Yep, just made a very similar comment in reply to someone above. I grew up not far from where this photo was taken and in the last few years so many people I went to school with have either OD’d, had a family member OD, or have been arrested for possession/dealing. Someone who used to be pretty close to me has a son…

Same thing happened here recently in Birmingham, AL. Girl was clean for a while, started using drugs again and the guy she was with totaled his car and she was killed on impact.

YES. I rolled my eyes at “We feel it necessary to show the other side of this horrible drug.” As if heroin gets tons of good press and is generally regarded as harmless and awesome!

One of my best friends from high school was this model-level beautiful (not that her looks matter), wealthy, smart as hell girl- not exactly the stereotype of the typical heroin junkie. She had suffered depression in the past, but one day in 11th grade she just stopped showing up to school. Prior to that, I had never…

Absolutely. Thank you for sharing your experience. I just find it very offensive to the people who have been touched by it because photos like this are extremely triggering and just remind people of the pain. Stupid, stupid stunt.

Western suburb? 290, the Heroin Highway? I grew up in that general area, too.

There’s no consideration for the child’s privacy here. His well-being is clearly secondary to the object lesson he can provide in the eyes of this department.

Not only that but the whole point of this moronic stunt was the show the non-using public about the effects of drug use. A quick google search does just that. Hell, haven’t we all seen the meth mugshot timeline? Also, I don’t need to see what cops see. That’s why I’m not a cop.

For one, I’m glad the little boy is with the relatives. So the mother fights two years for custody and then shoots up in the car. Well, sorry, she does not deserve custody of her child. I know a woman that had sole custody of her son as the father was absent from her life. One day mom decided to get high and then died…

That’s fucked. Heroin is destroying lives and this is the response? Not advocating good rehab programs, not railing against a rehab industry that exists only to Hoover up government money by keeping people hooked for as long as possible and relapsing as often as possible...nope, let’s just post photos of people at…

It has always bugged the shit out of me that these cops stopped to take a picture instead of fucking helping them instantly. INSTANTLY. That child should have INSTANTLY been removed from that car and that situation and his grandparents should have been INSTANTLY assessed for overdose. Why in the fuck did they take…

Adopting a child costs many thousands of dollars. We considered adoption but it was either that or Mrs Stig went back to school. We chose school, had one of our own and Mrs Stig got a better job due to her advanced degree. We made out much better by not adopting.

I’m sorry you have to deal with that. People have great advice for everyone except themselves. I hope it’s some consolation that years from now when your kid is being a dick to you, you can hold this over her head: “You know, my own obstetrician said I should have aborted you, you little ingrate!” (I’m joking I don’t…

To be fair, overpopulation isn’t a particularly large concern in developed nations, e.g., most countries in Western Europe have a stagnant or decreasing birth rate, and their overall populations would be shrinking if it weren’t for international migration. Overpopulation is obviously a huge issue in developing…

their daughter was 11 in 2009. It seems really messed up to post 500 baby pictures of your child more than a decade after she was an infant. I post pics of my kid on FB but I make sure that it’s nothing intimate or embarrassing . Some real boundary issues on the parents part.

I have no problem with this.

And the age differences, especially for the later wives, seem to be fairly extreme given that one of the primary goals is to crank out as many children as possible. A youngish woman, married as the third or fourth wife with four kids and widowed at 35 seems destined for a life of borderline poverty progressing to…

The point is, if that child now has six legal mothers, two divorce the father and everyone wants custody, WTF do you do? And who would the custodial parent sue for child support? All the parents? The man only? What if there are two fathers in the mix? What if it’s a situation where the husband-priest does not work…

Exactly, it’s not evident by sight who needs a seat, if you can stand, stand and let someone who needs to sit, sit.

THIS. Tim Gunn’s calling out the PR designer for her designs is, in some way, appropriate. I don’t think there is anything wrong with a plus-sized person wearing those clothes and feeling great. My frustration with the market is there are those types of clothes (which are frequently VERY body-con,) or something a roly…