From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 12/1/23 16:46, 56g.1173 wrote:   
   > Hmmmm ... how does that work for people who live in   
   > those total-legalization cities ? Kinda hard to prove   
   > they got "legitimately" hooked first when they can   
   > just buy real/knock-off dope on the street and the   
   > cops just look the other way.   
      
   	This the fallout from the pharmecetical opiod   
   promotion when people were given legal drugs for pain   
   and then when they were cut off they looked to the   
   streets to relieve the pain that they started with   
   and then the pain of addiction which is pretty bad.?   
   The press given to the addictive quality of opiates   
   does not help.  I have been on strong pain killers   
   several times in my life but am more addicted to   
   chocolate than anything else.  i say this despite   
   the fact that I use medical strength cannabis to   
   promote sleep.   
   >   
   > ANYway ... kinda way SICK of these "deep pockets"   
   > things. Nobody MADE people gulp down zillions of   
   > those pills and the makers just fill orders, not   
   > work out deep stats. "ABuse" stuff is further down   
   > the chain, at the law-enforcement level.   
      
   	Pain of trauma and of addiction are pretty   
   strong motivation to take these damn things.  Fentanyl   
   is an excellent anesthetic when used by qualified persons   
   but a killer when street drugs of unknowable strength   
   and quality is taken.   
      
   >   
   > Oh, better the dopeheads were taking pharma grade   
   > instead of whatever crap gets brewed in a Mexican   
   > "lab". We've lately seen what THAT looks like -   
   > fentanyl in everything now - and how MUCH, nobody   
   > is ever sure - plus all the ultra-contaminated   
   > meth going around, 'tar' heroin .....   
      
   	"Dopeheads" are just people who were convinced   
   that they needed to take opiates on a regular schedule.   
   When you only take opiates to deal with the pain you are   
   having not the pain you are anticipating, it has litle   
   power over the individual.   
      
   	The whole class of junkie was created when the   
   the Harrison Narcotics Act off 1917 was passed. Before   
   that the medical addicts from the Civil war and the   
   other conflicts that had come home with constant pain   
   went to the their doctor's office for medication via   
   oral or hypodermic injection.   
      
   	Alcohol still is killing a lot of people every   
   year directly and from side effects such as erratic   
   vehicular operation.   
      
   bliss - addicted to chocolate, computer text and breathing.   
   Once you get used to the Oxygen with nitrogen it is hard to   
   go back to breathing ammonia and carbon monoxide.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)