

“It’s not like I’m sitting on my butt all day in my sweats, smoking and eating Doritos and playing video games.”

…In October, a Gallup poll found that 60 percent of Americans support marijuana use — the highest number in 47 years.

 

Source: Professionals have become the city’s new potheads

Digital Pharmakeia and Media Addiction

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The US Navy’s head of addiction research, Cmdr. Dr. Andrew Doan, likes media screen time to “digital pharmakeia” (Greek for pharmaceuticals), a term he coined to explain the neurobiological effects produced by video technologies. Recent brain-imaging research by the US military confirms that glowing screens affect the brain’s frontal cortex – which controls executive functioning, including impulse control – in exactly the same way that drugs like cocaine, morphine and heroin do.

The drug addiction effect of digital media raises some serious questions about the amount of screen time children are permitted to have on a daily basis.  The more a child is stimulated, the more that child needs to keep getting stimulated in order to hold their attention.

In light of the advancements made in technology and culture shift, a big ‘What If’ is considering whether digital media addiction can be included in a biblical understanding of prophetic biblical verses which make use of the Greek word pharmakeia, since the effect on the brain is so similar.

Strong’s 5331 pharmakeía (from pharmakeuō, “administer drugs”) – properly, drug-related sorcery, like the practice of magical-arts, etc.

Galatians 5:20

Revelation 9:21

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