So you want to be a drug addict? Go ahead, take that crap until you die a miserable death. Meth-heads, heroin and cocaine addicts, obviously you don't enjoy life...so die. Try not to steal from people who enjoy life, it's not their responsibility to pay for your fun filled demise. If you can't contribute to anyone else because you only care to get high, fuck you...die! Take as much as you can and get really high.
IV drug users are only a small portion of the addicts. The real problem is the morons that abuse prescription drugs. Some doctors would give prescriptions to some people with minor complaints. I've known people who always had a bottle full of strong pain killers that they used for recreation. Some doctors handed them out like candy to patients and that ruined things for everyone else. Now doctors can't give you relief even when they know you need it.
It's never been simple for me to go to a doctor and get pain killers. Toothaches were sometimes terribly painful and dentists could prescribe some temporary relief. They've been reluctant most of my life though, usually telling me to take Tylenol. After all, they don't want me to become addicted! Mostly, if I paid to see a physician, I needed help or I wouldn't go. I'm thankful that I had physicians that cared enough to actually give relief without starting an addiction.
As a young man, I took some drugs for recreation. I've never used a needle, I never liked shots. I tried just about everything you can drink, smoke, snort or just inhale for the almighty buzz. I've been strung out on cocaine and threw away everything I loved. It made me a liar and a cheat. I wish I still had the money I've wasted getting high throughout my life. I've been really stupid and would have abused pain killers if I had been given easy access to them.
Getting old is painful. Not just the inability to do anything you want, but old injuries and abuse of your body takes its toll as well. I've been rough on my body thinking that I was invincible. Now, I feel all those times that I raced motocross, physical fights and trying to impress someone else by showing how "tough" I could be. I've made it difficult for myself because now I'm in constant pain. It never stops, even while sleeping. Nobody to blame but myself.
Near the end of his life, Dad crushed his shoulder in a fall. His doctor would only give him Ibuprofen because he didn't want him to become addicted. Dad lived in misery until they put him in the hospital for his final stay. It pissed me off to watch him suffer when we were fairly sure he wasn't going to live much longer. Addiction certainly wasn't his problem. He didn't want to die either, he wanted to stay on life support for two more years so that his family would get benefits from the VA. Taking care of us was his whole life goal, that was admirable but his body gave out before he was ready to go.
Today, Dad's doctor is now my doctor. I'm puzzled why she believes that only prescribing medicine that is available over the counter is helpful at all. Last year, I was given Tramadol, I was told that it wasn't addictive and it actually worked for me. I took one per day until they were gone and it didn't give me a buzz, it just made my pain tolerable. The doc told me this afternoon that tramadol was addictive and it was now classified the same as hydrocodone. It doesn't give you a buzz or make you less funtional..wtf?? When they prescribe medicine that is available over the counter in lower doses it creates another problem. People will try to get relief and take much more in an effort to feel better. One pill per day beats taking large doses of ibuprofen, acetaminophen or naproxen.
Drug addicts make life difficult for everyone else. When a doctor cannot give you relief from pain, you can thank a drug addict. Got a cold and need some Sudafed? We can't have that because they can make meth out of it. Cannabis? It gets you high....nevermind that it's a plant that relieves many ailments or that nobody has ever overdosed on it. I've never seen a marijuana addict, known some users that weren't happy when they couldn't get some, but they didn't go through withdrawal symptoms. I would rather be around a pot smoker than a pill popping addict any day.
"Getting a buzz" isn't a big deal to me now. It isn't a thrill anymore. Getting older, realizing that intoxication wastes valuable time that could be used to make life more enjoyable is a life lesson that people must experience before they believe it. Don't waste your life, it isn't worth it.
