All the high end pain killers are opiate based. We quite literally created a nation of junkies with Oxy and its friends, then we realized that was a mistake and clamped down on the scrip houses, but forgot about all the people that were already hooked. That’s a major source of the adult heroin problem.
I think we did that back in the '50s with barbiturates and amphetamines. Synthetic drugs didn't have the stigma attached to the opium-derived drugs like heroin that the "drug addicts" used.
Read somewhere that 50 % of adults in drug treatment centers were hooked on Oxy prescribed by their doctors because of injury or auto accidents ...
Regular Joe and Jane citizens who simply hurt themselves wind up as junkies...very sad
I had knee surgery several years ago and was prescribed a form of Oxy...took it for two days and was like whoa this stuff really puts the hooks into you...I stopped cold turkey and just did large doses of Aleve...
100% right. How many vets are now on heroin because the VA care plan was 80 mg Oxy for six months, then cut them off on the first day of the 7th month. Listen to Sam Stone by John Prine and realize the the more things change, the more they stay the same. Just the wars have changed. I feel sorry for anyone hooked on opiates..
I’m an Alumni of the Origins Recovery Center, spent my time there a few years back. While some of us were there for alcohol most were there for drug addictions and most were over 30 and had jobs. To look at them you’d never guess they were addicts, they held good jobs and dressed well. One in particular who I developed a friendship with was an offshore guide in the Bahama’s and was running three boats and doing well. He was also a heroin addict and began using when he was 40.
That’s a major source of the adult heroin problem.
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Perhaps in a sense that is the major source. But the ultimate source is the personal choices that individuals such as these have made in abandoning God and involving themselves with false gods.
And, yes, I have sympathy for people who are addicted to substances, but there is no excuse for putting your destructive needs above the wellbeing of children who are entrusted to your care.