I Want A New Drug

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.