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I speak of looking for the root causes of addiction and trying to solve those things. But, I mean, I'm a big fat nobody. (Shrug)
by DoreenMichele 3y ago
I speak of looking for the root causes of addiction and trying to solve those things.
But, I mean, I'm a big fat nobody. (Shrug)
- silisili 3y agoOf course you're not. I was just speaking from quickly browsing this thread at time of writing. It seems abundantly clear to me(and probably you) that something is deeply wrong with our society. I've known people who made good money and in large houses just OD and die out of (seemingly) nowhere. Why is everyone so unhappy? Or is it that we've always been, and now we just have the means to act on it?
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI don't personally think drug use is solely about killing emotional pain.
- silisili 3y agoCan you point me to your thoughts? I'm not an expert, or a drug user. But I -feel- like fentanyl has been in the news so much that users have to know the risks, and yet keep on keeping on. So any thoughts as to the why are welcomed.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI don't post links to my health site on HN, but it can be found and you can search HN for pertinent comments by me.
- fragmede 3y agoI don't think you can. Faced with the hopelessness of this unjust world, heroin addicts just want to crawl back into the womb. Meth addicts want to fix the whole world. Neither of those are achievable but getting off heroin is achievable, getting off meth is achievable.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI don't know anything about meth. My impression is heroin is treatment for parasitic infection, something US doctors tend to not look for "because it's a third world problem."
- silisili 3y agoThat's a funny expression. I just recently was talking to my own kid about how, theoretically, the best your life will ever be is in the womb. Free food, warmth, no bills, no worries. Then you're born and thrust into the world and it's all downhill from there...