dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can look at how things went down in the opium dens in China to see how that’d probably work out.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for giving up on the war on drugs immediately. Locking people up just for doing heroin or whatever is beyond stupid. But I’ve known a lot of junkies in my time, and none of them once reaching the big time addiction stage remained functioning members of society. Getting and consuming more opiates becomes priority #1 eventually, at the expense of everything else.
Same deal with meth, just from a different angle.
megsmagik@feddit.it 11 months ago
That is true for every addiction, like gambling, it’s not the opioid that makes you not functioning per se, I met some people that you couldn’t believe they were junkies because even if the substance was their priority it wasn’t at the expense of everything else. Alcohol abuse it’s the worst, I saw people devastated from it and it’s legal…