1. Obviously you don't. Obviously I do. Why is this a question? 2. I think my perspective is rare enough among the people who pass legislation. It's also rare enough among citizens since stigmas still revolve around drug use or drug users, regardless of frequency or whether it interferes with their work. If it weren't this rare, citizens might actually influence those in power. Yes, legalizing weed was a good first step, but it is by no means the most powerful substance out there. So yes, it is rare. 3. If you had half a brain or have kept up with politics in the past 6 months, you'd be aware of the growing opioid problem. That's an issue for multiple reasons. But education on responsible use would help fix that problem. Furthermore, education on drug use in general is important, regardless of whether a substance is prescribed or not, is very important because many people use them daily. The stupidity in this comment is appalling and I hope you see why. 4. Absolutes are for the intellectually inept. Not enough people care about it or else we obviously wouldn't have the current problems that we do now. 5. Plugging isn't the only way to administer drugs. 6. Stay off my thread since your posts have done nothing to contribute to the discussion while suggesting that overdose is the answer for people who use drugs.
It depends on the drug and sometimes the person. Marijuana is the easiest drug to quit and is the least likely to kill you. If you overdose on it you lose your buzz (I don't smoke ik ppl who do). But if you are referring to harder drugs it's the substance not the person because they are mind altering drugs and very addictive.
Marijuana is fascinating in that its not physically addictive. But with frequency, harder drugs can easily become addictive. I would say this with regard to harder drugs: many have great, safe, medical applications that don't impair people. Obviously, some people's bodies don't respond as expected to drugs and they are truly impaired. But that is not the case for the majority of these harder drugs from my experience, and others Thanks for your thoughts!
1 - Pimd is based in Canada. 2 - No 3 - While the main contributor to addictive behaviours is a lack of proper social network or healthy hobby, certain drugs (considered harder drugs) are chemically addictive and aren't as easily swayed by lifestyle as softer drugs. I mean heck, my mother has caffeine addiction and gets some symptoms of withdrawal from it and she's a highly social person. This is very common. 4 - Law Makers in America are dumb 5 - People aren't going to effect change in the way you envision them, on this issue. People power is real but not for this non-issue. 6 - Prohibition works 7 - Drug education is important but this isn't a pamphlet on drug education and I think you're actually a little bit too ignorant to be pushing this as hard as you are. It's worrying. 8 - Marijuana was legalized? Where? In what states? If it was legalized, it was legalized because of the argument that it isn't worse than alcohol. If you think that drugs worse than alcohol and marijuana are going to be legalized, you can keep on puffing your doobies and eating your mushies in the back paddock where we don't need to listen to your rambling. 9 - You have to be very intelligent to understand Rick and Morty 10 - If everyone cared about drugs we wouldn't have these issues. Issues for drugs and people? Oh. We're not caring about people, just the drugs. Poor Heroin baby is disliked by society. We just need to educate people on how to handle weaopns-grade Plutonium and not worry about testing them and licensing rights to handle it. We just blurt more of the info into the public sphere and they'll know how to use it safely. Sorry, this isn't how this works. Drugs are low tier entertainment for normo boys. I'd rather people get addicted to ten-pin bowling. If you wanna make a real contribution, make a pamphlet about drugs and how to take them carefully and spread them around your neighbourhood and to your friends. You don't need to legalize drugs and then teach every dropout about neuropsychology and chemistry so they can take all of the legal hard drugs safely. You complain about dumb idiot nooboes who have absolutist (negative) views of drugs. In reality there are many dumb idiot nooboes who have absolutist (positive) views of drugs who get themsleves into harm.
