04/20 - Unusually Relaxed, Mellow, and Happy Friday!

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Devil_Dawg said:
I started at 3am, and plan on being blazed all day. Wife is feeling better, spring is in the air, birds are singing. Life is good.
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Well you're wife ought to enjoy it. The only thing I ever found pot good for was nausea. Used to make a lot of fun when I lived in TX with x employed by government and son too in military. I had a bunch of legal drugs I took back then and occasionally taking those drugs made me ill. I didn't have time grab the pot and run outside by the time I found everything. So they'd chase me to the bedroom so they didn't get a contact high and then have to take a drug test. Thing was, two hits and I was done until the next nausea came which didn't happen that often just enough to be annoying.
 
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lolkatB said:
Wel I think I agree on the prison thing. I have heard people say 'why should druggies get their treatments free, I have to pay for my healthcare. Well dude you're paying more for them to be in prison. I got into a huge argument with my BIL about it actually. just after I'd moved here.

Part of the problem is that treating someone for addiction as you've said involves far more than simply making them stop taking something. If that were the case, it'd be easy. But if you live in an area with high and easy drug availability, and are known to be a user, then you are targetted by them again as soon as you get back. Studies have shown the most successful way to get off and stay off drugs is to get away. But that's hugely expensive as an intervention. People aren't prepared to accept that.

The treatment that gives the best results from a social point of view; reduction in crime, reduction in harm, ability to hold down a job, increase in literacy and interaction with education is long-term methadone treatment. Yeah, drug users think methadone is like cooking chocolate in comparison to heroin which is more 70% cocoa dark goodness, but long-term studies show it's damned effective.

Politically, it's the poor relation. Which leaves health care providers giving poorer care than they know they can to people who aren't really interested in the treatment being offered. More jail, more $$$, more deaths, and the politicians don't care.
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From 17-20ish I had a really bad pill problem (xanax and roxicodone) so I know this all too well. Im happy to say I have been drug free for about 6 years now minus the occasional toke. I had to ghost all of my friends, erase all of their contacts from my phone and never speak to any of them ever again to stop. Once I did that, for me personally, it was easier to stop taking the drugs, I actually quit them all cold turkey when I got to the root of the problem, which was my self worth. I didnt like myself, my situation or where I was at in life so I was taking a lot of drugs to numb myself from the pain I felt. I had to retrain my brain to love myself. I stopped listening to my depressing music, I started watching motiviational videos, listening to upbeat and happy music. I replaced bad habits with good ones, started going to the gym everyday, doing yoga, starting everyday with a list of everything I am grateful for. Religion and spirituality also helped me a lot as well. Then when I was in a better place I joined the military and that really reinforced and instilled good habits into me. Its a really hard road but it is possible to overcome. I do it everyday and although everyones situation is different it is possible. I wish and pray for everyone who is suffering from a drug problem to get the peace they deserve because its hell on earth when you are going through it.
 
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Qualtrics bugging out for anyone else? I just cleared my cache yesterday T.T
 
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Knowing it's just me helps, thank you <3 I'll see what i can do, I regularly clear stuff with qualtrics because it doesn't love me
 
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