@ runctions
Your post sounds like a good~bye? I hope your not leaving the thread? It would be very quite without you on here, we would all miss you! Plus i hate good~byes & i already had plenty of good~byes in the clinic this week. Hopefully there will be a V12 of this thread, so we will all be hoping to see you on there! So see you then mate, yeah?
I am really touched by your response. We are peoples of the same generation and probably have similar stories modified by living in different parts of this globe. Though I am on sub, and not actively using, I will be a heroin addict till the day of my death and those, actively using, on substitution therapy, or in abstinece recovery our my brethern. Its like, whatever the circumtances, whatever our culture, or nationality, as opiate addicts we are like a nation or ethnic group that trancendens race or color. I believe this to be biologically based, and a trait that unites us. We live in the dark ages of drug prohibition. Clearly, if one was to survey this thread alone, we are not bad people. One may consider us sick. In the USA, the persuit of happiness is a sacred right, enumerated in our Decleration of Independence. Thats one reason why we fought a war of independence against George III. If not happiness then peace or contendendence- there is always going to be people that don't feel right, feal depressed, anxious, but their is always gonna be people that are not happy, or have the very least right to a descent quality of life requiring opiates. For many of us heroin, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and many of the more heavy duty phenathrene opiates are gonna be the simple and cheap cure. We all know that people with this kind of trait function better when treated with this class of drugs. So until big pharma comes along with something better, a beta-endorphine enzyme inhibitor (esterase or whatever) that that inhibits the breakdown of endorphines: SSRIs, NE agonist componuds, mixed SSRI and NE reuptake inhibitor agents, ect, ect, ect...is really not gonna work at improving our quality of life (I think many will agree with me having tried these treatment modalities- though everyone is different). Legal Diamorphine, morphine, hydromorphine, oxy, 0xymorph, ect... Rx, like the Pragmatic Swiss have enjoyed great
results with- our people, our race, if you will suffer unecessarily. You see, its like smoking (ex- smokers in my case)- it gives them this perverse pleasure that they are on the right side of health- that they are somehow strong and above these weak willed smokers. We need a whole paradigm shift. Its just that
people are so narrow minded and abstinenece makes them feel so superior morally, whatever the compund, if I can't (or have overcome it, so can you...anything else your a weak willed scum). I got back on sub, though not the ideal, it did have marked antipressant effects, after a dark spell of depression.
The bottom line is governments, broke as they are, shouldn't protect us against ourselves, but against others that would do us harm. If you can adopt this philosophy, then prohibition becomes illuninated for what it is- an oppressive regieme, and the victims of our subjects of CRIMES GAINST HUMAINITY.
Anyway, I was watching while writting this Nat Geo Channel- they went into the whole drug interdiction effort in afghanistan- people trying to smuggle heroin into New York Via Nigerian couriers- all for the Midwest (Chicago, Detroit, ect... market). They also showed afghans waking poppies, and agents in Iran or apghanistan- finding #3 hidden in the thread of the rug- they showed one uptight official- but he admitted that maybe 10-15% @ most is interdicted.
Anyaway, I hope you have good luck and peace. No one should be an arbiter of anyone elses lifestyle if it isn't harming others. This is the conrnerstone of our argument, we are sick and our quality of life would improve if the authorities leave us be. Drug overdoses would decrease, ect...
Please forgive me- I'm a dense seppo, but what is the meaning of "V12" Runctions?
It may take generations but we will prevail, and hopefully in most of the "progressive/civilazized" countries can, as lame as this sounds, be free of paralyzing depression and be able to smoke our drug of choice legally in an age of enlightement, sayind "free at last. God almighty, free at last"
Please remember, we are all victims supporting a world wide prison- narco-industrial complex.
In Switzerland they legalized heroin Rx, and rather than having their society colapse- they have only 3% unemployement and people thriving on the program- investors are actually buying Swiss Franks alongside gold as a safe haven (might have posted this before)- point is their heroin Rx program is reaping benefits, unless I get info to the contrary- don't know the latest, might resurrect my "needle park Zurich thread" to get more info.
But anyway Runcts, i'll be around...I value the friendship I've made with like minded individuals like you, Charlie, Brimz, Kat, and all the other regulars and irregulars on your side of the pound. We need to keep the lines of communication open, and our movement needs to grow...Globally. As opiate addicts, we are humans, from my perspective with a trait. A trait that allows state sanctioned persecution in most of the world...one that requires global solidarity...this is an issue of fundemantal human rights being violated. So we must keep the dialogue open.
In Aus and NZ, they see heroin addicts as being degenerates as opposed to methamphetamine tweakers that are somehow seen as being chic.8(
I have know ill will against tweakers on similar principles but inspite of their good harm reduction programs in major cities, this view continues on BL- which was shocking to me having experienced both drugs in debth. Anyway, we have to educate them to overcome their silly predjucies.
Anyway, Runctions, I hope you and your boyfriend have good luck- you our one of the best, most gentle souls (and are not afraid to speak out when info is not reliable), on this thread, proof that us dopfiends aren't degenerates- we have jobs, aren't enemy of the people, have empathy- just have an aberation of the brain that needs remedying.
I'll pop by every now and then. Tommyboy stated a sticky for transatlantic communication that I saw as a good thing. Their are wankers my side of the pond but international solidarity is a must. One hundred years latter we are subject to the chains of discrimination. We all share one thing in that, to paraprase MLK we are "exiles in our oun lands." Now is the time to rise from the quicksand of injustice and ignorance to the solid rock of compasion and justice. MLK would say that the luxury of gradualism is a luxuary his people did not have but in our movement gradualism is probaly the best tactic- gradually changing the prevailing attitude internationally.
But we must all perservere in this goal- that the evils of prohibitions, or that seeing addiction as a criminal and moral deficiency be replaced by common sence of ending prohibition and supporting harm reduction.
oh yea...v.12 (version 12) i'm a dense yank...just realized this thread(v.11) is comming to an end.