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2018-07-08 at 11:32 PM UTC in I think something might have happened to hydro
Originally posted by HTS Are you really using the fact that you aren't fucking dead to justify how responsible you are as a person? 😅
Aren't dead, not living in complete disarray, my life isn't in shambles, I am genuinely happy and never depressed or feeling regret with recent decisions I have made, I have a solid career, my own business, on point to purchase a home next year, happily married, own 2 vehicles fully paid for, life is honestly better than it ever has been.
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2018-07-08 at 10:39 PM UTC in I think something might have happened to hydro
Originally posted by Cootehill Genuine congratulations. Since you (no sarcasm) seem to know more than me, how would you approach solving opiate use?
I don't know if it can ever be truly "solved". People are going to use the substances they want to use regardless of any legal aspects. So laws and regulations won't help the situation. We should all be well aware of that now, since this whole "War on Drugs" started in the 1960's and the revamp of the Reagan era in the 1980s. That isn't to say that a lack of laws and regulations will solve it either. People are going to use either way.
However, there are certain things that will make it better and society is slowly moving to that point. Immunity for those who call for an ambulance for an overdosing friend. Many people don't call for fear of being arrested themselves. I was dumped out in front of a children's hospital myself when I overdosed once. My friends didn't want to be caught with me, for fear of being arrested. Immunity from arrest for the sake of saving a life is one step.
All emergency and first response personnel carrying Narcan. They are doing this in most major cities, but it should be widespread. Carry it. It could save a life.
Offer true rehabilitation rather than prison sentences for possession (or even small amount sales) charges. Prison doesn't rehabilitate. Prison doesn't address the fundamental root of the addiction. Prison also doesn't provide the needed psychological and addition support services and what little it does provide, is laughable at best. A true rehabilitation system should be the first step in the court system. This, of course, is hard to make work. There are some things about AA/NA that ring true, like "hitting rock bottom". I don't like to use that phrase, but what it refers to is real. The addict isn't going to seek or accept help until they themselves want it. Only when they want it for themselves will they accept help. You can send them to rehab or prison all you want, but if they never reach the point where they're ready to try and stop, then they won't. Prison doesn't adequately address that for most people and unfortunately, neither does most rehabs. Sending people straight to prison over a possession charge, making them a felon, taking away certain welfare benefits from them because they're a felon (like food stamps in certain states), blacklisting them from many job opportunities, etc. It's a system that is setup for the convicted to fail and return to incarceration. Incarcerate them, make them a felon so they can't get a job, take away welfare systems so they can't get food or monetary aid if charged with a drug related charge, offer them no rehabilitation or skills to cope with the fundamental reason they started using in the first place, and let them out on the street. What are a large portion of them going to do? The only thing they knew before they got locked up. Buy, use, and sell drugs. Arrested. Incarceration. Rinse. Repeat. Revolving door.
So saying all of that, I don't know if there is any actual "solution" to drug addiction or opiate addiction in particular. Those who want to use will use no matter what. However, we, as a society, can offer those who are addicted much more help than we currently are, lessen the crime status of the possession or small sales of drugs, and start treating those addicted with rehabilitation and therapy rather than incarceration.
I don't have a fix-all answer for you. It only worked for me because I was sick and tired of getting arrested over and over and over and in and out of prisons and rehabs and the constant up and down of being an addict. I was ready to quit because I hated my life. It just so happened to coincide with my arrest and 2.5 year prison incarceration. Speaking from someone who has been in prison, I can say with certainty that prison (at least the GA prison system) offers fuck all to addicts and prison itself is loaded with drugs. It's not the right answer for drug addiction. I don't know what is the right answer, but it's not that. -
2018-07-08 at 10:15 PM UTC in I think something might have happened to hydro
Originally posted by Cootehill She was a victim of opiates, which are imported and produced by jedis.
The war on drugs is literally a jedi plot to control the competition, to pathologise responsible drug use, and to prevent real, effective interventions in opiate users lives.
I am a former heroin addict myself. IV heroin user, went to prison for heroin and cocaine possession and oxycodone with intent to distribute. I know about opiate addiction plenty. I went on to become an entrepreneur. I now own my own business and am quite successful in life. Just celebrated 10 years clean.
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2018-07-01 at 3:37 PM UTC in Rate my BootlegThis is the wrong forum for this.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-01 at 5:44 PM UTC in i decided to leave my room and stop hiding from the worldThis didn't happen.
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2018-07-01 at 6:18 PM UTC in Wow people can be huge assholes sometimesMaybe you're a rude asshole for going into public places with a potentially contagious infection? Coughing and spitting up phlegm in front of people in a public place, clearly ill, at least, ill enough to not be at work, but not ill enough to be shitposting on a forum at the library spreading around your shit. You're the asshole.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-07-01 at 4:57 PM UTC in how the fucq do you see streetview in google maps.1. Find the address you want on Google Maps.
2. In the lower right corner, drag the little man onto the street you wish to view.
3. Laugh at black people in their squalor.
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2018-06-28 at 5:33 PM UTC in What is the biggest decision you’ve ever had to make?Probably whether to be by my mother's side as she spent her last night in a coma, dying from cancer or comforting my siblings who was having a really hard time processing it and couldn't be by her side...
Or my wife and I quitting our steady and familiar jobs, dumping quite literally every penny of our savings, and maxing out our credit cards to start our business.
Both were difficult decisions to make for different reasons, but those two stand out the most.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-06-17 at 5:07 PM UTC in BAN DH LANNY!!! fuk these wanna be niggas,, they aint shit but trouble for you guysShut up.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-17 at 5:17 PM UTC in are you friends with your neighbors?My building houses both the landlady and the maintenance man, both of which I am cool with. Across the hallway from me is a lady I don't really know, but I often wonder what she hears from my apartment when I am hardcore drunk, blasting music, and shouting at people on TC. We sometimes meet in the hallway on our way to work and it's always cordial. "Good morning! How are you?" and "Have a nice day". But in the back of my mind, I know that bitch be creepin'.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-17 at 5:04 PM UTC in §m£ÂgØL Gets A Wild Hair Up His Ass & Shitposts...The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-17 at 2:12 PM UTC in §m£ÂgØL Gets A Wild Hair Up His Ass & Shitposts......only to be slapped the fuck down. Sit down, you sniveling bitchThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-10 at 9:46 AM UTC in Current substanceThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-08 at 12:37 AM UTC in Everyone's favorite porn!?!?!?Ohhhhh let's see...
"Mother fucks son"
"Cougar creampie"
"Natural busty teen rides dick reverse cowgirl creampie"
"Girl fucks sleeping guy"
"Milking table"
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2018-04-01 at 7:21 AM UTC in What TV/Movie characters have people said you were like?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-03 at 1:06 AM UTC in guys im really worried about fonaplats
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2018-06-01 at 10:02 AM UTC in Let Us Hack DH Users Phones & iCloud Accounts & Steal Their Nude SelfiesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-05-28 at 6:08 PM UTC in You guys din do nuffinThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-06-01 at 10:08 AM UTC in RAPE IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY!
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2018-05-28 at 7 PM UTC in Shitting Out BloodThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
