Opioid Abusers Using Loperamide to Get High or Alleviate Withdrawal, with Fatal Consequences One of the most used drugs in any survival stockpile is Immodium (loperamide). It safely and reliably stops diarrhea. It is also used on the street to treat opiate withdrawal symptoms. Here’s how it works for that purpose. If society…
Category: Prepping
Civilian Operator 101: Going Mobile
A learned a long time ago that when shit goes bad, it goes bad in a hurry. Very often you will have little to no time to think about what you really need to do, you just going to have to react. The seasoned prepper knows from experience that there are two basic options when…
Prepping 101: Creating A Working Inventory For Living in Dangerous Times
Not a bad primer to help get your mind in the right direction when it comes to preparing for when the Hammer drops. Remember, in Prepping, just like in Firearms and Combat Training, it is Software before Hardware. The Mind is the Ultimate Weapon, all else is Supplemental. -SF I have been reading the excellent…
Practical Skill-Sets: Trapped in a Crowd – Why Crowds Get Dangerous & How To Survive A Crush
I used to lovegoing to sporting events. I regularly spent Saturday afternoons in a football stadium with 65,000 other fans, or in a basketball arena with 23,000 other basketball crazies, or a Friday night at Disney World with 80,000 of my newfound friends. I had no problem with large crowds. I loved the lack of…
Natural Disaster Survival: Hurricane Prep Primer + Giveaway
Over 80% of people on this planet live within 100 miles of a coastline. Despite attempts at getting the population better prepared, according to FEMA, only 40% of the U.S. population actively prepares. It only takes one hurricane for victims to see how quickly their lives can change. Hurricanes are nightmarish in terms of the…
Venezuela: A Prepper’s Nightmare Come to Life
Not much is being said in the state run media about the current events in Venezuela, but it would behoove the Armed Citizen/Prepper to pay attention to what is going on there; lots to learn. -SF Two years ago, Venezuela was a normal functioning nation, relatively speaking of course. It was by no means a…
Prepping: Creating a Collapse Supply List
I don’t do a lot of prepping articles because to be honest, most of it is common sense type stuff. Blame it on me being raised in the south and having a really “hands on” child hood I guess, but alot of what most people consider “prepping” I did when I was 12 years old…
Natural Disaster Survival: Another Cautionary Tale about Awareness and Preparation
This last round of storms and flooding in my home state of Texas claimed the lives of 6 people. Five of them, a Great-Grandmother and 4 Children drowned while trying to escape the flood waters. Bottom line is that it is hard to imagine somebody drowning in their own front yard, but it is entirely…
Natural Disaster Survival: A Tragic Warning Why You Should NEVER Drive in Flood Waters
HOUSTON, Texas — A video released by the Harris County Toll Road Authority shows a woman drowning in her car after she drove past a road barrier into a deeply flooded underpass on Monday morning. Flooded underpasses are nothing new in this city and officials constantly use the phrase “Turn around, don’t drown,” to warn…
DIY Project: Secret Gun Compartment
Home firearm storage mostly consists of safes and ugly cabinets. This DIY secret gun compartment doubles as a living room mirror, but opens to reveal your firearms when you need them. Corey of Sawdust 2 Stitches shares a video of the gun cabinet she built below. It houses her AR-15 as well as magazines and other accessories. The…