Namaste and thank you for joining me today for this short blog. Welcome to all my friends, family, and fellow knowledge seekers. Today I want to talk briefly about opiate addiction.
I know that things like this are often a difficult subject to discuss for many people. The horrific thoughts and images associated with drug addiction are painful, destroying lives and families. Drug addiction is one of the worst things an individual can go through in his or her lifetime. Chronic mental or physical pain that drives a person over the edge and into the hands of a potentially life ending drug is unimaginable for most people. It all starts simple enough with an injury or chronic pain that won't seem to go away. The doctors don't know what to do with you but prescribe you narcotics like Oxycontin and Vicodin. Soon the pills aren't enough to take the pain away, or the all too familiar prospect of not being able to afford the expensive pills.
Pain is entirely subjective and is difficult to look at in an objective manner. It is nearly impossible for one person to accurately be able to describe and understand the pain of another. We all have different tolerances to pain and unfortunately the tolerance of some is low. We all have different levels of tolerance to drug addiction. It can happen to the best of us. What sufferers need is empathy and understanding rather than the typical responses of fear and judgement.
So pain can drive a person right into the open arms of addiction to the street drug market and for the sake of this discussion we are talking about opiate pills leading to the use of street heroin. Heroin is cheaper and more available than over the counter prescription pills. I am in NO WAY glamorizing or an any way saying that ANY part of this drug is okay. It is NOT. However, as a former drug addict who was addicted to methamphetamines, I can look at it and see; truly understand the pathology and psychology of addiction. IT'S A MOTHER FUCKER. It takes strength and courage like most people would not understand to quit.
Okay, I got a little off topic there. The overall point is that opiate addiction hasn't been taken seriously enough. There isn't a lot of talk about it in the media. They just bury the junkie bodies and pretend like it's business as usual. The only time they seem to take it seriously is when a fake "celebrity" or athlete is caught using. THEN it becomes a big deal!!! Opiate pills lead to heroin use. What's the real gateway drug? It could very well be the pills in your medicine cabinet. Big Pharma is the big drug dealer, creating addicts from their product to which they show no remorse. Big Pharma is only concerned with making a profit, even if that means turning their customers into drug addicts. Then we have the military industrial complex that is STILL to this day in Afghanistan using American troops to guard fields of poppy that are used to make opiates INCLUDING heroin that since the war on terror has flooded the illegal drug markets in the USA making it cheap and easy to get.
But why would you want to go through this? I'll tell you. Chronic pain makes a LOT of people desperate for relief. Desperation is step one in making a addict who then becomes a junkie. A good movie that shows the effects of heroin addiction and the fucked up shit it does to the body is "Trainspotting"; also "Requiem for a Dream". Both of these movies show the darker side of addiction and even though they are sensationalized for a Hollywood movie, the effects ARE REAL.
So to get down to brass tacks of the subject, addiction is a bitch. If you know anyone who suffers from this addiction it is good to know that there IS help out there for those in need. No one should have to suffer alone. If you or anyone you know is smacked out on heroin, please urge them to stop now before they become just another overdose statistic that ruins lives and families.
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Empathy.
I know that things like this are often a difficult subject to discuss for many people. The horrific thoughts and images associated with drug addiction are painful, destroying lives and families. Drug addiction is one of the worst things an individual can go through in his or her lifetime. Chronic mental or physical pain that drives a person over the edge and into the hands of a potentially life ending drug is unimaginable for most people. It all starts simple enough with an injury or chronic pain that won't seem to go away. The doctors don't know what to do with you but prescribe you narcotics like Oxycontin and Vicodin. Soon the pills aren't enough to take the pain away, or the all too familiar prospect of not being able to afford the expensive pills.
Pain is entirely subjective and is difficult to look at in an objective manner. It is nearly impossible for one person to accurately be able to describe and understand the pain of another. We all have different tolerances to pain and unfortunately the tolerance of some is low. We all have different levels of tolerance to drug addiction. It can happen to the best of us. What sufferers need is empathy and understanding rather than the typical responses of fear and judgement.
So pain can drive a person right into the open arms of addiction to the street drug market and for the sake of this discussion we are talking about opiate pills leading to the use of street heroin. Heroin is cheaper and more available than over the counter prescription pills. I am in NO WAY glamorizing or an any way saying that ANY part of this drug is okay. It is NOT. However, as a former drug addict who was addicted to methamphetamines, I can look at it and see; truly understand the pathology and psychology of addiction. IT'S A MOTHER FUCKER. It takes strength and courage like most people would not understand to quit.
Okay, I got a little off topic there. The overall point is that opiate addiction hasn't been taken seriously enough. There isn't a lot of talk about it in the media. They just bury the junkie bodies and pretend like it's business as usual. The only time they seem to take it seriously is when a fake "celebrity" or athlete is caught using. THEN it becomes a big deal!!! Opiate pills lead to heroin use. What's the real gateway drug? It could very well be the pills in your medicine cabinet. Big Pharma is the big drug dealer, creating addicts from their product to which they show no remorse. Big Pharma is only concerned with making a profit, even if that means turning their customers into drug addicts. Then we have the military industrial complex that is STILL to this day in Afghanistan using American troops to guard fields of poppy that are used to make opiates INCLUDING heroin that since the war on terror has flooded the illegal drug markets in the USA making it cheap and easy to get.
But why would you want to go through this? I'll tell you. Chronic pain makes a LOT of people desperate for relief. Desperation is step one in making a addict who then becomes a junkie. A good movie that shows the effects of heroin addiction and the fucked up shit it does to the body is "Trainspotting"; also "Requiem for a Dream". Both of these movies show the darker side of addiction and even though they are sensationalized for a Hollywood movie, the effects ARE REAL.
So to get down to brass tacks of the subject, addiction is a bitch. If you know anyone who suffers from this addiction it is good to know that there IS help out there for those in need. No one should have to suffer alone. If you or anyone you know is smacked out on heroin, please urge them to stop now before they become just another overdose statistic that ruins lives and families.
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Empathy.
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