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Old 07-02-2011, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Vegas, baby, Vegas!
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Uhm... firstly, methadone is not injected, it is swallowed so you don't need to buy needles or alcohol swabs. LOL
Secondly, if you did inject it, you don't buy needles, you make friends with diabetics.
Sorry I am not up on my drug humor, I will do more research before my next post, or .. shall I say.. My injection of humor.

Jonathan
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Old 07-02-2011, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Vegas, baby, Vegas!
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LOL My son is a recovering addict and has a full time job Jonathan All addicts do not look or act like the street junkies portrayed in the movies. You would be surprised how many highly positioned people are actually addicts. Case in point, Henderson's city attorney who was recently arrested for DUI at 3 pm.
PS: I am a former addict as well, my addiction was.. food
more sociably acceptable, but just as life threatening..

Jonathan
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Old 07-02-2011, 09:34 PM
 
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Don't get too holier than thou...the Las Vegas model is not the functioning addict. It is the dreary tweaker living by petty crime and chutzpah. Skinny, bad teeth, damaged intelligence.

There is some acceptance of the alcoholic....there, but for the grace of God, go I.

So we consider the addict more a major societal nuisance. And very difficult and expensive to contain. Even if you feel they should not be locked up the society still has to pay the piper...and libertarian Nevada will never be good at that.

My son has a 165 IQ documented by Vanderbilt Medical Center. He has great teeth, blue eyes and is not skinny. The reason "functioning addicts" are not noticed is because they don't "look like addicts". There are just as many, if not MORE of the "model addicts" out there than there are tweakers.
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Old 07-02-2011, 09:35 PM
 
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Sorry I am not up on my drug humor, I will do more research before my next post, or .. shall I say.. My injection of humor.

Jonathan

I was just giving you a hard time. I hope life is going GREAT for you
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Old 07-02-2011, 09:36 PM
 
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PS: I am a former addict as well, my addiction was.. food
more sociably acceptable, but just as life threatening..

Jonathan

Good point and one my son has brought up to me several times.
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Old 07-02-2011, 10:41 PM
 
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I will pray for all you that mock. I'm sure you will never have a problem n your life.
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Old 07-03-2011, 01:21 AM
 
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I am a bit surprised at the level of outright judgment. If the post was how much does alcohol cost in LV nobody would take a second glance. Being addicted to alcohol is acceptable somehow though. Probably because there has yet to be an alcohol commercial showing a guy puking all night and losing his family and job.
I don't discriminate. I have as little sympathy for alcoholics as I have for other drug addicts. They are a liability and burden on society due to their own poor choices. This forum has started a leper type colony for ADHD kids, I'm fine with sending the methadone, crack, (insert drug here) and alcohol addicts there as well.
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Old 07-03-2011, 01:53 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas / GV
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i thought the cost of methadone pretty much anywhere was something like 20 years.... obviously depending on how much you are buying...
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Old 07-03-2011, 04:01 AM
 
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I don't discriminate. I have as little sympathy for alcoholics as I have for other drug addicts. They are a liability and burden on society due to their own poor choices. This forum has started a leper type colony for ADHD kids, I'm fine with sending the methadone, crack, (insert drug here) and alcohol addicts there as well.
I think my 100x "Rate this post positively" button just broke from me pounding it so hard. I can't stand those idiots (including many doctors) who call addiction a disease. What a crock. It's a personality flaw based on denial and selfishness. One that must be corrected through intense therapy. That first hit of crack or coke or heroin had to happen when they were sober. Calling it a disease absolves addicts of their personal responsibility. Very little sympathy here, sorry.
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Old 07-03-2011, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Vegas, baby, Vegas!
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I will pray for all you that mock. I'm sure you will never have a problem n your life.
"He who is without sin, shall cast the first stone"

Oops there I am talking about getting stoned again..

Sorry

Jonathan
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