Heroin epidemic

[Anonymous]

I am another person who has been very careful about prescription pain pills because I LOVE the way they make me feel. Others in my family don't like them at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that several people seem to easily obtain opioids from their doctor. I have had chronic pain for 5 years that has destroyed my quality of life, and it's next to impossible to get any opioid. I've seen dozens of doctors and pain medicine was a last resort to me.

One time i was given percocet for 30 days and then the doctor went on some rant about abusing drugs, DEA, etc. Some doctors have signs that say that they won't even talk about opioids! A friend of mine has chronic pain and has been taking opioids for approx 10 years, as prescribed. He was obviously chemically dependent, which is a given, but never abused the drug. The doctor cut him off and then he ran into the same problem as me. He ended up having to go to a methadone clinic to obtain opioids, which actually is great for chronic pain because it stays in your system for so long. The whole opioid problem is horrible, but the backlash against doctors has definitely had a horrible impact on my life and I'm sure many others with chronic pain.

Have you tried medical MJ or CBD oil?

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Anonymous wrote:Or pp, they are predisposed to addiction. As is the case on my family.
I've been hyper vigilant about taking tha bare minimum when prescribed painkillers and stopping as soon as I could manage for this reason. My sibling wasn't so lucky.

You followed the directions. Your sibling, more than likely, did not. I'm not trying to be condescending, but there is some degree of choice involved. Once someone decides to take 4 pills instead of 2, or takes more pills after 2 hours instead of waiting 4 hours...that's where the problem lies.

Exactly. There is a lot of dishonesty among whites about this opioid addiction epidemic. Your precious snowflake was getting high and knowingly abusing the drugs before addiction set in. The same story as the other addicts who you blame for their condition while your child has a "disease."

I wouldn't have put it quite so bluntly, but this is exactly right. I went to Yorktown and later, H-B. Grew up in Arlington. I know several white kids from Yorktown who OD'ed on heroin, one fatally. The others probably will OD too or die of related causes. All of these kids started with pills in middle or high school, used off and on, usually raiding their parents' supply or getting it from older siblings. A couple were good athletes who abused what doctors gave them after sports injuries.

Read the book "Go ask Alice"
Some people have their drinks, cigarettes laced by a friend
I am fortunate enough to not be an addict and would never just blatantly pass judgement on someone. Nobody decides they want to be a junkie and goes to find a drug pusher for that purpose.
Our society is blindly judging people without looking into issues more deeply, perhaps if they did they would see an image of themselves they do not like

Cut the bullshit. Plenty of self-indulgent, hedonistic people decide they like how drugs make them feel and continue using them until they are addicted. This epidemic didn't start or continue because unsuspecting people's cigarettes are being laced. Take some responsibility and GTFOH.

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Anonymous wrote:I love how opioids make me feel, and see how I could get addicted. I have never taken more than a normal dose, but have stolen pills in the past. They are difficult to resist. If I have them, I will take them.

You should never take them again then. Why go down this road when you know how tragically it will end?

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Anonymous wrote:Or pp, they are predisposed to addiction. As is the case on my family.
I've been hyper vigilant about taking tha bare minimum when prescribed painkillers and stopping as soon as I could manage for this reason. My sibling wasn't so lucky.

You followed the directions. Your sibling, more than likely, did not. I'm not trying to be condescending, but there is some degree of choice involved. Once someone decides to take 4 pills instead of 2, or takes more pills after 2 hours instead of waiting 4 hours...that's where the problem lies.

Exactly. There is a lot of dishonesty among whites about this opioid addiction epidemic. Your precious snowflake was getting high and knowingly abusing the drugs before addiction set in. The same story as the other addicts who you blame for their condition while your child has a "disease."

I wouldn't have put it quite so bluntly, but this is exactly right. I went to Yorktown and later, H-B. Grew up in Arlington. I know several white kids from Yorktown who OD'ed on heroin, one fatally. The others probably will OD too or die of related causes. All of these kids started with pills in middle or high school, used off and on, usually raiding their parents' supply or getting it from older siblings. A couple were good athletes who abused what doctors gave them after sports injuries.

Read the book "Go ask Alice"
Some people have their drinks, cigarettes laced by a friend
I am fortunate enough to not be an addict and would never just blatantly pass judgement on someone. Nobody decides they want to be a junkie and goes to find a drug pusher for that purpose.
Our society is blindly judging people without looking into issues more deeply, perhaps if they did they would see an image of themselves they do not like

"Go Ask Alice" is a fiction book from 1971. I don't think any kids are becoming heroin addicts by getting LSD put into their soda without their knowing. Try to use a more current reference than one that is 46 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:Or pp, they are predisposed to addiction. As is the case on my family.
I've been hyper vigilant about taking tha bare minimum when prescribed painkillers and stopping as soon as I could manage for this reason. My sibling wasn't so lucky.

You followed the directions. Your sibling, more than likely, did not. I'm not trying to be condescending, but there is some degree of choice involved. Once someone decides to take 4 pills instead of 2, or takes more pills after 2 hours instead of waiting 4 hours...that's where the problem lies.

