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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most everyone has some contact with heroin users.  The restaurant business has many.  Today my DD went to a Starbucks and the barista was a friend of hers she cut off long ago because she's become a hardened addict.  We are still puzzling as to how she got this job when there must have been 200 other applicants.[/quote]

How odd. Cocaine has traditionally been the drug of choice for bar and restaurant employees due to its stimulant effects.

But heroin is a narcotic. How do they work while on heroin?[/quote]

It is possible to maintain a job or going to school while doing heroin.  In the past, this person has gone to a methadone clinic every morning and then shot up heroin after work.  She has worked in numerous restaurants and has almost always been able to find a connection through other workers.  The son of a friend of mine who died from a heroin overdose also used to work at restaurants.

DD isn't sure if she is still doing methadone but didn't want to ask either.  Once a person gets to this stage of addiction, they are very hard to retrieve.

In terms of salvaging people from this drug, success rates are much higher for newer addicts or those who have been able to avoid using more than once or twice a week.  This is where our tax dollars would be most effectively spent.  Together with newly recovering addicts, these are also the groups must vulnerable to overdose.  Hardened addicts are the least likely to overdose.[/quote]

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