I guess I'll never understand or get why someone would stick a needle in their arm

I wish our government would stop the herion epidemic in our country.

Drug use is not an epidemic you can stop with guns and police and jails. You have to treat the cause not the symptoms.

I donno Moe...

A few well placed atomic bombs could theoretically eliminate all of humanities problems....drug addiction, spousal abuse, famine, gas prices, dyslexia, The View....It could all be handled in a matter of minutes if we weren't so lazy.

:)

I dropped some atomic bomb once.

That's three days of my life I'll never remember.

The prescription drug use in this country is a bigger concern than heroin. Lock up your meds....don't leave em out. Children can get prescription drugs much easier than heroin.

... there's no quick fix thats for sure.

It's just a shame things are so insane

We can lay the blame on many things but ultimately its up to SELF.

yep sure do...it's a rough world. Too much violence and destruction out there. My mom still says she wishes it was still 1960. lol. We can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one gets filled first. :)

The government is the biggest drug pusher of all, they just made it legal.

For me, getting high was what made living tolerable. IDK

yup...people do drugs to hide from reality! I actually still have a sticker that says..."reality is just a crutch for people with can't deal with drugs!"

A decade ago I had a totally different mindset than I do now and did copious amounts of drugs. Never did heroin or crack, but at least tried everything else. My ex and some family members sold coke so there was usually a steady supply that I didn't have to pay for!

The drugs make you severely depressed when they wear off and so you need more to feel better. It's hard to break the cycle even if you want to! I finally did and then started slowly replacing the drugs with more healthy and fulfilling addictions like college, dogs, horses, working out, etc!

You have to stop the self destructive state of mind to stop drug habits and sorry, but our government is the last resource I'd employ to help heal people!! gov't is much of the reason people think they need drugs!

Coke, pot, and everything illegal comes into this country by the ton... and there are a WHOLE lot of tons coming in. Along with the illegal drugs are the illegals. If we stopped the drugs by having proper border security we would be stopping the illegal human trafficking as well and that is a problem that has become politically incorrect to address.

The Democrats want potential voters.
The Republicans want cheap labor.

Over a trillion dollars get spent on frisking your private parts at the airport and a hundred atomic bombs could be smuggled across the border in a day?

Your "representative type government" does not represent your best interests.

If illegal drugs were too expensive to buy, few would buy them.

word!

I agree with you, OP.
It's no different when you enter a dr's office. According to them, an antidepressant is needed for every single problem. How can they want to supply us with as many pills that make us seem dependent on them, yet disagree with doing STREET drugs? Aren't they doing a similar thing, with medication? And if you don't accept the antidepressants, god help you, cos they then get a firing squad, almost.

Well,

as a former drug addict for 25+ years, I can tell you, theres not just one reason people do drugs,

There really isnt one reason, why people use drugs.

Mowtown, you can treat the cause, and it not help a bit.
O.P., you can lock people up, you can make it illegal, and it not help a bit.

Or both of those things can work.



Im not trying to contradict myself...but heres the real deal.



Its different for everyone.

Some, can be cured in rehab,

Some can think that they cured, and for no good reason, run back to their dealers house.

Some can be scared straight, with jail, and a criminal record, and some dont give a phuck about jail, or a record, and the second they get out of jail, they run to their dealer.

Some can encounter health problems, that will make them quit, while some dont give a damn about abusing their bodies, because when your high, you dont trip on crap like that. Your numb! And it feels good!



Why did I used to get high?



It had nothing to do with my upbringing, it had nothing to do with anything tragic in my life. It had nothing to do, with anything, I just simply, liked the way I felt when I was high, and enjoyed the act, and the taste, and the feeling of SMOKING meth, and cigarettes.
END OF STORY!



Why, and how did I quit?



It had nothing to do with anything. I had not been saved yet, so it wasent a God thing, it wasent because I couldnt affored drugs, I had a good paying, full time job, (I was a functioning drug addict. NO ONE would have even known, or knew, when I was high.....I wasnt all twitchy, and tweeker looking). It wasent because of my jail, or arrest, record. Its bad, and its not gonna get any better, unless I come into a buttload of money!

Just one day, I woke up, and said, "I quit, im done, its over, thats it!!". And I did, cold turkey!

Remember now, I didnt have negative experiences due to my drug use. I didnt look bad, or have bad health, not anything, negative. Meth was my lover, my best friend, my hobby, and like some people pay to golf, or shoot, or dine, or whatever, I payed to smoked meth. It was my luxury, so to speak. So just waking up one day, after 25+ years, and saying "Im done", is not commonly done. Not to mention I quit by myself, no rehab, no programs, nobody, just me, my dog, and my Mingle family!(Who ultimately became my inspiration to stay clean)Im not gonna retell this story, you all already know it.

So there is no one reason that people start, or one reason, that people quit, im just glad "I" did, and tell my story everywhere, to give other people hope, and inspiration, because if I CAN, THEY CAN QUIT. ITS NEVER TOO LATE!

I also quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey.

It would be nice, to have one simple explanation, for drug use, and addiction, because then we would know how to fight it, but unfortunately, there isnt.

Soft children are really ruining our drugs.

But no, nobody's died in 2012 yet.

Give it until the end of February.

I think we should decriminalize it......why jail or place in prison those needing help.......why make it unsafe for those to do what they are going to do despite laws or the wishes of others.......

I am in Los Angeles County. I want needles to be FREE OR CHEAP so people are not sharing and softer drugs such as weed to be legal and for the government to tax the F out of it like cigarettes and alcohol which I consider more harmful and use that money for other drug programs. Ya, heroine in is scary but have you meet a tweaker on Adderal which IS legal and will fry your brain horribly from what my doctor tells me. My one adopted sister and brother did Adderal. My older sister did heroine. The heroine addict was easier to live with. Honestly. They are all sober now. Except the one younger sister is a pot head which I really would not care except my niece is involved. She does not get high in her presence but I am old fashioned and think parents need to be sober.

exactly!

90% of people or some high number like that are dual diagnosis. Meaning a mental illness and drug addiction. They are battling depression, anxiety, bipolar, etc. and self medicating.

If you doubt people self medicate, go to CVS on a Sunday when booze is on sale and watch the people who buy enough boozer for 12 parties EVERY WEEK.

I often talk about this, I was good friends with a drug king pin who only got stoned on premium weed. He didn't even drink. He thought alcohol was horrible for you. Shrewd business man.

His line was "Drugs are for the weak and stupid and I don't mind exploiting them. Druggies are a pawn in this game. Don't be a pawn". Kept me from ever even TRYING drugs.