Sad reality in the United States is that they don’t care. So I did but I know what to do best I took the last 1 mg of lorazepam and I grab the six pack for the ride home. Unfortunately in the United States we must take matters into our own hands when it comes to our medication there’s no reliance upon doctors for any help and that’s why things like drug dealing in the dark web are so big because the people cannot get what they need in order to function and survive properly and it’s pathetic.
Yes. The United States reaction to drug addiction/dependence, specifically in regards to how it is treated in a medical setting, is based 70% on subjective morality/religion and shit, 15% politics and 15% direct medical science. I believe we have a great medical service here in the United States. There are many specialties at which we would be considered of the very best. However, our response to things like addiction have changed very little in literally over 100 years.
You are completely on your own in many cases. It's not a friendly world out there right now for an addict. The drugs are cheap and plentiful, but as we all know, this does absolutely zero actual favors to an active addict. Right now we have people out there spending the same couple hundred dollars a day on Fentanyl that they would have on Heroin, but they are in fact experiencing a dependency several times greater than Heroin ever would have done.
I urge people that now is a great time to try to get your addiction under control. I don't say this from a point of view of morality or anything like that. I'm speaking to the fact that services, not to mention public opinion, are going to be getting more and more austere as these next months go by. Treatment for addiction is a luxury of a luxurious society. The Western World is getting poorer by the minute. I see sober houses close, rehabs close, detoxes that used to be 48-72 hour wait now have a TBD-style waiting list. The writing is on the wall. It is best to seek help as soon as possible. This will enable you to take advantage of what help is still available to you while you can.
The Methadone clinic here in Burlington was doing same-day admissions for years. I've seen them go from same-day to one week, to two weeks, to now, you call and they call you back when they have an appointment available, which I've heard can take a month. I believe this is likely just the beginning. I imagine that if a shortage of Methadone were to occur, the start would be closing off treatment to new patients, then throttling the dosages of current patients and what might come after that, I do not know.
We've seen Ukraine, an entire country, go from a Methadone-prescribing nation to one in which Methadone itself was completely illegal overnight during the first Crimean operation in 2014. Here in the United States, you would think it totally impossible, that society would implode, people would go insane. In reality, it just happened. Nobody really gave a shit and who really knows what happened to all of those Methadone patients who were suddenly cut off? I don't. That is the cold reality of the world.
