
That’s not true. Drug addicts don’t go to the doctor and take a prescription pill to get off drugs. Methadone yes. Nothing else. |
I have compassion for addicts. I am not gatekeeping anything. If you want to condemn an addict that that is what you want to do. That does not resonate with my experience and maybe compassion for addicts does not resonate with you. I do have compassion for the Trump's family's struggle with addiction with his brother and Amy other family members that are afflicted. |
I am aware. I want treatments to be developed. They do not exist right now. |
And I one thousand percent agree that addicts and drug users have no business being anywhere near firearms. |
It would be really helpful if GPs were trained to deal with addiction and in particular how to help addicts to detox without adding a bunch more of potentially addictive drugs. Methadone is not the only drug available. There is also suboxone and Vivitrol. The latter, which can be a more long lasting solution, is not pushed nearly enough because there are few doctors who know how to safely transition addicts to it in the initial stage. |
You are gatekeeping; everyone has family problems with addiction. It is rare for a family to not have addiction problems. Your arrogant and dismissive posts do not represent a person who has sympathy for others. Your posts represent only your POV while dismissing anyone else’s POV. I don’t have any problem with you but you made it a point several times to dismiss my family’s addiction struggles and call yourself out as the penultimate example of addiction and loss. I really have never encountered someone who has lost a loved one to addiction who has displayed that attitude. You should not assume you are the only person who has experienced loss, because you should know better. |
Don't understand your aggressive posts about Hunter Biden being from a wealthy family. He probably had every treatment that money could buy and addicts from low income situations can not access. But wealth cannot protect you the disease itself. But try again and see if I can understand. |
Drug addicts do not see their gp for help. Addicts don’t go to the doctor. They rupture their abscesses and lose their teeth on the street. Addicts only go to the doctor when they overdose and get taken via ambulance to the ER. Once the ER saves their life, they go right back to doing drugs. Addicts don’t go to Dr. Smith and ask for help. GPs don’t have time to the skills or resources to deal with addicts even if one would go see a GP. |
Where would you start to put resources to address addiction? |
Why isn’t Biden helping regular Americans with their family addiction issues by stopping the flow of Chinese fentanyl over the Southern border into our communities? Almost 300,000 Americans have died from drug overdose under Biden. |
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf ![]() |
Ok. I see. My regular American family suffered an addiction loss under trump but I do not blame trump for the death. But maybe I should. |
China has the playbook.
Britain did it to them in the Opium Wars of the 1840s to 1860s. |
If you think PP was “aggressive”, the internet is not for you. It is that your shtick? Pester people then call them aggressive for responding? |
Biden is the current president. Trump can’t do anything to lessen or stop fentanyl flow into the US today, while Biden can. You can see from the graph above, overdose deaths are rising under his presidency and reaching epidemic proportions. Biden is blamed because he’s the current president, and his personal experience with family addiction should make him more attuned to the situation. If Trump were president right now he would be to blame. If you want to blame Trump for his policies and lack of accountability during his presidency I can’t blame you. |