Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2014
Friday, July 1, 2011
Drug Run to Mexico
Made another drug run to Mexico yesterday.
Forgot to bring my new little cellphone with me. I don't even know where it is now. I probably ought to keep it in the Suzuki.
I did remember to take my passport with me ... and to bring it back.
Paid about $49 for drugs. Here, the could have cost me about $700 the last time I checked! Gas cost me about $50 in my new little gas saver. The drive, one way, is farther than the run from Yucca Valley to Yuma.
I bought:
Amlodipino 5mg 100 comprimidos
Enlalopril 20 mg 400
Terazosina 2mg 100
Metoprolol 50mg 100
I don't have a doctor. After 40 years of taking my own blood pressure, I no longer do so. I have begun to forget to take my medication or to take too much.
I have probably made this particular run over three dozen times. I have probably taken as many different routs doing so.
Over the years more and more people have been going to Algodones to get drugs, glasses, and teeth. However yesterday there seen to be no one in the stores or offices. There were no lines of cars or pietones at the linea. There were few cars in the Indian parking lot.
If I keep making this trip much longer, I may have to find someone to help me get into and out of the car.
Forgot to bring my new little cellphone with me. I don't even know where it is now. I probably ought to keep it in the Suzuki.
I did remember to take my passport with me ... and to bring it back.
Paid about $49 for drugs. Here, the could have cost me about $700 the last time I checked! Gas cost me about $50 in my new little gas saver. The drive, one way, is farther than the run from Yucca Valley to Yuma.
I bought:
Amlodipino 5mg 100 comprimidos
Enlalopril 20 mg 400
Terazosina 2mg 100
Metoprolol 50mg 100
I don't have a doctor. After 40 years of taking my own blood pressure, I no longer do so. I have begun to forget to take my medication or to take too much.
I have probably made this particular run over three dozen times. I have probably taken as many different routs doing so.
Over the years more and more people have been going to Algodones to get drugs, glasses, and teeth. However yesterday there seen to be no one in the stores or offices. There were no lines of cars or pietones at the linea. There were few cars in the Indian parking lot.
If I keep making this trip much longer, I may have to find someone to help me get into and out of the car.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Colombia is Colombia
I have had an affection for things Colombian from the very early 1960s. I'm not a Colombian, but have been accused of being a bit of a "Pisa."
I've just had a bit of a look at a new book by, I believe, Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce called Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs. It is the best example of good extended journalism on the realities in Colombia I have seen in half a century.
If you are interested in Colombia, America foreign policy, drugs,
South America, the Americas in general, humanity, a darn good story, or would just like the facts, take a look at it.
I've just had a bit of a look at a new book by, I believe, Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce called Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs. It is the best example of good extended journalism on the realities in Colombia I have seen in half a century.
If you are interested in Colombia, America foreign policy, drugs,
South America, the Americas in general, humanity, a darn good story, or would just like the facts, take a look at it.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
There Can Be No War On Drugs
War is made on people, by people.
What our "war on drugs" has become, is war on the people of Colombia and Afghanistan. Our blood and treasure supports largely unpopular elites in these and other counties and crushes chances for democracy there.
What our "war on drugs" has become, is war on the people of Colombia and Afghanistan. Our blood and treasure supports largely unpopular elites in these and other counties and crushes chances for democracy there.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Hohokam
O'odham aren't Irish. I used to call them Pima/Papago.
One of them once convinced me that there were good AA meetings on the res and that they once grew the best dry country beans in the world.
A Reservation of theirs is on the US/Mex boarder.
They may need help in dealing with the illegal drug market and the great demand for those drugs on this side of the boarder.
However, they have been fearful, with good reason, of "help" from the US government.
One of them once convinced me that there were good AA meetings on the res and that they once grew the best dry country beans in the world.
A Reservation of theirs is on the US/Mex boarder.
They may need help in dealing with the illegal drug market and the great demand for those drugs on this side of the boarder.
However, they have been fearful, with good reason, of "help" from the US government.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Drug Run
Just got back from a drug run to Algodones, Mexico; an eight hour jaunt. I see that the day will come when that drive won't be fun.
The main reason that I have been making the trip, besides enjoying the novelty of it 3 or 4 times a year, has been not having to deal with doctors for prescriptions. However, a look at prices reminds me of another reason.
Here is an example of pricing:
I take two 20 mg tabs of Vasotec or its generic each day.
Buying 100 tabs on line costs about $112.00.
Buying the same amount locally costs about 10% more than that.
I have found the generic here for about $90.00.
I have seen generic on line for as low as $12 plus tax and shipping, bt have never actually gotten it.
Today, in Mexico, I ought 100 20mg of the generic enalapril for $2.89.
I take four different blood pressure meds a day. Here is some price info another one of them:
I take one 10 mg of the generic for norvasc.
I used to pay about $90 a 100 for their generic here.
I can get them on line or about $80 shipped free.
Today, in Mexico, I paid $7.50 for 100 tabs of 10mg amlodapine.
Roughly, taking my drugs for what the cost here cost $4.00 a day.
Paying for te in Mexico cost me about 20 cents a day. Still, it also takes 8 hours of my time thrice a year and it cost me about $60 for gas today.
The trip was good today: I saw both sides of the Salon Sea and made a circuit of the Joshua Tree National Park, bought chap gas in Yuma, spent a refreshing 1/2 hour in the new Quechan Casino, and enjoyed pleasant hour in Mexico.
The main reason that I have been making the trip, besides enjoying the novelty of it 3 or 4 times a year, has been not having to deal with doctors for prescriptions. However, a look at prices reminds me of another reason.
Here is an example of pricing:
I take two 20 mg tabs of Vasotec or its generic each day.
Buying 100 tabs on line costs about $112.00.
Buying the same amount locally costs about 10% more than that.
I have found the generic here for about $90.00.
I have seen generic on line for as low as $12 plus tax and shipping, bt have never actually gotten it.
Today, in Mexico, I ought 100 20mg of the generic enalapril for $2.89.
I take four different blood pressure meds a day. Here is some price info another one of them:
I take one 10 mg of the generic for norvasc.
I used to pay about $90 a 100 for their generic here.
I can get them on line or about $80 shipped free.
Today, in Mexico, I paid $7.50 for 100 tabs of 10mg amlodapine.
Roughly, taking my drugs for what the cost here cost $4.00 a day.
Paying for te in Mexico cost me about 20 cents a day. Still, it also takes 8 hours of my time thrice a year and it cost me about $60 for gas today.
The trip was good today: I saw both sides of the Salon Sea and made a circuit of the Joshua Tree National Park, bought chap gas in Yuma, spent a refreshing 1/2 hour in the new Quechan Casino, and enjoyed pleasant hour in Mexico.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Malaria?
Is there a lack of anti-malarials in Ecuador?
The people in this part of Ecuador see very little of malaria. However, as I visted several drugstores I heard people asking for ant-malarials, including quinia. They were being that there was nothing available. Asking a phamacist if that wasn`t unusual, I was told tht it, indeed, was. He repeated that there was pactically no malaria here, nor in the Guyaquil area, and that most was found in the amzonas.
The people in this part of Ecuador see very little of malaria. However, as I visted several drugstores I heard people asking for ant-malarials, including quinia. They were being that there was nothing available. Asking a phamacist if that wasn`t unusual, I was told tht it, indeed, was. He repeated that there was pactically no malaria here, nor in the Guyaquil area, and that most was found in the amzonas.
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