The baby accidentally overdosed, because he picked up a packet that was left lying around in the course of the transaction. He’s recovered and is now living with other relatives (permanently, let’s hope), and let’s hope there’s no lingering damage. But really, it just defeats the purpose of hiring a babysitter if you all then get high together.
Story here.
I like to think of myself as a librul but, uh…
Is it necessarily a good thing that we don’t consider sterilization as a consequence of determined irresponsibility?
The Washington Post headline is good: Va. parents charged with allowing baby to overdose on heroin
Parents are SO permissive these days.
I know, when I was 2 and I got caught using heroin, my parents kept making me shoot up until I got sick of it.
That’s nothing. My folks caught me cutting shipments with road tar and made me shoot the mix myself instead of selling it. I learned my lesson fast.
Back in the day when I was an infant, all we had to overdose on was alcohol. And we were glad to have it.
I blame the parents. If they had taught the baby the proper dosages, and more importantly respect, for heroin, it wouldn’t have overdosed in the first place. What are parents teaching kids these days?
When I was 13 (months), my parents caught me smuggling cocaine in my diapers. Boy, did I catch holy hell. They sprinkled the whole bag on my strained carrots and made me snort it all through a straw.
To this day I can’t stand carrots.
Think of all the sober kids in Africa who don’t have any heroin.
What the hell? Now I feel totally cheated. Back in my day, we only got paid in 40s of OE.
That’s if you were hired in. We temps got talls of Milwaukee’s Best.
Damn.
Why does nobody tell me these things when the information might still be useful. My kids haven’t needed a sitter in years!
(oh, and :eek: and :smack: and 
and :mad:)
Just to make a parent’s life harder: If you’re getting off heroin, you can’t leave your methadone where the kids can find it. Every year a few kids taste someone’s methadone dose and OD as a result.
You can’t use your methadone to make a cranky toddler “quiet down”, either. I saw a case report of that once; the kid quieted down all right, permanently.
on the other hand, if you pay the babysitter in heroin, you have a babysiiter every weekend.
Regards,
Shodan
Heroin is just a measly gateway drug anyway. I don’t understand the furor.
Don’t pay the sitter in heroin
don’t use the sitter for prostitution
don’t wall the sitter up in the basement
cain’t do nuttin’ nowadays
Oops, now you tell me. :eek::smack:
Anyone got a sledgehammer?
You could always go with khat or coca leaves as a light change of pace.
And I can sympathize with feelings in favor of selective spay/neuter/release - just can’t see it where it wouldn’t be horrifically abused as a state power. Same deal as the parent license idea - can sound good in some extreme cases, but in the wrong hands …
I thought this was a little strange:
As a medically recognized victim of repeated kidney stones, I don’t think any of my kids have not seen me under the influence of narcotics, at least a few times!
Still, WTF? I mean, I would think, as a parent, if I were interviewing babysitters, and someone approached me and said “I charge $12.00 an hour, or X amount of heroin”, I, uh, maybe wouldn’t have hired them! :eek:
I think there were speaking of not-medically-prescribed-for-evident-reasons narcotics. I’ve seen my mother pilled-up quite a few times, but “these painkillers they’re trying right now aren’t working well” is not the same as watching your parents shoot up.
I think.