Do you know what your kids call that drug? "Hillbilly heroin"
Did you know it can cause hearing loss?
Drugs are drugs are drugs... Cigarettes and alcohol included..
I guess I'm addicted to drugs too. I take them every day. And I deal with the side effects: Moody-ness, depression, weight gain, fluid retention, osteoporossis. If I were to stop taking my pills every day, I would die. This isn't overstating things. The drug I take is prednisone, and I've been taking it since the mid-1980's.
According to your logic, I'm no different than crack-addicts on the street. Or maybe, since it's related to steroids, then I'm as bad as body builders who "dope up."
"Hillbilly Heroin" is oxycontin that's been crushed, defeating the time release feature of the drug. This is why it's so dangerous. Abusers get a huge rush, a sometimes fatal dose of the drug, which was designed to be released over a 12 hour period. When taken properly, you don't get a "rush" or euphoria from oxycontin. If you've ever listened to Rush, there's no way he could work at the level he does and be "impaired." The reason that I'm familiar with oxycontin (and with hydrocodone) is that I took them both (very rarely... I was more afraid of dealing with the possibility of addiction than of dealing with the pain) to treat the pain from a bad case of shingles. Until I had shingles, I thought I knew what "real" pain was, including having a lumbar disk extrude into my spinal canal, and having a torsion of the testicle. I was wrong!
I'm against the WOD... And that includes things like my prednisone.
Mark
My point is this: We cannot pretend to know what is best for an individual. It should be up to the individual to make the right decisions in their life, not the government to make those decisions for you.
We don't lock people up because they might do something bad, we lock them up WHEN they do something bad.
Crack addicts on the street, so long as they don't do any real harm to anyone but themselves, are no burdan to me. Same with steroids... Who cares if some dude wants to juice up, unless he throws that steroid rage on someone and punches them out, then lock them up.
People have lots of reasons why they should or should not take drugs. Were not children, we can make decisions on our own.
Actually I'm WAY more hostile towards Social Security, Medicade, and forced income tax. They could have the WOD if I got that control of my money back.