After you see the real horrors of drug addiction
I think the horrors of drug addiction are a lot worse when you are
living it...than
seeing it. I certainly would not be jumping up and down for joy
wanting thousands of injection rooms all over the country. But...
Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics between July 2006 and July 2007,
I'd rather see paramedics spending their time on people who are sick and injured than ferrying OD'ed addicts to emergency rooms...over and over and over.
I can't sit in judgement of WHY someone becomes a junkie. I haven't lived their life so I can't judge why they made the bad choices they did.
I don't see any difference between an alcoholic and a junkie. Both are
addicts. Its just that one is socially accepted and the other isn't.
One drug is easily and rather cheaply obtainable and the other one isn't. One you might have to steal or do other terrible things to get it because it isn't legally available like alcohol is. One you can get in a store for a few bucks
and have the added benefit of looking cool and sociable while sucking it down it in bars and restaurants and parties. Then you can get in your car and drive home risking the lives of everyone on the road around you. But that's ok because alcohol doesn't carry the stigma that other drugs do. But make no mistake...alcohol IS a drug. It just happens to be a legal and socially accepted one. And if you
ABUSE alcohol, you are a drug abuser no different than a junkie.
BTW...not all drug addicts are street junkies shooting up heroin. Many are sitting right beside you in your office hard at work...or its your bus driver...a teacher...or the mother of three next door...
strongly dislike ...drugs and the people that use them
I use drugs. I take them for migraines...and at the moment for my heart until I find out why its misbehaving. Drug
user and ABUSER are totally different things.