re: how many people do you know who have OD'd on heroin?

Yeah, dude was laying on the steps of a bank on like Charters and conti or something like that. It was late and not really many people out.... I had just walked through Jax Square and there was a ton of street kids out there all hyped up and fighting or reinacting a fight just riled up. I didn’t think anything about it... then came across this dude. He was passed out, but it didn’t look right so I kinda kicked him and said something to him and realized he was laying in a pool of blood.... come to find out, he had just got in a fight down there and stumbled a few blocks away alone and layed down to die I guess, and I found him.

I know a few but only one that matters. Good man, great friend. He got hooked and spent his life chasing that next high. Didn't wake up one morning. Sad thing is, when I got the call I already knew what they were going to say. God bless em.

Only one and he died. 99% sure he overdosed on purpose.

I knew a couple of guys that were after Oxycontin which is Heroin in pill form. I know to people that have died but I do not think it was from a heroin overdose.

1 - He didnt make it.

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41 years old and none but I've got a couple potentials in the works.. kills me that these guys have taken this route.. Don't know if they've hit the heroin yet but the opiad addiction is strong with them.

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Does that post make you feel good about yourself?? Just curious, because you come across as a clueless, insecure, and ignorant son of a bitch.

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No, I wasn't raised around druggies, I wasn't friends with druggies, and I'm not professionally associated with druggies.

By virtue of the fact that I know exactly zero druggies, I don't know any druggies that OD'd (on heroin or any drug, for that matter).

That's part of what's wrong with people these days - there's no longer a sense of pride in not being a waste. It's Hands Across America for these people who fight our police and who are addicted prescription medication or illicit drugs.

I'll support you if you want to boo-hoo-hoo for those people, but I do take pride in not having anything to do with them or their ilk.

The thing is, in a lot of cases these people don't present the "normal signs" of a druggie.

In my case, the guys I knew all worked, were normal guys by normal standards. No one knew that they were having as large a problem as they did.

I wouldn't consider myself as someone that was "raised around druggies". In fact, the guys I knew that passed weren't raised around druggies either. They unfortunately got introduced to it later in life and paid the ultimate price for it.

I'd recommend you get off your soapbox and have a little compassion for folks. If we're being honest, you probably are associated with a "druggie" or two and just don't know it. I hope you never have to find out like some of us did.

They’re in every town, I guess. But I wasn’t raised among them. I had decent parents and they associated with other decent people. My friends were all decent people. We had jobs, played sports, went to college. But none of them were dopers.

I can accept that sometimes shite happens, but it isn’t impossible not to associate with druggie criminals.