rsd1200
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Their overdose rate for tonight (9 overdoses and 1 death per 22,000 people) is significantly lower than in my area on most days. No Konvicted Family or Mexican gangs selling hot shots exist in my area, yet addicts still overdose and die. I'm personally sick of LE essentially enabling addicts by blaming heroin dealers and even doctors. Addicts cannot become clean until they take complete responsibility for their own addiction. They search out dealers, pay for their bags, cook their heroin, and then inject themselves. Gangs and doctors don't force them to do this.
Big Pharma gives docs kickbacks for prescribing the pills, that are known to be highly addictive, for reasons that it was not made for, and oxy has now been approved by the FDA to be provided to children as young as 11. Withdrawal itself can be so dangerous, (even with alcoholics), that they have to be placed in the hospital and medically taken through the beginning withdrawal and Delirium tremens, so that they do not die, b/c they can become so frail that their body and organs cannot withstand what they will go through. I have seen that with alcoholics. Heroin is said to be some of the most horrible pain one can feel when going into withdrawal. Why else would someone risk their life, like Russian Roulette, to get a hit?
I've seen people do things that I'd have never thought, b/c they got hooked on pills and then the docs yanked them off, and Heroin, or other street drugs, was the closest thing, or the thing, to what they were prescribed. I feel bad for addicts. I'd never want to go through feeling like that whole life's focus was wondering where my next hit was coming from, and wondering if it would kill me next time, but the pain was so great that I'd take that chance. My friend's adult child is going through this. This is a man who held a high position in the military. Retired with full benefits and an honorable discharge. No one sets out to be an addict.