Posted on 05/22/2018 8:27:51 AM PDT by OneVike
Is that a question or a statement? Anyway, having been a bouncer, bartender and bar manager in a former life, I can tell you that saloon owners are operating under a set of rules; drug dealers (and even doctors who fail to follow up on their medicated patients) are not. Knowingly serve an intoxicated patron and you risk your license plus civil liability. Have habitual troublemakers causing police calls to your establishment and you may get your license suspended or revoked.
“There comes a time when it’s not a choice and I do not expect you to understand that at all.”
Was it a choice for the couple featured in the article to load their child in the car and go rob a bank?
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Thanks for posting this. Rings very true. I have several friends and family members who have struggled with drug abuse and addiction. One just got out of jail for it. Another has pretty much lost everything. But I have seen some delivered from through their faith and walk with Jesus.
You are mistaking physical dependence as being addiction. Your body became accustomed to the drug. You weren’t lying to get drugs, or faking a pain, or any other drug seeking behavior assiated with addiction. Had you just tritated down the dose you probably would have been ok. Trying stopping coffee cold turkey. Caffeine is not great to stop cold and in fact it sucks but you probably wouldnt refer to yourself as an addict. Physical dependence is far different than addiction.
I said addiction.
If you are fortunate enough to have never been addicted to anything like alcohol, tobacco, painkillers, or opium it would be difficult to explain so you’d understand what the compulsion to relapse feels like. In the case of tobacco, my former habit, the extreme anxiety when the effects of your last cigarette begin to wear off is genuine and physical. For months after I quit I’d have dreams about having a cigarette. For those who have quit, remaining “sober” is a day to day struggle. It may be a “choice” to start, but once addicted the craving never fully goes away. Better to pray thanks that there but for God’s grace go you than critique others for what you perceive as their weakness.
Yes, addiction.
But the couple in the article used their addictions as an excuse to take their kids along on an armed bank robbery.
At that point, they are vile human filth.
Addiction doesn’t even have to be chemical in nature. Gambling can also be an addiction.
“Your body became accustomed to the drug.”
Perhaps they should become addicted to large doses of personal responsibility.
Wouldn't it be surprising then, if you looked deeper then your own knowledge, to find that there is some research out there that suggests genetics are at hand. Some have a proclivity to overuse... your opinion, and many on this thread, is so sad to see. If all you have is anger then i suggest you avoid commentating on subjects like theses.
Actually, Gambling is one of the most destructive of all the addictions. I’ve seen it up front and personal. I live in a gambling town. The stories I have seen and heard are heartbreaking.
Actually, Gambling is one of the most destructive of all the addictions. I’ve seen it up front and personal. I live in a gambling town. The stories I have seen and heard are heartbreaking.
And now the government has officially blessed sports gambling.
See my post above. Better start rethinking your choice of words.
I forgot that. I too read Doyle’s story, “The Man With the Twisted Lip.”.
I have the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes in two volumes.
Sherlock was hooked on opium.
While the liberal author of this article attempts to make this junkie couple seem sympathetic, the facts are they are criminal thugs.
Thanks, and prayers for your daughter and you. For the fight is real and it can be long.
Christ is the only way out
The point was.....had I just kept taking the drug, instead of flushing them, I may have done all that you mentioned to keep getting them.
Yep
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