25 November, 2017

LucyBowels comments on America's Opioid Epidemic.

LucyBowels comments on America's Opioid Epidemic.:

Not many people just start shooting heroin. It's an incremental but eventual process. The worst fear is that needle before you try it. But one day, pills don't get you high anymore, snorting heroin doesn't get you high anymore, and someone you know promises they can get the high back for a quarter of what you've been paying.
So you agree, and they tie off your arm, you look away squeamishly, and feel a wave of disappointment in yourself: this is the one thing you promised you'd never do, no matter what. And as that thought washes over you, it's gone, replaced by a better type of high than you've had in years. And 6 hours later, you put the needle in your arm yourself and sign your life away.


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