I live in a heroin epidemic state where so many people die daily because of that drug my town even holds a yearly ceremony to light candles for the 100s of ppl we lose each to this drug. Harder drugs were meant for medical uses and still are but they are mostly misused resulting in the drugs issues we have now. Ie) heroin is for pain management yet it's the #1 killer in ny
The heroin is not so much the issue in overdose its the fentanyl and carfentynal they cut it with they are not chemists and dont know the ratios and everyones tolerance is diff at the end if the day everybody wants more bang for there buck
1. Great, I couldn't care less where ata is located. The opioid problem is known in any civilized country because of how fast news spreads. 2. No context. 3. I never said everyone should shoot meth. But I don't think meth is inherently bad. If you can't control yourself on a drug, that's a personal problem. But I think it's important for people to understand that it's a problem they need to take responsibility for, whether it's their street meth, their research chemicals, or prescription meds. Getting addicted to is no one's fault but the individual's. So it doesn't matter the "caliber", if you will of the drug. Some are more addicting and require more care if ever used. 4. Agreed. 5. My desire in this is to stimulate thought regarding drug use. Possibly talk about what solutions can be implemented. I'm working on a research paper regarding opioids and its purpose is to analyze the issue by including users, doctors, and pharmaceuticals based on scientific data. You'd be surprised how much scientific writing can influence legislation. 6. In what world has prohibition worked? The war on drugs in America preaches abstinence and has attempted to ban numerous substances, which just encourages new substances to arise. Please show me a country where drug prohibition has been successful. 7. I'm glad we can agree drug education is important. I'm curious as to why you think I'm ignorant. This is something I spend time researching and it's a topic I have much knowledge in. 8. 29 states here have legalized Marijuana for medical use and 8 states have legalized it for recreational use. You should brush up on your drug knowledge before calling someone else ignorant. Now, if you think most drugs are worse than alcohol, then you're mistaken, considering numerous cancers, heart disease, and just sheer stupidity all influences by alcohol cause hundreds of thousands of deaths a year. 9. Agreed 10. I'll continue with your analogy. We live in a world where plutonium is readily available to anyone with a computer and money. Many people play with plutonium while not fully understanding its power. I don't know why you automatically resorted to a heroine user (which is legal in a medical setting in Canada, I might add) when psychedelic drugs hold the most power of all drugs. I guess you're thinking more of the dirty stigmatized drugs. I'm sorry that you think I'm more focused on drugs than people. I'm willing to bet that I'm more aware of statistics regarding drug use than you. I am very aware how deadly these drugs can be. I'm very aware how and why they're deadly. I'm just also aware of how to prevent or mitigate the harm done by substances unlike the majority of society. There are forums dedicated to safe drug use and you can bet that those communities harbor are some of the safest, most well informed users of all. My desire, like I've said, is to get people thinking about drug use in general. I would like people to know the signs of different drug overdoses. Drugs are quite common and there's no telling who will use them, who will abuse them, and who may die from them. But if people are unwilling to acknowledge the problem to begin with, how will we prevent such irresponsible use? That is my view and why I see it as an issue. You're right, we don't need to legalize everything and attempt to educate people on the pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics of every substance. But I feel that it's my responsibility to simplify my knowledge to those who will use drugs regardless of the drug's legal status. I'm sorry you think dropouts are the only ones using drugs. I personally know doctors (absolutely amazing doctors) who have similar views and have experimented themselves with different substances. Sorry, but junkies aren't the only ones using drugs. I'll call out anyone using absolutes on either side. Someone like you using negative absolutes allows people to go uneducated on the dangers of drug use. Someone who uses positive absolutes causes people to die by misinformating users on the beauty and lack of danger. I don't use absolutes because nothing regarding substance use is absolute.
Well Heroin was made to ween people off their morphine addictions (such irony). Now that it's in existence, can't really take it out so we just have to deal with it. As blond said, the surge in heroin deaths is because some batches were cut with far more powerful opioids that are lethal in much smaller doses. Opioids can be quite nasty in that they don't seem harmful because they don't cause toxicity to the brain that would lead to death. Rather, they just cause people to stop breathing, essentially. Prescribed opioids and illegal opioids are interesting in their influence on each other. As one gets regulated, the other becomes more popular. The drug use continues regardless of regulation. Test kit awareness, at least for street drugs, would help prevent deaths from unregulated substances. Knowledge saves lives, but it needs to be readily available for everyone.
mitch here clean and sober 3 years pimd helped me when i had no freinds to turn too - meth will steal your soul its only a matter of time
That's awesome to hear. Meth addictions are quite terrible from what I have read/seen. Meth is particularly tricky because in therapeutic doses, it helps people with certain conditions but in large doses, it's destructive potential is very high; I would say the highest of all drugs. But in my opinion, that's still not the drug. In this case, it's not even the person (in most cases), it's the dose. This is one substance I would never recommend in any recreational dose because of its almost inevitable addiction potential.
both While there are hereditary genes among people that increase/decrease the likelihood of addiction, substances are still a major root of the problem. Whether you overdose or not, there are addictive additives within the drugs, which causes addiction, which then leads to overdosage in many cases. There are also many other harmful chemicals within the many different drugs that affect every person differently and create other issues, besides being addicted.
Re: both Well if the drug is pure, there should be nothing in the drug. That's not the case for most powders which is why there are testing kits. For a pure but cut substance (the majority of powders), a quick Google search will tech someone how they can purify their powder with cutting ingredients like baby powder or talc. So generally, it's just frequent use of the drug that causes the addiction, tolerance, and overdose.