I just watched it on youtube for the first time, and honestly seeing how both his brother and wife died was really really sad. That's not something I would wish on anyone, I would definitely not wish something like that on my worst enemy. The first scene where they show him smoking the oxy made it look like it would feel really really good, like how sweaty he is and how he just blows the smoke out, that was before they started talking about the deaths in his family though.
One thing that the little documentary doesn't really delve into is that a vast majority of these deaths is from an opiate/benzo combo. I mean honestly I would think it's pretty hard to accidentally OD on something when you know the exact dosage, but when you add benzos to the mix that's a whole other game of russian roulette you're playing.
As an OD survivor myself, I don't think I can stress enough how seriously people should take overdosing and death. Especially with something like heroin where you really can't know for sure how potent it is. I definitely have a different view after going through such a horrible experience like waking up in a hospital. Just to be totally safe, if I do decide to IV in my apartment, I will probably run outside into the hallway or even out into the street for the rush to hit me. Funny thing is I actually think if you jog around a little bit and get your heart rate up and a little adrenaline before the rush hits, it might actually decrease a chance of an OD, but not by a huge amount.
I want to say is that it would probably be a horrible thing to shut down all the pain clinics in florida. I mean just imagine how much crime and illegal stuff will start to happen once the legal loophole is removed.
Some people can definitely quit drugs while others can't, and I really hate how the vast majority of people don't really understand that quitting isn't simply an act of willpower. There's a lot of lifestyle and positive-energy type of factors that go along with it. The quality of your social life, career, sex/love/relationships, and in general what you do in your day after you wake up. I hate to say it but some people are truly hopeless, and you can make a very safe wager that they will remain addicted for a good portion of their adult life, if not forever. Usually the types of people that have barely finished high school, and have never lived out of their parents house in the suburbs and are into their 20s are the ones that I don't think will ever want to quit, cause let's face it, their lives suck to begin with. These people have probably never felt the gratification of actually accomplishing something meaningful, the gratification of controlling your own destiny, the gratification of feeling self-reliant and independent. Then one of these people ends up getting a felony record and they can't even get a decent job because of it and they don't even have a chance to go forward anymore. Of course you also definitely have people who live efficient lifestyles with everything positive going for them who still decide to do it for the sake of shear pleasure. These people I think have a much better chance of quitting though, should they decide to do so. I can definitely speak for myself and say that I have a lot of things in my life that are more important than heroin to me, but I can totally understand how for someone there would be nothing better in their lives, sadly this is the world we live in. The dregs of American society are vast, from the obese to the social outcasts. There are definitely people who still choose to use opiates and other addictive drugs even with a promising life, but you have to admit that they're not as common. My point from all of this is that people are definitely going to use drugs if they want to, from the wigger who lives in his parents basement in a cul de sac, to the dude whose a college graduate and wears a tie to work.
Being a harm reduction oriented website, I would think that this is a philosophy that is prevalent here. It is in fact possible to do heroin without overdosing, contracting a pathogenic disease, or even having much noticeable track marks. Obviously you have to take some really adamant stances to be safe. If I have zero tolerance, I tend to take a small bump-sized shot in the beginning just to feel a small rush, and then I'll probably sniff little bits once every hour or so to maintain my buzz. Your tolerance definitely doesn't just go up after one shot, and you can definitely knock yourself out by redosing and compounding the effect. The worst I think is not knowing how much your tolerance goes down after just two weeks. I found this out the hard way, since with the help of suboxone at the time I had functionally reduced my usage to once a week, generally on fridays. On the third week of reducing my usage to only once a week, I woke up in a hospital from IVing just one bag. I am definitely glad I got past that and thankful for my life. This has kept me very wary of how much to use in the future should I choose to do so, and in a way I am sort of thankful for the experience since maybe this experience might actually save my life in the future from the knowledge I've gained from it.
I am going to be moving back out to the big city within the next 2 weeks and I'm gonna have a nice source of income again, the last thing I would ever want to happen to me is to be found dead in my apartment like john belushi or chris farley.