Addiction

[Mr. Tea]

you couldn't be too arty, but also you had to utilise an untold amount of synonyms for genitals.

Have you tried "cunt" and "cock"? They get the idea across fairly effectively and most English-speakers will know what they mean.

 

[blissblogger]

 

[version]

UK's first full heroin perscription scheme extended after vast drop in crime and homelessness

‘Prison, increased sentencing, police crackdowns and all other efforts to break that cycle have failed,’ says police and crime commissioner

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Murphy]

Common sense prevails. John Marks deserves a mention

Prescribing heroin: John Marks, the Merseyside clinics, and lessons from history - PubMed

The prescribing of heroin has a long and contentious history as a method for treating people with heroin problems. This paper revisits a controversial 'experiment' with heroin prescribing in Northwest England between 1982 and 1995, led by the psychiatrist Dr. John Marks. Marks' work has been...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[luka]

 

[Murphy]

Purple headed lesbians?

 

[woops]

well it strikes me that guy is very strong willed or strong minded and says some good/funny stuff but he doesn't come out and say, if the programs/counsellors whatever are helping you then that's good.

 

[luka]

Purple headed lesbians?

i think he means purple haired

 

[shiels]

How do you feel about this man luke?

 

[luka]

Conflicted

 

[luka]

What about you?

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

I am interested in a) the addiction to knowledge, and (closely related) b) the addiction to information. Maybe c) addiction to identity. Or d) addiction to power.

Peak Josef k

 

[version]

Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement of lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller.

apnews.com

 

[IdleRich]

But will they ever be fined so much that they will regret oxycontin in financial terms?

 

[IdleRich]

Also, it's not just the drug is it, it's the way the whole system was set up to prescribe it in just too small doses but limit access, perfect storm for addiction.

 

[IdleRich]

In my experience the way you get most fucked is when you can't get quite enough of something and you're chasing thst high.

 

[IdleRich]

When I sold my flat in Hackney and packed up all the furniture, I had already made a plan to check into a local bijou hotel and for my dealer to bring round £1000 pounds worth of heroin plus some crack. Those days of just locking ourselves away and having a seemingly infinite supply of gear (until we had to reload two or three times) I still remember very fondly. Though I don't really remember them at all. The point is when there is a surfeit it's fine, when there's not it's when you start getting desperate.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Also, it's not just the drug is it, it's the way the whole system was set up to prescribe it in just too small doses but limit access, perfect storm for addiction.

Massive adverts in doctors' waiting rooms, featuring happy, healthy, attractive and not remotely junkie-ish looking people, saying "Ask your doctor today about Opie-Yummiez, the highly effective and totally harmless new painkiller from Purdue."

 

[IdleRich]

When I sold my flat in Hackney and packed up all the furniture, I had already made a plan to check into a local bijou hotel and for my dealer to bring round £1000 pounds worth of heroin plus some crack. Those days of just locking ourselves away and having a seemingly infinite supply of gear (until we had to reload two or three times) I still remember very fondly. Though I don't really remember them at all. The point is when there is a surfeit it's fine, when there's not it's when you start getting desperate.

That period was terrible, moved back in with my parents but needed gear. Rang my guy in London and he said he would deliver to the Oxfordshire countryside but minimum order was 1k... I was flush and soon he was coming every other day. Sneaking out my parents house almost every evening to grab a macdonalds milkshake cup filled to the brim with bags of skag.
When I say terrible I mean great obviously.

 

[luka]

you were spending a grand every other day? that's quite flush.