One of the most entertaining high school wrestler I ever witnessed died today.
It puts sports in perspective.
It puts sports in perspective.
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Sad news
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Former Pitt Wrestler Mikey Racciato Dies at Age 26
Mikey Racciato, a three-time PIAA State Champion for Pen Argyl and an ACC Champion for Pitt, died on Dec. 25, 2020 at the age of 26 in his hometown. Mikey was always the life of any situation he was in. An outgoing, funny, easy-to-talk-to individual, he was never shy to strike up a conversation...
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Months ago I commented on a thread about our society not just being in a pandemic but also a horrible opioid epidemic. The situation is not being dealt with. It is devastating the young generation.
The misnomer that some of the public has, is that the problem only involves a certain sect of the population. The drug problem affects all walks of life. I know this because of my profession.
It just is more upsetting when you know the family involved.
The misnomer that some of the public has, is that the problem only involves a certain sect of the population. The drug problem affects all walks of life. I know this because of my profession.
It just is more upsetting when you know the family involved.
I recall when he took his official visit to Penn State like it was yesterday. He was also a good football player. He, his parents, and a couple of other wrestling recruits stood on the field prior to a Penn State football game. He seemed like he was having the time of his life.
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My 29 year old son has lost more members of his high school class, due to opiods, than I have lost totally from my class of ‘81....
A well written article that talks about his athletic accomplishments and his kindness to the less fortunate kids.
www.lehighvalleylive.com
Pen Argyl’s Racciato remembered as magic on the mat, on the field, everywhere
The 2013 Green Knight graduate, who died on Christmas Day at 26, left a powerful athletic and personal legacy.
My son has O.D. twice in 2 years. Thankfully he hit his rock bottom and lived. It puts the whole family in jeopardy. RIP young man and I pray for those left behind to deal with this loss.
Wishing your son continued recovery.
The timeline is even sadder than Racciato overdosing. He was taken to the ER on Christmas Eve for an OD, was discharged that night, met his dealer in the hospital parking lot, bought more fentanyl, and was found dead on Christmas morning.
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I knew the events of how the situation played out before the story was written.
The drug epidemic in our country is terrible. I know this because of my business which deals with the aftermath of a families loss.
The addiction affects all walks of life and family values. Parents and love ones can try to intervene but sometimes it is to no avail. A portion of the public think the opioid issue of not being in the main stream of society. It is!!
Legislative and Judicial branches have done little to help the situation.
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if anything the legislative and judicial branches have made the situation worse. The emotional toll that no school, no sports, no travel, no interaction w friends, nothing to look forward to is driving kids to drugs and worse.
And no-one seems to care. It is heartbreaking.
The Fentanyl coming across the border supplied to Mexican cartel's by China has to be stopped. To many US citizens are dying every day from Over dosses from the trash the cartels are selling as opioids..
We have been fighting this war on drugs for how long now? Forty years? It hasn't gotten better, probably worse. We have lost this war on drugs. What we've been doing for four decades isn't working. It's time to find another approach. And while I don't know exactly what that is, I do know if we continue to just do what we've been doing nothing is going to change.
Your right. As horrible as it sounds, make it all legal and only prosecute crimes against people and property while using drugs. If it is legal, people could buy the drugs at the local pharmacy where at least they would know what they are buying instead of buying something on the street where the quality and what exactly is in it are not known. Alas, if this was done, some political critters would probably lose a cut of the illegal drug trade costing them money, no chance it happens.
There are a whole lot of fine upstanding folks who are not going to put up with legalizing drugs, and their motivation has nothing to do moral conflict.
Drug money has polluted society from the tippy, tippy top all the way down to the guy doing oral favors in the men's bathroom for a fix.
we need to take a stand on right or wrong. Some States currently say it is ok to possess small amounts of illegal narcotics...
Maybe. Legalizing all drugs may actually eliminate the need for fentanyl at all if you could buy oxys or something at the drug store for a fix instead, since the fentanyl is mostly used as a cheap ingredient in the mass production of the illegal narcotics. This is kind of a cynical analysis, but there is evidence from CO and other places that have legalized cannabis that opioid abuse decreased as people switched to the legal pot instead, so rather than being a gateway, pot appears to instead be a substitute for a larger segment of the abuser community, and a much safer substitute at that. People don't WANT to be addicts and throw their entire lives away until it kills them, it just happens that way because of their disease, and I do think legalization would give us more avenues to help more people get OFF the really dangerous stuff before it's too late.
Daton Fix still will, if it's his dad's milkshake.
No need to drag WildTurk into this.
For the fine upstanding folks, they need to get off their high horse and deal with reality. Illegality of drugs is not preventing people from using them, people who want them get them. I fully recognize the horrible behaviors and crimes that result from the drug trade and people needing to get money to buy drugs. I also recognize that their are a lot of deaths from overdoses and cities are shooting galleries from the drug trade. Make it legal and those problems will be reduced.
Someone famous said something about doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity...we have 50 years to verify the current approach is insane.
make it legal and the crime to gain the funds to purchase will still exist and get closer to your front door.
that's a generic statement. I had lots of drug education in the 70's (via school) telling me a lot of bad stuff regarding drugs... didn't stop many.... For that matter look at DWI - we need to educate better or have stronger knowledge of right/wrong...
I think some of us don't agree with how (and what) things are defined as "right" or "wrong".
Not if you make it cheap enough. That assumes that making it legal will cause more people to use and abuse drugs, that is not necessarily the case.
My best friend is a Assistant Police Chief in a nearby area.
They occasionally set up night time DUI check points.
I believe the last time they charged 7 people with Driving under the influence. The break down was 2 for alcohol and 5 for drugs. I believe 2 of them claimed they had medical card for pot.
The Good Samaritan drug act has hindered police from trying to stop the dealers of drugs. Charges are only brought up when a person dies from an overdose.
Seems to me if you allow the poisonous snake in the room it's going to eventually bite somebody.
They occasionally set up night time DUI check points.
I believe the last time they charged 7 people with Driving under the influence. The break down was 2 for alcohol and 5 for drugs. I believe 2 of them claimed they had medical card for pot.
The Good Samaritan drug act has hindered police from trying to stop the dealers of drugs. Charges are only brought up when a person dies from an overdose.
Seems to me if you allow the poisonous snake in the room it's going to eventually bite somebody.
As I noted above, the drug epidemic is real and has gotten worse since Covid. We got notified last night that a 25 year old that we knew since he was born died from drug overdose.
His mother was friends with my wife. They went to same high school. The mother passed away in 2019 from cancer.
It was at that point her son escalated in sliding down a dark path.
I had mixed emotions if I should post this being a non-wrestling issue. However, I felt that if one person would read it and benefit from it then it was worth it.
RIP Joey.
His mother was friends with my wife. They went to same high school. The mother passed away in 2019 from cancer.
It was at that point her son escalated in sliding down a dark path.
I had mixed emotions if I should post this being a non-wrestling issue. However, I felt that if one person would read it and benefit from it then it was worth it.
RIP Joey.
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Sorry for your loss. It's just terrible. When you were young you mightve smoked some pot in high school but that was about it. It's like these hardcore drugs are the kids pot now. It's so sad and it's all about the mighty $$$
