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What's one drug-related myth you wish would finally disappear?

I hate the stigma of people thinking being an addict makes you like scummy or a low-life. And/or assuming you're a criminal (other than possession of if it's not alcohol and you don't have a precription). I've had that. I was like "alcohol is legal and I have prescriptions for every pill I take", but they still insisted I was doing some sorta crime.
 
Oh, I've seen others post this, too, but the whole "ONE dose of [insert opioid here] will make you an addict]"
When I had surgery last month, I was on a surgical day ward, so everyone else there was specifically on that ward because they were having surgery that day and I witnessed TWO people (seperately, on the ward at different times) have an issue with being given Fentanyl (what they tell you they use as standard for post-operative pain as soon as you come out of surgery). One was worried they'd "turn into a junky" and one flat-out tried to refuse it, even when the nurse explained ALL opioids were used as street drugs by people and that Fentanyl given to you for legit severe pain by a medical professional, for one day, was not gonna turn them int an addict and was just as safe as giving them Morphine or similar.
Like, people are reacting to Fentanyl the same as if the doctor was gonna give them Heroin*

*which they actually HAVE given me before lol, but as Diamorphine, obviously
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
I hate the stigma of people thinking being an addict makes you like scummy or a low-life. And/or assuming you're a criminal (other than possession of if it's not alcohol and you don't have a precription). I've had that. I was like "alcohol is legal and I have prescriptions for every pill I take", but they still insisted I was doing some sorta crime.
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Yes we refurbished a chemist years ago just to move the methadone dispensery area round the corner of the building with a separate entrance cos the customers were complaining of having to mix with rif raf
 
ChemicallyEnhanced said:
Oh, I've seen others post this, too, but the whole "ONE dose of [insert opioid here] will make you an addict]"
When I had surgery last month, I was on a surgical day ward, so everyone else there was specifically on that ward because they were having surgery that day and I witnessed TWO people (seperately, on the ward at different times) have an issue with being given Fentanyl (what they tell you they use as standard for post-operative pain as soon as you come out of surgery). One was worried they'd "turn into a junky" and one flat-out tried to refuse it, even when the nurse explained ALL opioids were used as street drugs by people and that Fentanyl given to you for legit severe pain by a medical professional, for one day, was not gonna turn them int an addict and was just as safe as giving them Morphine or similar.
Like, people are reacting to Fentanyl the same as if the doctor was gonna give them Heroin*

*which they actually HAVE given me before lol, but as Diamorphine, obviously
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My grandfather couldn't get enough morphine when he had a bad fall ,he kept asking the ambulance medic for more lol
He'd never taken drugs in his life
 
Northwesternparacelsus said:
Im saying that the tobacco company ITG did this for tobacco. My analogy that marijuana is also genetically manipulated. To what extent is basically a trade secret for Canadians and Colombians. holding ones own govt accountable for targeting white communities to come in and buy said substance. Outside of Atlanta the epidemic has not ended and I believe no one body in the US is proving cocaine overdoses are related homicides inside of Harm Reduction reversal overdose communities no one is saying anything about the deaths

of people like Lois Vincent, a founder of the cocaine reversal movement. She Championed this movement of amazing empirical science process and died in August of 2025. Cocaine hcl was not in the toxic screen nor was their a ruling made officially. She was my mentor and I believe someone is accountable for her death via overdose of cocaine and tranq and the harm reduction north carolina community is covering for them or is only now seeing that the system did not fail her.
Im holding out she wanted an end to the WOD. She championed this movement and now no one in her circles is holding her non.profit advocacy group after she passed. Have messaged participants but nothing
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I did indeed misunderstand your point
 
@notsmokeymcpot420

Clear something up for me, I own a few copies of the CSA for writing purposes, have searched for a few things at the federal level with regard to amendments for this act. Schedule 3 is mostly prescription drugs, veterinarian drugs, and steroids.

Now with the addition of marijuana to schedule 3 at the federal level, the US govt is appointing leadership to reign in the marijuana dispensaries and holders of licenses? Could you possibly clear up what or if this cannabis Czar are forwarding awareness of medical programs

Ive only read about the DEA forwarding protections for medical dispensaries here innthe US..
 
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