News Article: Ex-Bruin Kevin Stevens pleads guilty to federal drug charge

[PlayoffBeard365]

So why not get rid of both?

How do you suggest "getting rid of" them? Or anything for that matter. There will always be something available to remedy the human conditions.

 

[LouJersey]

How do you suggest "getting rid of" them? Or anything for that matter. There will always be something available to remedy the human conditions.

Making both illegal and keeping them that way. What did people ever do in the 40s when all they had was aspirin to take for pain?

 

[disfigured]

Making both illegal and keeping them that way. What did people ever do in the 40s when all they had was aspirin to take for pain?

Opium, heroin, morphine, Laudanum or any host of opiate based and opiate derivative based "cures", available at the time.

Just before the Civil War the estimated average whisky consumption (granted a lower proof than today) of every American (including children in the equation) was 85 quarts a year. We were as Ken Burns puts it in "Prohibition" a "nation of drunks". Records and diaries show that the members of the Mayflower were most concerned about their beer on board than even scurvy or fresh food. Granted at the time the consumption of alcohol was safer than potentially contaminated water.

In fact the concept of a Drug free culture is counter intuitive to almost everything we know about any culture or nationality that has ever existed on the face of the earth. Every one of them except the rare one or two, has used some form of drug, beverage or plant to alter their perception of reality. Some for religious reason, but most for the act itself.

It has been part of mankind's modern (in relative terms) evolutionary process to seek altered states through the use of drugs (which includes alcohol). Beer was invented in China at approximately 5000 B.C. Mescal and other unprocessed hallucinogens date to 8000 B.C in the Americas.

 

[Kovi]

judge not, lest you be judged....

 

[Gee Wally]

Kovi gets last word.

*click*

 

[Fenway]

I won't reopen the thread but KPD writes this today

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT
Former NHL star Kevin Stevens putting his life back together

Stevens and Kelly, dating back to the arrest, continually made the case, to the media and the court, that Stevens’s addiction woes date to a horrific on-ice accident in 1993, the days when he was the game’s premier left winger with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Knocked cold on his feet, an unconscious Stevens crashed face-first into the ice, shattering many of his facial bones. During a one-month stay in the hospital following surgery to reconstruct his face, Stevens contends, he became addicted to the prescription painkillers percocet and vicodin, identifying that as the trigger to his catastrophic downward spiral.

“I had 27 good years till then,†said Stevens, who played a half-season with the Bruins (1995-96) as part of his 15-year NHL career. “And then I had 25 really [expletive] bad years. Normal people would say, ‘Kev, what are you doing? Stop!’ But I couldn’t. Once that compulsion, that obsession, is set off in your brain, there’s no stopping it.â