Comment on Where's my JUUL?

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They just say that because they want to keep more heroin for themselves.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Heroin is not even considered a gateway drug, it’s that safe.

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• black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Poverty and trauma makes peoples faces gaunt and haggardly and destroys lives. Heroin addiction is one of many other potential symptoms of poverty and trauma. Plenty of people use opiates and opioids medically and recreationally to no ill effects. The drugs are a comfortable scapegoat for people who care more about maintaining their personal status quo than the ability for other people to survive.

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  • rawn@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It may not be possible to avoid trauma, but it’s absolutely possible to teach people about safe and less safe coping mechanisms for their trauma. This one is decidedly less safe.

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    • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, drugs aren’t a good coping mechanism for trauma in general?

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Plenty of people use opiates and opioids medically and recreationally to no ill effects.

    A dangerous lie that is insane to have not been downvoted dozens of times minimum.

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    • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nope, it’s true

      I’m not on the needle and enjoyed quite some opiates during my experimental late-youth

      The rule for every recreational drug is to not use it, when you “need” it, but only in festive occasions or periods.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I know several people whose lives were entirely wrecked by opiates. This is a dangerous fucking pack of lies that should get you banned for spreading. This is several times worse than spreading anti vaxx rhetoric.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You left an edit that basically blamed people for their mental problems, in service of defending the most dangerously addictive drug maybe to ever exist.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If this were such a dangerous lie, opioids wouldn’t be prescribed and used medically without ill effects.

      What do you think the likelihood is of developing problematic use following a course of opioids?

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  • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Found the delusional junkie!

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    • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t use, personally, though I have had opiates for acute pain as most people have. I’m just not a judgemental asshole. Opium isn’t the problem, fent is.

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      • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I would go as far as to say no single chemical is “the problem” and that entire perspective is brutally reductionist. There are so many problems with the way we’re living, pinning the blame on the existence of temporary escape is so backwards and cruel it’s hard for me to imagine what makes someone think that way. “TrickDacy” is really showing their whole ass here

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  • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just wanted to say this was an insightful and empathetic post from someone who clearly has a lot more direct experience than the guy going off about heroin itself chemically ruining lives

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There’s nothing empathetic about telling strangers heroin isn’t all that harmful

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      • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        In the most literal sense possible, there’s nothing empathetic about being unable to understand or relate to experiences distant from your own. I’m not going to join in trying to share insight into the interplay of poverty, escapism, and addiction when you so clearly don’t give a shit. Happy new year man.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s an overly kind description of it. I’ve never known anyone to use more than a little opiates without completely obliterating their life, or coming extremely close to doing so.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I did mention “destroys lives.”

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