Posted on 07/02/2020 10:23:22 AM PDT by familyop
Steven Manzo...spent much of his early 20s struggling with a drug addiction...Manzo, who worked as a cook and bartender in Michigan...Joanne Manzo told Arroyo...he...told her “that he’s not going to be able to handle this lockdown.” “He is not one to be shut in and he knew right from the start he wasn’t going to be able to handle it,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So one fewer drug addict in the world. Sorry, out of rats’ behinds to give today.
“Relaxing, getting exercise and other activities at home and elsewhere are not stressful as compared to the workplace for straight people.”
Who appointed you the spokesperson for all “straight people”? I certainly don’t find it less stressful, and I am classed an “essential worker” so I’ve been able to get out of the house a couple days a week throughout the whole lockdown. The days I go to work are much less stressful than the days I “work from home”.
If this was just a voluntary vacation, I think you would be correct, but that’s not what this is and we know that. I’d say the knowledge that it is an involuntary confinement is a major stressor, especially in people who already don’t have good stress-management strategies in place.
well the fault does not lie with society, if blame is being dished out
primarily him, and secondarily with the parents
So you’re saying addicts can’t handle ‘stress’ sitting around at home, with a frigerator stocked playing Netflex and watching TV or occupying themselves with home chores etc. like everyone else does?
But the streets are less stressful??
My cousin killed himself with 200 tylenol after years of drugging and petty crime. Left a suicide note.
I know for about 1 week I spiraled into a deep depression from the lockdown. I guess I have a little bit of a history of depression
Had I taken my own life I would have deserved it :-)
Life is hard. Everybody’s got their weaknesses. I’m sure there’s a bunch of fat ####s roaming around everywhere right now including me. Just because our addiction doesn’t lead to instant death doesn’t mean it’s any better or we are any stronger.
and doctors say the best way to lose weight is not gain it in the first place. Same thing with drugs
Many multi millionaire Steven Bing who was bipolar...or depressive..cant remember...killed himself during the lockdown
I remember when trump started talking about suicides and mental depression very early on and he was basically mocked for it during the briefings
There are many healthy and productive things to do away from the usual place of employment. There are other jobs, too. As for the mental problems, most of those are caused by drug abuse. Common knowledge.
......”Those places and related businesses (like bars) are now generally notorious for drug activity”.....
They always have been. So I find it interesting her son was working in a bar, therefore it’s questionable if he was actually recovered. Rather that the loss of working work there cut off is supply network was why he told her he wouldn’t be able to handle being home....
Sorry lady, the press is not interested in your story about how the democrat lockdowns are hurting people. Now if the drug overdose was HCQ they’d be all over it, every cable show would run with it 24/7 for a week.
“As for the mental problems, most of those are caused by drug abuse. Common knowledge.”
That statement just reveals you don’t know what you’re talking about. Nobody in the mental health field would ever say that most mental problems are “caused by drug abuse”. Absolutely preposterous.
What they like to label as mental health problems, is nothing more than an individual never having been taught to be self-sufficient, never been taught to have values or self-esteem...never been taught to turn to God for strength...never been taught to value life, never been taught to see the potential to achieve whatever they wanted, if they work hard for it. They’ve only been taught to be dependent on others, self-centered, and that drugs are the answer to escape the hell they themselves created. I learned a long time ago, that most of the problems I have, I’ve created myself, and I accepted responsibility for them. I thank God I was born in 1947 when this country still had God, hope, patriotism, compassion, and life had value. These young kids are a product of the evilness of liberalism.
......”after years of drugging and petty crime”.....
Key word is AFTER.
And DOPE use is rising. Add in the Fenatayl OD’s highly probably.
In your summation you totally ignore the fact that he had been clean & sober for 8 years. So yes, the fact that he had too much time on his hands and no way fill that time, played a major role in his sliding back into destructive patterns. His work and his self-sufficiency had been the key to his success over the addiction. Without that, his mind then wandered back towards his addiction. You can minimize that fact all you like, but you still remain wrong in doing so. Man is complex, and addictions are powerful. Far more succumb then continue in success when denied their coping outlets, because idle minds and hands are the devil's playground.
Overdose Deaths Are Rising Again and the Pandemic Is Making It Worse — Pain News Network
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2020/6/25/overdose-deaths-are-rising-again-and-the-pandemic-is-making-it-worse
Meanwhile Intractable Pain Patients are treat like criminals, many have been forced tapered to 0, and turn to DOPE. These are people, VETS, who have level 10 pain 24/7/365 20 or more yrs, and now are wheelchair or bed bound on DSSI, where with the pain meds they held jobs, paid taxes.
“In your summation you totally ignore the fact that he had been clean & sober for 8 years.”
There is way to prove that fact.
Therefore, we have no idea if he was sober for 8 years or 8 hours.
I don’t doubt overdose deaths are up and people who needed their job to afford pain meds are denied those meds because they cannot shell out the money.
Every day that goes by this makes me angrier and angrier.
Again you show your lack of knowledge
But since we do not know if he had been clean & sober, as well as, not knowing if he had continued being a daily consumer, there is no way you can claim you are right. You're just offering your opinion, which is fine. But I doubt that he was if he held down a job and lived on his own. In fact, I am only offering my opinion as well, based upon what we have been told via the article. I may be wrong, if the information supplied was inaccurate.
This is after all, just an exercise in debate, and I chose to engage in the debate as you presented your opinion as based upon fact, which of course, it is not. 8>)
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