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black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours agoPoverty and trauma makes peoples faces gaunt and haggardly and destroys lives. Heroin addiction is one of many other potential symptoms of poverty and trauma. Plenty of people use opiates and opioids medically and recreationally to no ill effects. The drugs are a comfortable scapegoat for people who care more about maintaining their personal status quo than the ability for other people to survive.
Agrivar@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 minutes ago
I don’t use, personally, though I have had opiates for acute pain as most people have. I’m just not a judgemental asshole. Opium isn’t the problem, fent is.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 3 minutes ago
I would go as far as to say no single chemical is “the problem” and that entire perspective is brutally reductionist. There are so many problems with the way we’re living, pinning the blame on the existence of temporary escape is so backwards and cruel it’s hard for me to imagine what makes someone think that way. “TrickDacy” is really showing their whole ass here
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Plenty of people use opiates and opioids medically and recreationally to no ill effects.
A dangerous lie that is insane to have not been downvoted dozens of times minimum.
naeap@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Nope, it’s true
I’m not on the needle and enjoyed quite some opiates during my experimental late-youth
The rule for every recreational drug is to not use it, when you “need” it, but only in festive occasions or periods.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I know several people whose lives were entirely wrecked by opiates. This is a dangerous fucking pack of lies that should get you banned for spreading. This is several times worse than spreading anti vaxx rhetoric.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I know multiple functional addicts. I know way more non functional addicts, but it’s not as black and white as you want it to be.
naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
They shouldn’t be handed out like candy, as they did in the USA.
I’m with you on that.
Still doesn’t make my stuff a lie, especially what I said about myself
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You left an edit that basically blamed people for their mental problems, in service of defending the most dangerously addictive drug maybe to ever exist.
naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
That was not what I meant to do
I’m not blaming anyone.
I’m just saying we should focus more on mental health problems, than punishing drug crimes - because drugs aren’t the problem, but how we as a society handle people with problemsI thought, I made that clear enough with the “trying to function” part
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 17 minutes ago
Just wanted to say this was an insightful and empathetic post from someone who clearly has a lot more direct experience than the guy going off about heroin itself chemically ruining lives