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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow...so like 90% of white heroin addicts simply broke their arm or had some type of surgery and were prescribed painkillers and BAM!!!  Few months later they're shooting up and zoning out.  That's wild.  So wild it's pretty unbelievable.  [/quote]

I agree it's BS. But read the addiction threads on this forum, including this one, and you'll see those excuses ad nauseum.[/quote]

We are talking about several demographics.

This does not necessarily fit the picture of what is happening in depressed rural and small town areas of the US.  Even so, there are many there work physically demanding jobs like forestry or coal mining, developing chronic back or other pain, and start taking prescribed narcotics to ease it, initiating their downward spiral.

What you are talking about fits more a MC to UMC suburban demographic.  Narcotics prescribed for sports injuries or surgeries can be a precipitating cause.  But I think there may be more reasons why some people become hooked and others in similar circumstances do not.  Some of it is genetic predisposition.

But some of it is that perhaps whatever they were doing that brought on the surgery like sports is no longer available to them as an outlet to deal with inner disturbances. People not "addicted" to sports and physical activity (which typically is viewed as a good thing on DCUM) and who have a broader range of coping mechanisms and are less suceptible to falling into addiction from narcotics prescribed for injuries or surgery.

The combination of a narcotics supply and the removal of outlet activities can do these people in, and if you add a genetic predisposition toward addiction the person almost doesn't stand a chance.

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