In discussing this issue with the EMT and paramedic students I teach, absolutely this. "If your life had descended to a point where you had to go to the bathro

In discussing this issue with the EMT and paramedic students I teach, absolutely this. "If your life had descended to a point where you had to go to the bathroom in an alley and use scrap paper to wipe, or were eating your lunch that you fetched from a trash can on the street in the rain, there's a good chance you would use opioids to numb the pain of that existence, too." And once you start using some of the most powerfully addictive substances we know, it's not about "flaws of character" or anything else, now you've messed with brain chemistry, in some cases, permanently.