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Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn to
by collyw 7y ago
Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin.
It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
- gingabriska 7y agoThis is changing tho, now there is Electric Rikshaw, so you don't need stimulants.
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoHeroin is not a stimulant.
- gingabriska 7y agoYes, you are right but the point stays. Now they'll not have aching body from hardwork.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoRickshaw also means motorcycle (usually cng) with a cabin, not just pedal powered.
- collyw 7y agoI would have called that a tuk-tuk.
- gingabriska 7y agoThe place where I am in North India. Those motor ones are called Vikram or Auto, and only manual one is called Riskshaw but now electric one is also called Rickshaw.
- collyw 7y agoI thought that opiates were stimulant at lower doses. Sedative at higher doses.
- paggle 7y agoDo you mean auto rickshaw, bicycle rickshaw, or hand rickshaw?
- collyw 7y agoI assume he meant hand or bicycle rickshaws, but he didn't specify.
- mruts 7y agoI used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the problem lay entirely in the cost and the difficulty of procurement if I traveled or something. I think people would be surprised by the positive effects of heroin legalization on lifestyles and outcomes of addicted people. I’m not saying addiction is good or whatever, but opiates taken properly are safer than Tylenol and without money being an issue I think would help a lot of people. People on heroin look kind of shitty not because the drug is hurting them, but because the cost is hurting them.
- anovikov 7y agoThis sounds awful but i would say somewhat believable because many middle class people do coke regularly and apart from usually, picking a few kilos, they still look OK and keep their careers, families and the stuff. For sure it's not nearly as bad as if they were drinking. My ex is a writer and she was mostly writing on coke, she's as far from being a lost in life drug-addicted person as it gets, honestly i'm a lot closer to there with my alcohol abuse.
- krsdcbl 7y agoThey definitely wouldn't if they were taking coke with the regularity and frequency an alcoholic drinks though.
- AstralStorm 7y agoThe thing is, coke is slightly more dangerous, but quite a lot more physically addictive. It's hard to quit once that holds, though it's relatively easy to keep steady dosage as the euphoric effect is short lived. Unlike cocaine, opiates would hurt productivity in general. There was a time when many people were addicted in China to opium... Wars were and are fought over best growing grounds of many drugs.
- gambiting 7y agoJust as in interesting sidenote - heroine(diamorphine) is actually used legally as pain relief in some countries, even UK uses it for palliative care.
- collyw 7y agoI am aware of that. Apparently most of the damaging effects come from the crap it is cut with when buying street heroin. (Again just stuff I have read, no first hand experience).