Posted on 11/26/2022 4:37:10 PM PST by artichokegrower
A 19-year-old former foster child is caught in the grip of a fentanyl addiction after being moved to a San Francisco halfway-house beside an open-air drug camp.
The baby-faced teenager, who gave his name as Noah Santana-Cobain, found a ready and available supply of the powerful synthetic opioid after being assigned to the city's Larkin Center, on the edge of its notorious Tenderloin District.
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Obviously coming from someone who has never been addicted to drugs. So sanctimonious of you to point out the root cause of it all. You should write a book or start a pod cast. Think of all the lives you could save with that little golden nugget. “Don’t let anyone hold you down and force drugs on you!” Whew, problem solved for about a billion people world wide!!!
19 is not young in that business.
In our city, 16 year old ODs are not common…nor are they rare.
Taking fentanyl or ANY non-prescribed drug is a choice. Bad choices can have bad outcomes. The outcome is on the user as much as on the supplier. All drug dealers should be executed; all users risk self-execution.
I feel very sorry for this young man. His life is a sh@tshow and what resources does he have to leave the scene? He might turn out OK with help.
“Being raised a foster child, his dopamine receptors would have been damaged”
Source? Link?
https://www.livescience.com/18453-child-abuse-brain.html
There is lots of information about how damaged childhood leads to many disorders in adults.
All kinds of psychiatric conditions as well as exposure to environmental stressors are seen to correlate with areas of increased or decreased volume and activity in the brain. This is different from saying “his dopamine receptors are damaged”.
https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/education/bcr/addiction-research/drug-abuse-brain-ru-915
Ultimately, people who have drug and alcohol and other addictions, like pornography, are looking for the reward that comes from the release of dopamine.
I like Misery and Velveeta
>>Kurt Cobain, as we all know....<<
Heroin involvement ended with a shotgun suicide.
Yeah.
Sounds like he had a lot of drug-related issues.
It takes a village here is the outcome
It takes a church or a spiritual brother or sister to step in when your parents have failed you as completely as they did with this young man.
As deadly as Fentanyl is-—How can anyone develop an addiction???
That implies multiple usage.
ADD Participation Trophies to the recipe.
Another great moment was when Jimmy Kimmel said after her disastrous bit, “Courtney has asked me to invite everyone to the intervention after the show.”
“I’ve been clean and sober for a year!” Love exclaimed.
Jimmy Kimmel quipped back, saying, “Well, I hope that’s not true, because if you’re not on drugs, you got problems.”
LOL, that’s pretty good.
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