Geeto67 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I'm pretty sure most people leave out the "eats my flesh" part before they take it, or they think "how much flesh could one time possibly eat". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC K9 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I've never once thought, "Man, I bet it'd be AWESOME to get high on something that eats my flesh!" Ditto. Obviously it feels good being high, but I am baffled by the amount of people that don't stop and think...hmmm, here are the benefits of using this drug...and here are all the horrible fkng things that are going to happen to me from using this drug. Maybe I should find a different way to enjoy life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Alex- Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Ditto. Obviously it feels good being high, but I am baffled by the amount of people that don't stop and think...hmmm, here are the benefits of using this drug...and here are all the horrible fkng things that are going to happen to me from using this drug. Maybe I should find a different way to enjoy life. This is what I will never be able to wrap my head around. There are so many intelligent, well off, decent human beings who seem to decide that snorting pills, cocaine, etc is a good time. That wears off, so they start using heroine, that wears off and it's the next fix, and they can never go back. Have a few beers, smoke a little weed if you can still keep your shit together, and enjoy life. I've seen the snowball effect many times in my area, usually ending with my dad's funeral home. It breaks my heart when there are children involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKilbourne Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 This is what I will never be able to wrap my head around. There are so many intelligent, well off, decent human beings who seem to decide that snorting pills, cocaine, etc is a good time. That wears off, so they start using heroine, that wears off and it's the next fix, and they can never go back. Have a few beers, smoke a little weed if you can still keep your shit together, and enjoy life. I've seen the snowball effect many times in my area, usually ending with my dad's funeral home. It breaks my heart when there are children involved. It's a sad/vicious cycle. I've seen the pill shit in person and shook my head and walked away. People ask why this happens and how could someone think this is ok? Well, the problem lies in that they people doing the drugs don't think about it rationally. Most people are too stubborn and think that "It won't happen to me". "Just because thousands of others get addicted after one time use, doesn't mean that I will". Having had been in my ortho's office a "few" times in the past couple of years, I have noticed and have been notified of changes in some of the laws in scrip writing. They are cracking down on it somewhat, but it can still be a huge issue. Way too much money to be made by the pharma companies to outlaw pills. Sad, really, when you think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I bet making this substance illegal, forcing it into the black market, massively inflating it's value, while creating criminals out of the substance-addiction prone, and providing an avenue for gangbangers and other lowlifes to get rich is the best course of action. I honestly hope someday we see substance prohibition completely done away with. No, I'm not FOR drugs, I'm against this madness we currently have in place. Yes, being a heroin-addict is not a great way to live. However if heroin/morphine, whatever, was readily available and market controlled (read: cheap), at least the abusers would be able to hold down jobs(I may work with 3 alcoholics), not be as exposed to disease, and the black market would be severely diminished. Oh and the taxpayer would save literally hundreds of billions of dollars or more. Though I guess we'd have to allow people to make poor life choices so let's just have a massive clusterfuck instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustlestiltskin Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 I know I could write a great HBO series based on the years I lived in Portsmouth. You haven't lived until you are trying to take a piss in a townie bar bathroom and a Royal Rumble breaks out over who has dibs on the next pool game. This is in every countryside bar setting, not just in Portsmouth. Mess with somebody's quarters on a pool table and see how fast shit can get real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Nice Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Way too much money to be made by the pharma companies to outlaw pills. Therein lies problem. This is in every countryside bar setting, not just in Portsmouth. Mess with somebody's quarters on a pool table and see how fast shit can get real. Truth. Seen it happen on the south end and in Circleville back in the day. Glad I'm out of that lifestyle now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everlight44 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 I see lots of drug users at OSU and they are a breeding ground for awful infections. One patient I had shared needles with his girlfriend "until she got hepatitis C", but he still managed to get a fungal infection that manifested in his eye. His VFend (antifungal) treatment was 6 months, and at cost that drug is around $1000 / month for generic. I think he lost his eye anyways. Another one ran out of peripheral vein access so he was using veins in his neck to inject heroin, and when he got an abscess on his neck he tried to drain it with a box cutter. Sad to see people destroy themselves so completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigOxley Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 I see lots of drug users at OSU and they are a breeding ground for awful infections. One patient I had shared needles with his girlfriend "until she got hepatitis C", but he still managed to get a fungal infection that manifested in his eye. His VFend (antifungal) treatment was 6 months, and at cost that drug is around $1000 / month for generic. I think he lost his eye anyways. Another one ran out of peripheral vein access so he was using veins in his neck to inject heroin, and when he got an abscess on his neck he tried to drain it with a box cutter. Sad to see people destroy themselves so completely. Heard a story of a prostitute in Springfield with 4 broken-off needles in her neck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC K9 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 I watched Requiem for a Dream years and years ago when I was a teenager. Not that I had ever thought about doing hard drugs before that point, but that movie pretty much solidified my stance, ha ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 That is a crazy