Rehab-bound passenger's heroin overdose forces plane back to JFK

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...rces-plane-land-jfk-airport-article-1.3006669

A 24-year-old Long Island man flying to Florida on his way to drug rehab overdosed on the plane, forcing an emergency return to a Kennedy Airport terminal, officials said Thursday.

The victim, a resident of Bethpage, overdosed on heroin and anxiety pills on the plane about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The plane was on the taxiway about to take off when the man started foaming at the mouth and falling in and out of consciousness, officials said. He was also having difficulty breathing.

The plane was immediately brought back to a terminal, where Port Authority Officers Eric Stern and Sean Pomerantz, who are assigned to the airport’s Medical Ambulance, met the victim.
 
Oxman said:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...rces-plane-land-jfk-airport-article-1.3006669

A 24-year-old Long Island man flying to Florida on his way to drug rehab overdosed on the plane, forcing an emergency return to a Kennedy Airport terminal, officials said Thursday.

The victim, a resident of Bethpage, overdosed on heroin and anxiety pills on the plane about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The plane was on the taxiway about to take off when the man started foaming at the mouth and falling in and out of consciousness, officials said. He was also having difficulty breathing.

The plane was immediately brought back to a terminal, where Port Authority Officers Eric Stern and Sean Pomerantz, who are assigned to the airport’s Medical Ambulance, met the victim.
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Cruise said:
Exactly! No one has ever overdosed on marijuana...NO ONE! But, thanks to tremendously outdated and puritanical information, it remains a scheduled drug. That too, can be linked to the pharma industry.
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Well, not exactly. You can thank one Harry J. Anslinger for the prohibition of marijuana. Up until the end of alcohol prohibition, Mr. Anslinger was publicly on record that marijuana wasn't a problem and caused no harm to anyone. When the Department of Prohibition within his Bureau of Narcotics suddenly had nothing to do go after, he shifted his position and started a campaign against hemp. He was ultimately successful.
 
Cruise said:
Exactly! No one has ever overdosed on marijuana...NO ONE! But, thanks to tremendously outdated and puritanical information, it remains a scheduled drug. That too, can be linked to the pharma industry.
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Lies! Proof:

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RDoug said:
Well, not exactly. You can thank one Harry J. Anslinger for the prohibition of marijuana. Up until the end of alcohol prohibition, Mr. Anslinger was publicly on record that marijuana wasn't a problem and caused no harm to anyone. When the Department of Prohibition within his Bureau of Narcotics suddenly had nothing to do go after, he shifted his position and started a campaign against hemp. He was ultimately successful.
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Well, we can go way back to cotton lobbyists too. Hemp being the vastly superior fiber, the cotton industry was threatened by the rising hemp market and did their best to squash it. Seems as though it worked, since we're a couple hundred years into the domestic cotton industry and hemp is still struggling to gain a foothold in the textile market.
 
Cruise said:
Well, we can go way back to cotton lobbyists too. Hemp being the vastly superior fiber, the cotton industry was threatened by the rising hemp market and did their best to squash it. Seems as though it worked, since we're a couple hundred years into the domestic cotton industry and hemp is still struggling to gain a foothold in the textile market.
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The paper industry is also guilty. The fact of the matter is hemp is an extremely useful resource that we are letting go to waste.
 
NovemberEcho said:
Cause dude clearly recognized he had a problem and wanted to get help, and maybe to some people his life was worth saving? Hope your kid never makes a mistake or suffers from addiction.
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I was going to reply similarly, but I'm pretty sure he's posting sarcastically. If not, well, that's a problem more profound than any drug.
 
I had no idea my state was doing so much to right the wrongs of the past perpetrated by the pharma, cotton, and paper industries.
 
Crop Duster said:
I was going to reply similarly, but I'm pretty sure he's posting sarcastically. If not, well, that's a problem more profound than any drug.
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Yes and no. Gets tiring working EMS and seeing the number of case of ODers who think the ambulance is their personal pharmacy, or that we'll always be there to bail them out of their choices that go bad. Of course there are exceptions, but those are few and far between. Choices have consequences, and they're not always good ones.
 
NovemberEcho said:
Cause dude clearly recognized he had a problem and wanted to get help, and maybe to some people his life was worth saving? Hope your kid never makes a mistake or suffers from addiction.
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MikeD said:
Go work EMS sometime, and see the number cases of ODs who think it's no big thing because the ambulance is their personal pharmacy and that we'll always be their out the next time they OD. Then come lecture me on how I should be feeling.
Like anything else in the field, their emergency isn't my emergency.
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Go live in community, and see the number of cases of folks whose self-delusions of personal perfection and total self-sufficiency lead them to believe empathy and community are no big deal because their community isn't my community.

Translated from the English, the "thomotion"* roughly decodes as "Hey, losers! Go F yourselves. I've got mine ... and I don't have to give a synaptic nanosecond's consideration as to why."
The logical corollary being, "And if I ever experience a bankrupting medical bill and don't have mine, I'm just going to shoot myself and not be a burden to all you perfect folks."

*yeah, I'm coining that, Thomotion: "a burp of ranting anger caused by an erroneous conflation of thought and emotion based on a lack of adequate perspective and data points". In rare instances, "... a loss of adequate perspective due to a surfeit of data points personally observed, and therefore, internalized as more-than-adequate perspective that's better-than-yours but inadequately appreciated by others due to their lack of perspective and empathy for the observer's life experiences."
 
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Crop Duster said:
Go live in community, and see the number of cases of folks whose self-delusions of personal perfection and complete self-sufficiency lead them to think empathy is no big deal because their community isn't my community.
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Has nothing to do with empathy. Doesn't change the bad choices people make and the consequences that go with those choices. Like I said, there's exceptions. Like it or not, in EMS, your emergency isn't my emergency. That's not a lack of empathy, that's safety and survival in many ways.

Know how many guys I've known who have killed themselves in a plane doing something stupid or due to a poor choice they made that could've been avoided? They were great guys, and still considered to be. But that doesn't change the fact that they made poor choices that ended up morting themselves, and we don't butter that up or try to cover that up. We live and learn, and try to not go down those same roads.
 
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