re: Smack Epidemic: How Pain Killers are turning youth athletes into heroin addicts

Scary reading this thread about how slippery the slope is to drug addiction. I don't know anybody that struggles with drug addiction. I take that back, I know a couple of guys that smoke weed, I wouldn't call that struggling with addiction though.

When my wife gave birth last year she tore pretty good down there. She was hurting pretty bad, the next day I went to the hospital to visit her and she was high as a kite. Docs had given her a prescription of percocet. She took it a few times while in the hospital and they gave her a prescription she took home with her. She didn't follow through on taking the meds though (you know, take 2 times a day for x amount of days) because she flushed them. She told me those were some powerful arse drugs and she was scared to death she was starting to like them and would get hooked. Said she would rather be in pain than get hooked on those things. She actually had withdrawals when she quit taking them and she had only been on them a couple of days.

Dope is not that hard not to get strung out on unless your just an unhinged junkie or somebody who struggles with everything, booze included. To me recreational means a couple times a week. If you do anything everyday you have issues. Just have to be smart enough to know that 2 or 3 days in a row and youre going to have some ugly shite to deal with

The biggest issue imo is not knowing what you get any given time. Ive seen 15 year junkie friends blue out after doing a point because it was so stout or had fent or some shite in it