fucking movie! It was hard to watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC K9 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 That is a crazy fucking movie! It was hard to watch I agree. Movie freaks me out, and saddens me that it represents reality for a lot of people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubar231 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 (edited) Ive seen people OD on heroin and have to call 911 and get emergency crews with Narcan out asap, its no fun... Not really going to voice my opinion on this, Have many friends hooked on this shit, between me and my best friend we know 10+ people that have OD'd and died, the real sad part? Nearly every insurance plan (Even free Obamacare/Medicare/Medicaid ones) offer FREE SUBOXONE TREATMENTS (Inpatient and Outpatient) to get people off this shit, yet they'd rather steal, rob, degrade theres and there friends/familys lives, then to try and get clean... Its just sad... Edited January 10, 2015 by Fubar231 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radio Flyer1647545514 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 I watched Requiem for a Dream years and years ago when I was a teenager. Not that I had ever thought about doing hard drugs before that point, but that movie pretty much solidified my stance, ha ha. Train Walking is a pretty good one to watch too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubar231 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Krokodil is nutty. Seen a vice doc on that while ago. I will never understand what drives people to want to do hard drugs. Yeah that shit is absolutely NUTS! Saw this when it came out, but DAMN! How can anyone think that shits a good idea? F*ckin gasoline, pills, and all types of shit injected into your bloodstream? Blows my damn mind... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Posted January 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 I bet making this substance illegal, forcing it into the black market, massively inflating it's value, while creating criminals out of the substance-addiction prone, and providing an avenue for gangbangers and other lowlifes to get rich is the best course of action. I honestly hope someday we see substance prohibition completely done away with. No, I'm not FOR drugs, I'm against this madness we currently have in place. Yes, being a heroin-addict is not a great way to live. However if heroin/morphine, whatever, was readily available and market controlled (read: cheap), at least the abusers would be able to hold down jobs(I may work with 3 alcoholics), not be as exposed to disease, and the black market would be severely diminished. Oh and the taxpayer would save literally hundreds of billions of dollars or more. Though I guess we'd have to allow people to make poor life choices so let's just have a massive clusterfuck instead. I honestly dont buy any of that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 I honestly dont buy any of that Then surely what hasn't worked at all for the last 40 years straight and trillion dollars spent will eventually pan out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Nice Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 ...yet they'd rather steal, rob, degrade theres and there friends/familys lives, then to try and get clean... I believe that's the very defintion of "addiction". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubar231 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I believe that's the very defintion of "addiction". But you can get FREE TREATMENT... FREE... FREE... Just blows my mind how people would rather live like that then get clean, when its OFFERED TO YOU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstmg8 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Watching it for the first time right now on Nat Geo, wow, weird seeing Columbus on drugs inc. Can we talk about the extreme sawed off 22 that the hilltop crack head is carrying? What is that thing like to fire? Bet he doesn't know either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acklac7 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Watching it for the first time right now on Nat Geo, wow, weird seeing Columbus on drugs inc. Can we talk about the extreme sawed off 22 that the hilltop crack head is carrying? What is that thing like to fire? Bet he doesn't know either. Re-airs @ 1:00am, going to catch that episode. Had a really good friend from high school die 3 weeks ago. We lost touch but I guess he got really bad into pills, then you know the rest. Actually went clean for a number of years (guess he was a huge figure @ AA meetings etc), then relapsed bad, within a week dead . If you weren't aware Heroin was a huge issue in Columbus you must be living under a fucking rock. Shit is everywhere, including all of our more affluent Suburbs. Being a somewhat "wild child" in my teens (90's) I was on the "in's" with the drug crowd; you couldn't find Heroin, period - Not that I tried, but I was usually on the in with what was available and what was not. Heroin was absolutely unheard of back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstmg8 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 I don't think you have to live under a rock. I'm not naive enough to think it isn't around, of course you see shit on the news. Even so, I never see/ hear of it in my everyday life, then again I don't frequent hilltop looking for hookers and blow. I suppose I don't tend to surround myself with the type of person most likely to run these circles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acklac7 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 had a friend die on 12/19 because of that shit. Ryan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acklac7 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 I suppose I don't tend to surround myself with the type of person most likely to run these circles. The fucked up thing is I don't either (anymore), and i've lived in good/excellent neighborhoods my entire life (Grew up richer then fuck in UA), and for nearly all of my adult life ran with people that were on the up and up. That said even I, living in the suburbs, have become aware of the problem Upper Arlington and Hilliard are having with kids getting hooked on this shit in fucking High School. Again, back in the 90's @ UA Heroin was absolutely unheard of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstmg8 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Yeah, these things definitely explode into peoples lives whom didn't expect it. I've dealt closely with alcoholism, and it can be tough to understand the addicts side. I'm sure drugs like this are much worse. I grew up in Athens, and its becoming quite the problem there as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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