Rationalization is a helluva drug.
I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
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Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
From my reading, alcohol drinkers are absolutely included in his definition of a "drug user" and the exact same objection would apply - how can you do anything when you're drunk on alcohol?
I've actually often used booze to power beyond sense and get extra work done at the end of a day, however there is a HUGE proviso - it has to be design work, or stuff that I know inside out and could do blind-folded anyway. Anything to do with programming or logic and I became a useless head-scratching moron, going around in ever tighter circles of stupidity. Design work though? There was many a time I awoke the next…
Same. I tried coding tipsy, especially after colleague farewell meals, and I never did anything good. At most I gave funny code reviews to people.
For most of my life I also cooked sober. But when I started cooking tipsy, I began preparing meals I could have never believed I made myself. My current lasagna recipe is an absolute bomb and it's been perfected over a dozen drunken cooking sessions. Even Italians asked me for the recipe.
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you drink alcohol? If so you're a drug user... We've just decided for myriad, commercial, political and historical reasons to legitimise some and make others illegal. Note I never used the word "scientific" in that sentence.
I don't drink alcohol. The best advocates of drug use are drug users. They're quite passionate about it. Where I come from, they make fun of you if you don't drink and sing a song about how you're "too weak to drink." Every occasion calls for a drink: childbirth, Friday, getting married, getting divorced. It is so common that you're the weird one for not drinking.
Bavaria? (Oh I see your profile. I’ve been to NG some years ago - my uncle’s family is from Maribor I think)
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, how many people will see this headline and rush off to a back alley to buy a shot of heroin from some junkie?
Several years ago, I read about the significant nootropic effects of nicotine and spent time on forums that downplayed the potential negative impacts. I ended up trying it and became addicted for years. Social contagion can have significant effects on social issues like this.
By that logic, we need to ban cooking shows - the habit reinforcing qualities of food are well known and obesity is a leading cause of health issues. It looks like you got off easy since your "drug" of choice nicotine has entirely negligible negative effects on an organism of the size of a human - it's a neurotoxin that in the quantities we use it for recreationally can't even harm insects (much like caffeine!).
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not defending drug use at work, but if you're to be fired it should be for the performance related issues you mentioned caused by the drug, not because of the drug itself. Edit for more context: Depending on the drug, substances consumed outside of working hours would still show up in a drug test. Firing someone for something they do outside of work shouldn't be acceptable. If you can prove they consumed drugs that w…
Proactive vs reactive? If you can tell someone will cause an accident, you don't wait until it happens.
How can you tell they will definitely cause an accident?
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
Opioids are insanely and ~~instantly~~ quickly addictive. I accidentally became addicted after knee surgery. When the pain subsided, I stopped taking them, and within a day I found myself curled up in a ball and wanting to rip my own skin off. It's really true when addicts describe it as "being uncomfortable in your own skin". The moment I realized I was experiencing withdrawal, I flushed the meds down the toilet and…
Someone I know had a basic nose surgery (bone deviation) and then she experienced withdrawal symptoms after the surgery because of the anesthetics, which required intervention by professionals and she was unable to work for a month. Edit: Just to clarify, she was not prescribed any opioids/drugs to be taken post surgery, it was purely the anesthetics.
An anesthetic would typically consist of something like a small dose of a short-acting benzo before surgery for anxiety, propofol (very short acting) for induction, an opioid for pain management, an anesthetic gas like sevoflurane to maintain anesthesia, pressors to bring up blood pressure if necessary, and a few other drugs that probably don't merit mention.
Of these drugs, the only ones that might cause withdrawal symptoms would be the benzo or the opioid. The benzo, if it's even given at all, is going to be tiny. Even if we were to hypothesize that a single unusually large dose of an opioid could induce dependency, a surgery where the patient isn't even given opioids to take home wouldn't warrant such a dose in the OR.
In short, your second-hand account makes no sense.
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#317I had a group of college friends who started taking heroin in the 90’s who thought like this. It upset me and I told them so. At the time they said I was “being uptight.” We fell out over their heroin use. About a year later, one of these former friends died from an overdose. He was a generous person with a great future ahead of him. He’s been dead 25 years now. When I think about it now, it still saddens me. He missed so much.
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll admit that is an insane amount that I wasn't expecting, but something about those numbers just feels off. Like 10 drinks a day? Many people don't even drink that much water Maybe we're getting a very different view of the US from the UK, but despite all of America's flaws and how weak the beer is, it seems so unexpected to me that 1/10 of people are opening a new drink every 90 minutes and somehow managing to ho…
if someone drinks from 5pm-10pm one can of beer every 30 minutes thats 10 drinks. they could easily wake up at 7am, hold down a job and rinse and repeat. a 30 rack of miller light (my beer of choice) is $22 which is 73 cents a beer so thats ~$7.50 a day on beer. obviously there are cheaper routes (buying $10 handles of vodka for instance). so at least in america, price really isn't a factor here. and holding down a j…
>> if someone drinks from 5pm-10pm one can of beer every 30 minutes thats 10 drinks.
The bars are open until at least 2, you know.
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're missing the point of the article a bit. Everyone knows Heroin is dangerous and it's iterated on in the article as well. Only responsible and healthy individuals should self-use drugs, generally speaking. Then you can also argue that you might not have lost your friends only because of Heroin the substance, but also how people with heroin addiction is "treated" and frowned upon in society. I think what…
Anybody who thinks this harm reduction strategy works should go visit cities that have employed it for years like Vancouver, Canada where there are legal shooting galleries everywhere, no arrests for personal amounts, and prescribed heroin that thousands of drug addicts have been on for 10 years now and the problem gets worse everyday. There used to just be a contained area of people passed out all over the street no…
Heroin is still illegal in Vancouver. Only a handful of addicts get free heroin.
And because it’s illegal most addicts have to pay high prices for heroin of unknown potency, and frequent laced with Fentanyl. That directly leads to overdoses and hundreds of deaths, along with street crime to fund expensive habits.
Re: I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
Proactive vs reactive? If you can tell someone will cause an accident, you don't wait until it happens.
How can you tell they will definitely cause an accident?
The same reason you're not supposed to drive or operate heavy machinery on a wide variety of medications, including legal and over the counter ones.