Comment on Where's my JUUL?

• 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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      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I know multiple functional addicts. I know way more non functional addicts, but it’s not as black and white as you want it to be.

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      • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They shouldn’t be handed out like candy, as they did in the USA.

        I’m with you on that.

        Still doesn’t make my stuff a lie, especially what I said about myself

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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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      • naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That was not what I meant to do

        I’m not blaming anyone.
        I’m just saying we should focus more on mental health problems, than punishing drug crimes - because drugs aren’t the problem, but how we as a society handle people with problems

        I thought, I made that clear enough with the “trying to function” part

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        People who don’t understand anything should actually just not say anything. Blocked.

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