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Discussion: Why Heroin/Cocaine is bad?
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Because weed is the one and only Queen of Pop.
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Originally posted by Yndda
bc it's super addictive and they're both quite bad for you
do they not teach y'all about drug safety in secondary school or
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Wow not a mod CLEARING the thread when it's obvious trolling.
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I wouldn't really put coke in the same league as heroin (which is much much much worse, both in terms of relative dangers and risk of addiction) but neither is advisable in the slightest.
It's no "conspiracy" that they're considered dangerous. Especially heroin. Don't even do that **** once.
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Because theyre mixed/cut with stuff that can kill you. + snorting anything damages your nasal canal and injecting heroin comes with the risk of disease and infection
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the title of this thread is sig worthy
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Originally posted by Yndda
bc they're super addictive and they're both quite bad for you. especially heroin.
did they not teach y'all about drug safety in primary school or ?
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I think part of the problem is that most drug safety programs put nearly all recreational drugs on roughly the same level of severity. Once people realize that that's largely hokum and that drugs like, say, marijuana pose (relatively) little risk, that fosters a significant amount of mistrust in these programs.
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Originally posted by Humoresque
Anecdote time
A sibling of mine is addicted to heroin and has been for almost nine years now. She lost all motivation, became very unhealthy, prone to unpredictable mood swings, lost all passion and personality, began stealing from all of us to support her addiction, lied all the time, surrounded herself with tons of shady, sleazy people, used and abused everyone in her life who was sympathetic and genuinely tried to help her... she's thirty and now wears fake teeth because her real ones were so rotten. She was beautiful, people told her all the time that she should be a model. And now she's just like this shell of who she used to be, in every way. She's been arrested multiple times, was living under house arrest with an ankle bracelet at one point, she cannot hold down a job and when things go wrong in her life, it's always someone else's fault, she refuses to admit how this addiction has been detrimental.
It's a sickness and I know that the addiction takes control of you and heroin is one of the hardest drugs to beat. Two years ago while I was in the shower, she stole my debit card and took out $100. I had no idea and just assumed I misplaced the card. When I was at work I just had this suspicion that something happened, I needed to check my bank account. I went on my online account and sure enough, there was the proof. My family has not had contact with her since. It was a difficult decision, but after nearly a decade of trying, we feel there's nothing more we can do, and we need to live our lives. Just having a drug addict in the family is financially draining, mentally draining, emotionally draining, it can even be physically taxing, the way the stress manifests itself throughout your body. And that's not even BEING an addict, that's just being close to one. I do want her to get healthy but the trust has been so broken, she will not be in my life anymore.
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Similar situation with my sister. But she started out with meth and now she does that and heroin. She had 4 kids and lost them all. 2 of them are with my oldest sister and the other 2 are with their father. Tbh it sucks that i dont remember her before the drugs
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Originally posted by BlazingLovatic
ew ew ew ew ew, I'm only a minute in, but this is GROSS.
nvm then.
NEVER trying these drugs.
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This girl who lived next to me as a kid got into a snowmobile accident and got addicted to pain pills. That can become expensive.. so she started using Heroin. It's actually cheaper than pain pills but i would say it's faster in how it affects you.. like you just deteriorate.
She used to be a figure skater and had all this promise... and you can't even recognize her. it has destroyed her life.
Watch some "Intervention" episodes
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Originally posted by Humoresque
Anecdote time
A sibling of mine is addicted to heroin and has been for almost nine years now. She lost all motivation, became very unhealthy, prone to unpredictable mood swings, lost all passion and personality, began stealing from all of us to support her addiction, lied all the time, surrounded herself with tons of shady, sleazy people, used and abused everyone in her life who was sympathetic and genuinely tried to help her... she's thirty and now wears fake teeth because her real ones were so rotten. She was beautiful, people told her all the time that she should be a model. And now she's just like this shell of who she used to be, in every way. She's been arrested multiple times, was living under house arrest with an ankle bracelet at one point, she cannot hold down a job and when things go wrong in her life, it's always someone else's fault, she refuses to admit how this addiction has been detrimental.
It's a sickness and I know that the addiction takes control of you and heroin is one of the hardest drugs to beat. Two years ago while I was in the shower, she stole my debit card and took out $100. I had no idea and just assumed I misplaced the card. When I was at work I just had this suspicion that something happened, I needed to check my bank account. I went on my online account and sure enough, there was the proof. My family has not had contact with her since. It was a difficult decision, but after nearly a decade of trying, we feel there's nothing more we can do, and we need to live our lives. Just having a drug addict in the family is financially draining, mentally draining, emotionally draining, it can even be physically taxing, the way the stress manifests itself throughout your body. And that's not even BEING an addict, that's just being close to one. I do want her to get healthy but the trust has been so broken, she will not be in my life anymore.
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i'm so sorry
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Originally posted by Sazare
I think part of the problem is that most drug safety programs put nearly all recreational drugs on roughly the same level of severity. Once people realize that that's largely hokum and that drugs like, say, marijuana pose (relatively) little risk, that fosters a significant amount of mistrust in these programs.
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seriously! the way they taught us about weed in school it was so extra. my parents smoke weed and learning about it in school made me so upset that they smoked it [I was like 11]. They really demonize it to be something it's not.
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Originally posted by AccioMiley
Similar situation with my sister. But she started out with meth and now she does that and heroin. She had 4 kids and lost them all. 2 of them are with my oldest sister and the other 2 are with their father. Tbh it sucks that i dont remember her before the drugs
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That's too bad. We were at least able to have a lot of good times before all of this started happening. But if you can't even remember who she was before she got addicted, that's another unfortunate loss.
And too bad for the kids too. On the one hand, it's good to know they're with (I'm assuming) responsible people who are present and able to look after their welfare. But on the other hand, kids with drug addicted parents can often turn their confusion and anger and sadness inward. Hopefully they're surrounded by plenty of people who love them and let them know how valuable they are!
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Originally posted by Humoresque
That's too bad. We were at least able to have a lot of good times before all of this started happening. But if you can't even remember who she was before she got addicted, that's another unfortunate loss.
And too bad for the kids too. On the one hand, it's good to know they're with (I'm assuming) responsible people who are present and able to look after their welfare. But on the other hand, kids with drug addicted parents can often turn their confusion and anger and sadness inward. Hopefully they're surrounded by plenty of people who love them and let them know how valuable they are!
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The two that are with my oldest sister are doing very well for the most part. They both have ADHD and learning problems though. Bt they are loved and taken care of. Te other two are doing well too, but the father is an asshole so i dont get to see them often
I just hope she gets clean and realizes that her problems are her own fault and not my mothers
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Originally posted by BGKC
It's bad not only because it's a harmful substance but because the CIA intentionally distributes these drugs into urban communities for profit. Land of the free, home of the largest prison population in the world. Irony.
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hood conspiracy theory b/s
now the government spreading aids into the gay community to kill us off i believe.
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