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Dude, you aren't a fucking O.G.... you are a dropout from Michigan with zero class.
Typical black sock wearing 909 d-bag. Who cares if he can ride a motorcycle fast... life is going to reach up and bitch slap him.
Spot on JW.
if people jumped off this kids nuts like they were rotten , He would bottom out and have maybe a real chance.
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I've tried to be really understanding towards addicts, with this understanding that it's a disease and not their fault but I can longer play that game. Even having watching my Aunt kill herself with the drugs, many friends at the brink, and a wife that is self medicating with alcohol, I just don't buy the 'disease' angle. I believe that many people have poor pain tolerance and poor self control and I guess that they can not control that part of their genetics. But it all comes back to self control in the end.
Thats what people without addiction issues fail to understand. The person with the addiction cant choose to not think about it, not desire it. Its there every damn day eating at you.
Every single last one of those addicts made the choice, at some point, to cross that line. Nobody did it for them. And, I would dare say, every single one of them had been warned, cautioned, counseled about the consequences. They chose to ignore them.
And, to get clean, every single last one will have to make the choice at some point in the future to put it down and get better.
The rehab/12 step process all place the notion of 'free will' and proper choices as paramount and being the foundation of finding a healthy life. The last thing they would teach is treating the addict as a 'victim'. That it is a disease does not relieve them of responsibility. Accepting responsibility and eliminating denial is crucial to the process. That's why removing all enabling support and hastening the arrival of 'rock bottom' is such an important concept in recovery therapies.
You seem to need alot more education in addiction. I have the real experience and some of your beliefs are way off!! You can have your opinions but they aren't factual.
US is 5% of the world's population but we have 25% of the world's inmates. It was Nixon's war of drugs that saw the incarceration rate go slightly up after being level for years but in 1981 the influx of cocaine (amount of cocaine seized in the 80s went up exponentially) and subsequent crack epidemic has kept our prisons have been bursting at the seems ever since and is why we have these idiotic early release programs to reduce overcrowding.
Keep the non violent offenders out of the system as much as possible so the violent offenders don't get released early. The financial and human cost on our society of this warped incarceration rate is incalculable in my opinion.
Camp332 and Sandberm-Great posts
WhipMeister-I agree with one clarification. In my experience people's free will is often influenced by the disease but from I also know you cannot save someone from themselves. I tried for years to help Phil Alderton (he received three recovery assists instead of the only one I promised him the day I picked him up at Warm Springs 3/30/06) before I finally realized I couldn't help him.
The one realization I had towards the end was as much as I was not liking having to deal with the drama around Phil's stuff it was even less fun for him. I'm still affected by his passing and is why his memorial shirt is taking so long. I know he's gone but doing this shirt is the exclamation point on his passing. Guess there is still some denial in me and possibly some guilt left over even though I did everything and then some to help Phil.
In the early 70s a guy Butch Ditmeir showed up at our killer gravel pit on the south side of Dayton and proceed to rip around the track in shoes. He was fast right up until the point his foot slip off the peg and he literally almost ripped his foot off. I didn't go over to look unlike Randy Richardson who did and returned white as a sheet. Butch's ankle was shattered and his foot was being held on my tendons and skin.
Needless to say Butch was permanently affected by his poor decision and had limited mobility and an external brace hinge thing from that day forward.
Nico 2015 - This is your brain on drugs
Pit Row
Seriously it is obvious you don't know much about alcoholism and drug addiction. Not saying there isn't a personal choice component but this is much more than a self control issue IMHO.
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the total number of opioid pain relievers prescribed in the United States has skyrocketed in the past 25 years (Fig. 1).[4] The number of prescriptions for opioids (like hydrocodone and oxycodone products) have escalated from around 76 million in 1991 to nearly 207 million in 2013, with the United States their biggest consumer globally, accounting for almost 100 percent of the world total for hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin) and 81 percent for oxycodone (e.g., Percocet)
2 of my biggies: I crashed a streetbike at about 80 mph with no shirt on, I shattered two hands and lost massive amounts of flesh that took many months to grow back. I was a 23 then. More recently, in 2010 I disintegrated my L1 vertebrae in an MX accident at 38 years of age. Both times my body was completely and totally hooked on the drugs from 2 months of solid use. As soon as I quit feeding it pain pills it hurt all over. So both times I took exactly 1 pill and one pill only at about 14 hours out to take the edge off the pain and then I suffered thru the rest, which frankly ain't that bad. It's like 2 days after the hardest workout you ever did and then you have the flu also. Yah it sucks but so does being a drug addict.
How pain killers can actually increase chronic pain.
Here is a mindblower: A buddy of mine that has a Percocet prescription is required by Ohio law to be drug tested to make sure he is taking the Percocets and not selling them. I had never heard of drug testing to make sure you were taking drugs.
For me, the last time I was on opiate based painkillers for an injury, I kept a log of how often I was supposed to take a pill and tried to push the intervals farther and farther out. That stuff is scary.
BTW was that your sarcasm in the other thread about the guy's sponsor saying it was okay to take the meds and keep the clean date?
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