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However, I'm also a "mind over matter" thinker, and believe that a strong will and character can get you through more than you think is possible.
I have little sympathy for those that choose to take a substance and allow it to destroy their lives, it's not like there aren't warnings all over the place telling you how bad things can get...
Like I said, the one time where I had to take an opiate on a repeated dosage, I realized I was almost getting dependent on it and taking too much of it I stopped. Maybe because I knew how things could have progressed, or the fact that I don't like depending on anything is what made me stop before I got hooked. Can I understand how it happens? Yes, however I don't see how people can just continue without giving a damn about themselves. And I know it isn't an over night task, but it can obviously be done... The only thing stopping addicts is the addict themselves, and I have full respect for those that can get themselves straight.
I'm no longer in a medical trade, I realized I just don't care enough to continue. I saw way too many fakes, too many people trying to abuse the system, and too many people that don't even bother trying to help themselves first...
I'm the kind of guy to risk his own arse when someone actually needs the help and I really, really enjoyed that part of the job... I just have little appreciation for those that don't care enough about themselves. Maybe I wasn't soft enough to look after people.
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It is my understanding the people who are hooked on hydrocodone or oxycodone but can't get a script heroin addresses the opiate issue. In those cases the people shooting up for the first time are already hooked on opiates but come on....needles? Seriously?
Why isn't there an investigation underway looking at how this opiate problem got to be so huge? There needs to be people and companies put on trial over this. This is a problem that didn't happen by itself or in a vacuum. I used to say everybody you talk to that was alive in the 70s knows someone that had a dirt bike. Now forty years later almost everybody you talk to knows someone that has struggled with pain pill addiction.
Izzi just don't wanna stop.
He's into the party, the laughs, the bitches, the "f@@@ the man" scene.
Like most in that position,
He want's to live that way, and he's not gonna let anyone stop him from doing what he wants to do.
Quitting is just a bad case of the flu, been there.
Blaming all that crap on anybody, or anything but yourself, is for self centered fools and bleeding hearts that buy the sell.
Plus, I dont think I've ever talked to an addict who did not have REAL pain issues. Now, about 95% of this pain leaves you once you stop taking whatever it is, but that idea sounds impossible when you're in it.
..Do you guys remember when Rush Limbaugh was addicted? I think he was buying 1000 pills, per month, if not more, and $70,000..unlimited funds tend to do that. The guy destroyed his hearing from abusing pills.
Plus, the pills are hard to get. If you get enough to work, its basically illegal, so there goes that barrier. Its also easier to get, cheaper than multiple doctors, and if your careful, less chance of getting caught vs buying illegal pills.
Its got a dirty reputation, but in reality is just a stronger version of whats "legal". Snorted first, usually, then tats stops working...on up to finally injecting it.
Thats hats the real key. I'm sure he would agree the physical side of the addiction goes away "quickly". The emotional side is whats key.
No one really wants to deal with that, and its still treated from what worked in 1935.
Also, if so much free help is available, why is there list upon list of institutions willing to help for $35,000 month?
I'm not here to defend Izzi. I dont know him.
When you deal with your own addicted loved one, spouse, best friend, or whatever, this is the how and why.
My personal thought was maybe the pain registers differently? You could chop my moms arm off, and she'd be in mild discomfort. A filling in my tooth is a cause for alarm.
What is defending to you is understanding to others. There is a difference.
It never works as well as it did the first time, so a high just usually just so-so. You take more, but it never really quite works like the first time...Meanwhile, the brain just keeps saying "one more time" "HIS is it" and "i'm done after this"
Its a horrible life. Never enough. You hope to get through the next 2-3 hours, THEN you'll stop. This dose is the last one....I PROMISE!! No weekends off, 24-7.
As far as a real HARDCORE addict wanting to get high, I've never talked to one who would not sell his/her soul to just get to "normal" and be able to stay there. Thats where the suboxones, and some of the other replacement therapies come in to play. A lot of the political a-holes know best and make this extremely tough to get..way harder to obtain than heroin, which is pretty backwards.
You would not think the journey from there to "normal" would be so difficult, but look at the number of companies making millions trying to get people through that next 30 days without.
A. It's clearly a joke. If you find it in poor taste then oh well. He's not hurting anyone. I'm sure you've posted something stupid before.
B. On the flip side horrible joke to make for his daughter to see.
C. I doubt he gives one f$@k about a pro ride.
I am surprised shit like this stays up on the forum. I think everybody has rung in on Izzi's personal issues here. Wow.
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thefactorypilot-Appreciate the testing information.
Unless you are going to help, shut up. Addiction has nothing to do with intelligence, check out Greg Giraldo's life.
My Son has deep depression issues, not his fault. He isn't an addict, I don't know how.
You are in your shoes, he is in his. It's STFU time. Moto or gossip board?
I have lost 4 friends from drug addiction.
If everything is true, I hope Nico can get clean before its too late.
Nico's career really started to come off the rails when his bike blew up on the face of a triple and he got really busted up. Not trying to defend Nico, but it's not like he had the best luck in the world. The dude needs to get his shit together though. All that regret he probably has from racing is only going to compound if he steals, cheats, and pisses his 20's away.
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