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Re: A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robbery spree

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Post by notus » Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 3:43 PM UTC

mothsonasloth wrote: post #17

Opiates sound hellish and indiscriminatory. My question is are the drugs themselves to blame, or BigPharma who uses them with/without the knowledge of their pharmacological effects in the short and long term?

Part of it is pharmaceutical companies overselling them as safer alternatives to previous drugs that caused epidemics. Oxycodone was marketed as safer than Heroin when it first came out. The other part is we still treat drug users as criminals and there is a lot of prejudice against addicts. People seem to think it is just a matter of willpower to beat it and it isn't. Drug users return to drugs because society still shuns them even in recovery.

Re: A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robbery spree

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Post by thrw298398 » Sat, Jun 29, 2019, 5:13 AM UTC

vmurthy wrote: post #12

From the story: "It gets to the point that it’s not about being high, it’s about not being sick". That's scary! Of course,I don't see the point of using Boeing in the headline. Robberies notwithstanding, the problems of addiction would have been the same for any one else, too.

Interesting twist. I am a high functioning addict in a top tier company who has dabbled in the more extreme drugs in the past two years. I am alone. All family is deceased. I can't seek help via EAP because I will be judged and labeled. What do I do?

Re: A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robbery spree

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Post by vmurthy » Sat, Jun 29, 2019, 8:16 AM UTC

thrw298398 wrote: post #22

vmurthy wrote: post #12

From the story: "It gets to the point that it’s not about being high, it’s about not being sick". That's scary! Of course,I don't see the point of using Boeing in the headline. Robberies notwithstanding, the problems of addiction would have been the same for any one else, too.

Interesting twist. I am a high functioning addict in a top tier company who has dabbled in the more extreme drugs in the past two years. I am alone. All family is deceased. I can't seek help via EAP because I will be judged and labeled. What do I do?

I’m afraid I don’t quite know how EAP works and am sorry to hear about your addiction. One advice If I may : no one quite cares about you for their judgements to matter. Your life is yours alone and in the interest of your life and health, please do get some help.