Verycurious - heroin's a bit like magic, no place for dabblers. Once you're into it, you're into it. People do get back but rarely all the way. See above.
Blondin, think "only 4% ever come off methadone" is one of those fake statistics used to support a 'no more scripts' treatment agenda. It's standard technique for abstentionist opiophobes, they've being doing it for years. The latest e.g. relates to the ''success'' of rehabs -" if you take an eight day period, 19.7 months after discharge, don't count weekends and women whose name starts with K, statistics prove conclusively etc." Tragedy is no-one bothers to check and they get away with it time after time.
It's very strange, the entirely negative media representations of addicts and addiction. You never see a happy drug user on tv or in the papers but "my heroin hell" features are everywhere. Of course they really mean "my financial, legal and social hell" but it's the dope that gets the blame. It seems part political, to keep everyone afraid, and part unthinking primeval, where most fear has its origins. How many 'users' ( even language is stolen to shape your thoughts) would stop feeling bad were heroin legal and respectable? As it is, if you've a responsible job ( as many addicts have, especially if 'scripted' ) you'll get the boot if you don't stay in the closet. Same person, same competence but nobody thinks beyond the fantasy drummed into them since primary school.
Didn't know there were no Limerick addicts 5 years ago, from you-tube they've surely caught up for lost time. As for the castigated Mr Brown, it's probably healthier to smoke heroin than fentanyl patches. But it's understandable why he strives to avoid the label of 'smackhead'.
People don't think cos they think it's easier that way. Lot of things they're told to think and to think it's their thought. 'Heroin can expose the "washed brains are sexier" indoctrination of the cosumer brigade. First off, you buy a bag instead of that designer dishware. Later, you wonder why you would ever buy such things and what, in fact, makes you 'happy'. You think about what you need and thus start to think for yourself. To think, period. The way it should be. Maybe that's the historical purpose of Europe's epidemic. Don't expect to see it on tv.
For all we know, maybe a "think tank" is responsible for the drought. Ah well, as long as they know we come in peace and leave us Dublin..
Yeah i agree with Sam!! I'm enjoying reading your posts!! I like your way of thinking, its good to think outside the box, the media is so full of crap!! My Son is 19 & i've have always told him never to believe what he hears on the news ect, 'They' want to mold us into thinking the way they want us to think, we are never really told half of whats really going on in the world!! 
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