Re: New Ways to Loosen Addiction's Grip -- NYTimes
From: Johnny 5 (johnny5_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/08/04
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Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 04:02:20 GMT
joseywales@outlaw.nospam (David James Polewka) wrote in
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> Serious drug addiction is a problem that afflicts more than 10 million
> Americans. The grip of hard-core drugs like heroin and cocaine is
I think you are wrong with this number, I met an army captain on my
greyhound bus trip a few months back - he said lots of military people
are on drugs, I know lots of civilians are on drugs here in Tampa. 10
million is way too low - I have heard it reported the USA consumes 85% of
the worlds designer drugs.
> notoriously stubborn, and relapse rates are staggering. Rehabilitation
Yes, I know a lot of heroin users that don't want to get off it.
> working on vaccines that can prevent people from getting high by
HAHA! They WANT to get HIGH, they dont care about the negative effects -
STD's, loss of life, money, DOES NOT MATTER to many of the drug users I
know. THat next high is all that matters.
> Medical Center-Presbyterian. "It's being seen now as a disease of the
> reward centers of the brain, much like pneumonia is seen as a disease >
the lungs."
Well the human race was given pleasure by eating and screwing because
this helped our survival, but now brittney won't eat and she won't screw
so we are all doomed - collectively anyways. I don't see the mothers
with babies like I used to see 20-30 years ago - they don't have kids -
that would get in the way of party and career. But aren't the children
our future?
> Researchers have known for some time that all substances of abuse,
> including nicotine, alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and heroin, activate
the
> same pleasure pathway in the brain. But they are now finding that many
> drugs cause subtle changes in brain activity that remain for weeks,
> months or years. Such alterations, studies have found, help unleash the
> cravings that can plunge recovered users back into the throes of
> addiction long after their last puff or snort.
Yah I know a lot of crackheads that can't enjoy a good steak or a great
orgasm anymore, I still have pleasure from those things, but they have
nothing.
> Although experts acknowledge that drug abuse begins as a voluntary
> behavior, many argue that at some point a perilous line is crossed.
I was pressured many times to partake in the heroin and crack rock and
exstacy - many times - mostly because my desire for fun sex put me around
drug users in this area - and had I not seen how these people acted when
strung out and when they couldn't get thier fix - I might have succumbed
to the pressure - but personally witnessing thier loss of control and
stupidity gave me all the strength I would have ever needed to deny it.
I never would have done it for the drug high though, I wanted the sex
that came from being around pot smoking or drug using chicks. If eve
hadn't put that fig leaf on, I wouldn't have even been tempted to the
dark side of designer drug addiction. Its a downward spiraling collapse
- man wants the hole - bitches momma said no hole for the man unless he
gives you the world, man get tired of working like a donkey chasing a
carrot he can never get, so he goes bad and starts better living through
chemistry - able to get her to come off that hole for 20 dollars in rock
and 200K in cars and houses never got him a damn thing. It's simple
economics really.
It TRULY saddens me that men like Wesley Snipes and Hugh Grant have to go
get crack head hookers to get basic human needs met because of spoiled
american bitches - how pathetic - what kind of message does that send?
> is hijacked. The urge to get high is insatiable. In experiments, lab
> animals will press a lever for cocaine until it kills them.
Lets see, sex every night with a cool chick with a good attitude or taco
bell, hmmm, I would probably start losing weight too - HAHA!
> "These drugs stimulate the reward circuitry so acutely that over time
> they disrupt it," said Dr. Dackis, adding that addiction is so lethal
> because it tricks the brain into acting as if the drugs were necessary
> for survival.
Moderation in all things, even moderation - hehe.
> In its time, methadone was considered a breakthrough: It got people off
THe H addicts I have known were not helped by methodone, there was this
one girl who always licked her needle before she stuck it in her foot,
taking off the burrs I think, but the mouth is very dirty - especially
her mouth - HAHA - and this would put very bad germs into her body - and
these germs started attacking her heart - and her heart valves blew up -
and the doctor told us that it is common amongst Heroin addicts to have
bad heart valves because of the germs in their mouth getting into thier
bloodstream - he said he tells them it will kill thier heart valves - but
they don't care - they lick the needles anyway.
> Between 180,000 and 200,000 Americans are on methadone, said Dr. David
> M. McDowell, director of a program at Columbia University that helps
> people make the transition from methadone to buprenorphine, then refers
> them to other doctors for private care. In New York, 36,000 people are
> on methadone.
That may be what is reported, but I think the underground economy is far
larger than these numbers suggest.
> a better safety profile and many users can be slowly weaned from it,
> leaving them drug-free.
They dont WANT to be DRUG FREE, the negative consequences are ACCEPTABLE
to them, broke, dead, it doesn't matter to a lot of them I have met.
Survival and LIFE has stopped mattering to a lot of these people - money
won't save them - getting them to want to LIVE will - but I think it is a
lost cause - they don't want to go on.
> "If you get stressed out and decide you want to get high, you can go
see
> your dealer but you're wasting your money because there's that three-
day
> safety cushion where buprenorphine is blocking the receptors," Dr.
> McDowell said.
HAHA - WASTING MONEY! THe crackheads STEAL it, hook for it, KILL for it,
the concept of WASTING MONEY never enters thier HEAD - BWAAHAHAH!
Why does our justice system put people back into society who are ready to
die and will kill you for a 20 dollar HIGH? NOT FAIR.
> about 20 telephone calls in the last three weeks from people looking
for
> buprenorphine. He had to turn them away, he said, because he was still
> awaiting authorization to prescribe it. In New York, doctors who want
BWAHAHA, a psychiatrist in my old town used to rent from me, he
subscribed to the magazine HIGH TIMES - he said son - drugs are POWER -
you can do ANYTHING to ANYONE if you have enough DRUGS - HAHA!
> relationships and overcome psychological dependence. Moreover, an
addict
> who is determined to get high, experts say, can counteract even the
most
> effective medication - by not taking it.
Right, you make the base assumption the CARE about LIFE and want to LIVE
- they don't.
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