Yeah, ex-cops are like that. /s
“We spend an awful lot of money in jailing people. We don’t spend nearly as much money treating them,”
Yeah. Let’s spend more and more on new government programs.
You posted thus liberal mush head garbage.
I was on Dilaudid for three weeks after my spinal surgery. My pain management dr took over from there and dropped me to Oxycotin at that point.
The sudden drop put me into withdrawals. They didn’t tell me what was happening and I went though hell in ignorance.
It was the worst pain that I’ve ever had. As bad as induced chidbirth - only it went on for ten straight days. I really believed that I was dying and I hurt too much to ask for help. I just accepted that fate and waited for it to happen. My skin hurt. Every nerve in my body screamed in pain. I was so cold, but I was sweating out every drop of fluid. My guts turned inside out.
It was worse than any flu or episode of food poisoning that I ever had.
Labor. Transition labor. That’s what this pain compared to. Ten days of every nerve in your body screaming in unbelievable pain. That’s detox.
For the last year, I’ve been trying to get off my pain meds, but I’m terrified to talk to my doctor. I’m terrified to tell her that I want to get off because I’m scared that she’s just going to cut me off the second that I admit that the opiates are having a negative effect on my life.
So, what’s the solution for addicts?
Other countries are having success with treating heroin with... heroin.
You give the addict what they need to be happy for 24 hours. Every day, they must come get their new supply. Every day they’re offered the option to choose HUMANE rehabilitation or to take their drugs.
They don’t use dealers because the dealers are unnecessary. They don’t share and create new addicts because they don’t have enough to introduce a new user. The dealers go out of business.
No new addicts. Dealers gone. Addicts willingly taking the walk through the rehab door. Addicts allowed to work and function as members of society instead of being denied work while struggling.
There is a better way to do this and I go for results. I didn’t sympathize with addicts until I went through my own detox and realized how horrible it really was.
We need to fight the WOD effectively. We’re wrong with the ‘tough love’ approach and it’s time to try a program that actually works.
Give heroin addicts a safe supply of heroin and give them a safe way ‘out’. Opiate withdrawal doesn’t have to be so painful. Cut off the dealers and stop new addictions from happening.
Right now I’m trying to get off hydrocodone. Physician prescribed opiates. And it hurts more than anyone can know. Every 25% drop in daily dose makes me feel like I’ve been hammered for a full week. It’s actually making my chronic pain much worse. I am more sensitive.
LEAP is right. The WOD is wrong-headed.
We can do better.