I really can’t get concerned when junkies die from overdoses. Junkies are arguably the most useless human beings on the planet. They steal they lie. Their only concern is keeping high. No one forced these them to become junkies. It’s a path they chose knowing what inevitably lies at the end of it. To hell with them
You have a 40 year old view of the problem with junkies shooting up in dark alleys in cities.
Today, it’s your neighbor’s clean suburban 17 year old kid at a party dying from his or her first or second time taking pills. It’s the same kid who managed to escape death for a while but got hooked, got help, got clean, but had a single relapse at age 22. It’s the kids who got a severe sports injury and got addicted to the opiod pain killers prescribed by the doctor. It’s the student taking Xanax to cope with stress during finals.
You really owe it to yourself to learn about this problem.
There are three drugs where if someone put a gun to my temple and told me to take them, I’d say no, pull the trigger; Heroin (and now the synthetics that are worse), meth, and crack. In that order.
But I have learned over time how addicting these things are. Some of them will make you crave them for much of a lifetime after just one use, or so I’ve been told.
But young people, despite efforts to educate, haven’t learned what a threat it is, and what it will turn you into. They don’t know the difference between some supposed recreational or party drugs and the ones that are instant puppet masters. Like ProtectOurFreedom said, naive kids get a little group influence put on them at a party or whatever and have no clue what they’re in for.
The real problem is the people profiteering on death and misery. How are they not like terrorists? The only difference I would say is that a real terrorist wants to inflict maximum psychological harm, where-as a dealer/distributor just doesn’t care about anyone and tells themself that if people are stupid enough to take it, then they’re going to make a buck off them, or someone else will. These people wont stop until they see other’s frying for it, and even then... who knows
You are right.
A junkie, is a junkie and it does not matter how they got hooked on drugs.
The crackhead and the methhead are the same as a person that is addicted to pain pills.
Sounds like a self curing problem to me. The problem is the solution.
I spent 25 years working on the streets in the most crime ridden city in the Northwest. We had twice the rate of criminal activity as Seattle and 50% more than Portland. Your view of druggies and the problems they create is far more accurate than the fuzzy bunny portrayal advocated by the persons who scolded you here and said that you were “40 years behind the times”. This is from someone who spent his career often bringing the exact same losers back from the dead with Narcan and CPR.
The media and the entertainment industry is pushing a false narrative on this issue that portrays the users in a very sympathetic light that is almost completely false. They typically start with alcohol and marijuana and keep wanting more and more. There is an abundance of information and even popular songs available to them for decades letting them know where they are headed. We always did our best to save them, but I don't shed a lot of tears these days over the ones we didn't find in time. It was sheer stupidity. Usually the ones we would find dead were doing it alone because they had already alienated all of their friends and family. Often they had been dead and decaying for days or weeks.
I generally agree, but a lot of unsuspecting people get hooked by prescription drugs given to them by trusted doctors and hospitals after they have had operations and are in pain.
Our medical profession prescribes to many of these drugs and also prescribes too long a period of taking these drugs and by the time the pills are all taken, the patient can be hooked on them. -Tom
They are someone’s son or daughter, lost, but loved. If you saw it up close, you would understand. #IvoryTowerView