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I think the repercussion on addiction carries far more weight than riding a motorcyle or jumping out a plane, you can afford the second two and you are not a bother to society or your family. My husband parachutes, hundreds of jumps, am I thrilled, no but it certainly isn't the same as being married to a drug addict. I was married to an addict with 3 little kids for a decade, as a wife it took me another 10 yrs to work through it, I was as much a mess without drugs as he was on drugs, which led me being involved with vast amounts of people with addiction.
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I think the repercussion on addiction carries far more weight than riding a motorcyle or jumping out a plane, you can afford the second two and you are not a bother to society or your family. My husband parachutes, hundreds of jumps, am I thrilled, no but it certainly isn't the same as being married to a drug addict. I was married to an addict with 3 little kids for a decade, as a wife it took me another 10 yrs to work through it, I was as much a mess without drugs as he was on drugs, which led me being involved with vast amounts of people with addiction.



I realize that addiction is a big problem for some people but this society has made it into a much more scary and severe problem than it has to be. Also, it still isn't worse than getting killed while flying in a small plane or jumping out of one.

Addictions can be dealt with and reduced in severity to the point where people can live with them. Getting killed while engaging in a recreational activity has no remedy or treatment.
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It is scary and severe and quite an unpleasant life. I had a 44 y.o. addict tell me a few yrs. ago who was in front of the judge and the judge told her he was surprised to see someone at that 'advanced' age in his court, they are usually dead or have quit. She did not go to jail, yet it was her 6th court appearance. It is not that I am happy with the way Oregon deals with addicts but it is far better than Texas and many other states.
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It is scary and severe and quite an unpleasant life. I had a 44 y.o. addict tell me a few yrs. ago who was in front of the judge and the judge told her he was surprised to see someone at that 'advanced' age in his court, they are usually dead or have quit. She did not go to jail, yet it was her 6th court appearance. It is not that I am happy with the way Oregon deals with addicts but it is far better than Texas and many other states.



I've been an advocate for legalizing one of the most addictive drugs in the world - heroin, for a long time. Before that I'd bought into the government propaganda about that narcotic, about how destructive it was. Then I read about heroin and discovered that it wasn't a terrible drug at all. It did almost nothing harmful to a person just like other narcotics. It didn't even have that many significant side effects. Alcohol, the beloved legal drug and beverage of millions is actually much more toxic and harmful to your body. You can also get addicted to that as many people have.

The simple truth is that as bad as addiction is it was never a good reason to make heroin illegal. Unfortunately it's addictive power was used along with false claims of its harmfulness to scare people into going along with idiotic things like drug raids into peoples' homes in the middle of the night.

The only reason why it is unusual to see a long term addict is this society's extreme efforts to keep people from using heroin all the way up to breaking into peoples' homes and shooting innocent people like Breonna Taylor to keep that from happening. As well as the dangerous black market which resulted from that. If the drug was readily available in safe surroundings to addicts they could use it at will safely and they would likely survive at least as long as alcoholics. And probably function a little better as well. Heroin does not reduce your motor skills and your ability to function normally like alcohol does.

The reason why I find this subject interesting is because it appears to be one of those elephants in the room that most people seem to have trouble seeing. Getting up on your high horse about "evil" heroin and other narcotics while condoning and tolerating boozing is absolutely ridiculous. Not that you do that but many other people have with many people continuing to do so.
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I don't know where you "learned" heroin addiction is no big deal but that is wrong. If you've been around and listened to hundreds of addicts, you would know that is wrong. That however is not to say that some persons cannot or do not want to get clean, I am not in disagreement with those persons that heroin should be distributed to those people. I also see European laws unacceptable, you make persons show up once to twice a day at the same clinic except Sundays or they don't get their fix. If you accept their choice and supply it, they shouldn't be grounded for life, I see that as a punishment.
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I'm not claiming that heroin addiction or addiction to any narcotic is no big deal. The problem is that this society makes addiction much worse while acting as if those who are addicted are extremely flawed people and/or bad people. It also has used a lot of propaganda to convince people that heroin is a very destructive drug when in reality it's just another narcotic that can be used to reduce pain.
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Your last sentence is completely wrong, it is destructive and does alleviate pain. Many ideas are now changing about addiction, since most have a family member or friend that been addicted or has died. I want our justice system to catch up, you do not put addicts in jail, or punish them in any way, that should be the goal
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The only thing we are disagreeing about is the notion that heroin is destructive. As I said it doesn't do any physical or psychological harm to the person using it unless it is misused. Of course that becomes much more likely when it is only obtained illicitly, the only option users currently have in this country.
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BTW, heroin is essentially just revved up morphine. It converts to morphine in the human body and as you know, katie, morphine is legal and has been for a long time.
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And you need an Rx for morphine.
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