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I think about a family member back in NJ every day. 20+ years in and out of rehab. I only wish I could have done more and saved them.
I know it wasn't their fault.
I think about a family member back in NJ every day. 20+ years in and out of rehab. I only wish I could have done more and saved them.
I know it wasn't their fault.
You just can't save some people, PDD. Some want help and can't find it. Others receive help, go to rehab, and it doesn't stick. Some get it by the third or fourth time through.
One of my high school friends became an addict and eventually commit suicide. My nephew, my sister's son, died from huffing. It wasn't heroin, but it really doesn't matter in the end.
I've put up a couple of rehab graduates at my son's request. They had been good friends, and one still is.
Not going to happen, but when they kick your a@@ out of rehab, you need a mommy and a daddy. Someone needs to make sure that you eat, bathe, wear clean clothes and look for a job.
Where does most drug initiation happen? In high schools?
In doctors' offices, unfortunately...
When MDs & DOs overprescribe opioids (Oxycontin, Percoset) for chronic pain problems, they are setting up the possibility for a weak-willed person to become addicted to those substances. Then, due to the reality that opiates (heroin) are cheaper on the street than the chemically-similar opioids marketed by Big Pharma, you have the current situation with which we are faced.
If so many physicians weren't so prone to over-dispensing of opioid pain medications, we would have only a small fraction of the number of opiate addicts that we see currently.
I was surprised there weren't more comments on the story. I think a lot of people are still in denial about the extent of the problem in NJ and elsewhere. The reality is heroin addiction touches thousands and thousands of families in NJ. I have a hard time thinking of anyone I know whose family has NOT been touched by addiction (to one substance or another).
So,what do people want the goverment to do?
Rehab costs $$$.
If someone truly wants to get off drugs,they will.
I understand some herion addicts need Methadone to kick the habit.
I say legalize drugs.
Will deaths spike? Yes,unfortunately.
Is there anyone out there over 14 that does not know drugs can kill you?
No
This is simplistic thinking. And if it is one thing we have learned about drug addiction, it is that it is anything but simplistic.
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