Exactly. There is a lot of dishonesty among whites about this opioid addiction epidemic. Your precious snowflake was getting high and knowingly abusing the drugs before addiction set in. The same story as the other addicts who you blame for their condition while your child has a "disease."

I wouldn't have put it quite so bluntly, but this is exactly right. I went to Yorktown and later, H-B. Grew up in Arlington. I know several white kids from Yorktown who OD'ed on heroin, one fatally. The others probably will OD too or die of related causes. All of these kids started with pills in middle or high school, used off and on, usually raiding their parents' supply or getting it from older siblings. A couple were good athletes who abused what doctors gave them after sports injuries.

Read the book "Go ask Alice"
Some people have their drinks, cigarettes laced by a friend
I am fortunate enough to not be an addict and would never just blatantly pass judgement on someone. Nobody decides they want to be a junkie and goes to find a drug pusher for that purpose.
Our society is blindly judging people without looking into issues more deeply, perhaps if they did they would see an image of themselves they do not like

"Go Ask Alice" is a fiction book from 1971. I don't think any kids are becoming heroin addicts by getting LSD put into their soda without their knowing. Try to use a more current reference than one that is 46 years old.

Yorktown poster here. I attended in the 90s. No one's drinks or cigarettes were laced by friends or strangers and no one was pressuring anyone to "just try it once". Shit, free drugs? Hell no. You had to pay for that stuff. These kids took the pills or whatever else by choice. I've read "Go Ask Alice". It's a pretty good work of fiction, but it's exactly that...fiction.

[Anonymous]

Because when I took prescribed opioid medication, my depression and anxiety vanished. I felt content, engaged in my relationships, job, and surroundings, and for the first time I felt like I wasn't in a desperate slog, faking it to get by one more day. Opiates make some people feel good. Very, very good. Why is that difficult to understand? If you can't relate, consider yourself extremely fortunate.

[Anonymous]

Opioids soothe emotional pain in the same way they soothe physical pain. It all comes from the same place in the brain. Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of hardcore intravenous drug users will have experienced severe abuse and trauma in their childhood... it makes a lot of sense to me how somebody could become addicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because when I took prescribed opioid medication, my depression and anxiety vanished. I felt content, engaged in my relationships, job, and surroundings, and for the first time I felt like I wasn't in a desperate slog, faking it to get by one more day. Opiates make some people feel good. Very, very good. Why is that difficult to understand? If you can't relate, consider yourself extremely fortunate.

This is definitely true. They are an amazing cure for debilitating anxiety-- until you are hooked.

[Anonymous]

I asked my best friend, who is an addiction specialist, why some get addicted and others do not. She said that every person she has counseled can vividly remember the first time they took an opoid. It was instant euphoria. Some get addicted, some don't.

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my best friend, who is an addiction specialist, why some get addicted and others do not. She said that every person she has counseled can vividly remember the first time they took an opoid. It was instant euphoria. Some get addicted, some don't.

I am the anxiety and depression PP - yes. It was instant relief and extreme euphoria - from HALF of a single Vicodin pill.

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Anonymous wrote:Because when I took prescribed opioid medication, my depression and anxiety vanished. I felt content, engaged in my relationships, job, and surroundings, and for the first time I felt like I wasn't in a desperate slog, faking it to get by one more day. Opiates make some people feel good. Very, very good. Why is that difficult to understand? If you can't relate, consider yourself extremely fortunate.

I'm so lucky I get violently ill (vomiting, room spinning) on just a small dose. Otherwise I would have been addicted when I got my wisdom teeth out at 17. As it turns out I'm an alcoholic in recovery and just know that if I hadn't had the reaction to opioids that I did, I'd be a drug addict too.

[Anonymous]

Four of my HS school classmates.

Two of my former students.

One local business owner.

I am 36 and based in New England. It is really bad here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because when I took prescribed opioid medication, my depression and anxiety vanished. I felt content, engaged in my relationships, job, and surroundings, and for the first time I felt like I wasn't in a desperate slog, faking it to get by one more day. Opiates make some people feel good. Very, very good. Why is that difficult to understand? If you can't relate, consider yourself extremely fortunate.

It is not a fortune. It is years and years of hard work on own character, discipline, education, moral values. Some people work hard to develop that, and some pop the pill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because when I took prescribed opioid medication, my depression and anxiety vanished. I felt content, engaged in my relationships, job, and surroundings, and for the first time I felt like I wasn't in a desperate slog, faking it to get by one more day. Opiates make some people feel good. Very, very good. Why is that difficult to understand? If you can't relate, consider yourself extremely fortunate.

It is not a fortune. It is years and years of hard work on own character, discipline, education, moral values. Some people work hard to develop that, and some pop the pill.

You also believe that no poor people would be poor if they just worked harder, right?

Personal choices do, of course, factor into the equation. But so do genetics &, in many cases, misfortune.