(April 10, 2017 at 8:09 pm)AceBoogie Wrote: Actually, no. I think when you're on heavy drugs your thinking is so clouded that you can't really correctly analyze a situation even if you wanted to.
Well, I always had the wherewithal to stay away from a needle. Even though I was extremely self-destructive, I knew that once you cross that line, it's extremely difficult to come back from. I could see the effect it had on the people around me using needles, and I knew I would lose control if I went there. Maybe I was just always holding out hope that life didn't have to be like that.
Have you been following the opiate epidemic? Part of the reason overdoses are so prevalent right now is that dealers have started cutting heroin with carfentanyl, which is an analogue of fentanyl. For those that aren't aware, fentanyl is so powerful that doses are measured in micrograms, so the addicts that have a tolerance to heroin ingest the large amount it takes to get them high. Only they're ingesting a much more powerful drug that they don't have a tolerance to and dying. There was one small town in West Virginia that had something like 25-30 overdoses in one day because of carfentanyl.
Here's some statistics for anyone interested in just how much overdoses have increased since 2002...
https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics...eath-rates
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