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re: Why is fentanyl the drug of choice for drug dealing now?
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:18 pm to PowerTool
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:18 pm to PowerTool
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I suspect they're not having fun, they're going numb.
This is what I don’t understand about this type of drug use. Do users want to be numb? Why? I’ve never heard any of them give an explanation for why they do it.
Do they think life sucks so bad that they want to turn it off for a while? It seems like a form of temporary suicide. For all intents and purposes they die and then come back, usually.
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Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:22 pm to Kentucker
No, No, and No. All of the forgoing is wrong. You are witnessing the growing pains of fentanyl distribution. This stage is an early stage. Once they figure out the doses everything will follow its normal course. Dope heads will do fine until they die, dealers will make bank and we will all have to find something else on which to opine.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:43 pm to Kentucker
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This is what I don’t understand about this type of drug use. Do users want to be numb? Why? I’ve never heard any of them give an explanation for why they do it.
Do they think life sucks so bad that they want to turn it off for a while? It seems like a form of temporary suicide. For all intents and purposes they die and then come back, usually.
My recreational use was limited to weed, psychedelics, and blow in my younger days.
From friends, acquaintances, and strangers I've talked to over the more recent years what you describe is exactly why people get involved with heroin and similar drugs. They seek that numbness.
Over the last year I've seen a few YouTube videos interviewing people on the street in places like Skid Row and they prefer fentanyl now. I've had a few conversations with addicts in my small town and they prefer it as well.
All about them blues.
This article gives a decent overview of why fentanyl is replacing heroin as the drug of choice for many. Easier to smoke it than shoot up heroin. Quicker more intense, albeit shorter lived high. Decrease in supply of prescription opioids. Easier for cartels to produce and traffic a synthetic than an organic drug. More profitable for dealers to press counterfeit pills than acquire legit pills. Etc.
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Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:07 pm to Kentucker
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This is what I don’t understand about this type of drug use. Do users want to be numb? Why? I’ve never heard any of them give an explanation for why they do it.
Whenever I was in excruciating pain from my Rheumatoid Arthritis/Ankylosing Spondylitis, my rheumatologist prescribed me about 20-40mg of methadone a day to get by. Everybody is different, for me, it numbed my pain away and I was able to be 25% functional but gave me bad side effects. I stopped cold turkey whenever I had suicidal thoughts and was very close to killing myself. Now, I stick with medical marijuana to help relieve the pain. I do feel sad for people that are addicted to opiods, however, I feel no sympathy for somebody that OD'd on fentanyl because it's up to the drug user to put it in their bodies.
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 7/27/22 at 12:02 am to Kentucker
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This is what I don’t understand about this type of drug use. Do users want to be numb? Why? I’ve never heard any of them give an explanation for why they do it.
At first yes, but then it’s so they aren’t sick. They become physically dependent on it and get dope sick every so often and got to get another shot.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 12:04 am to Kentucker
quote:go sit in a couple NA meetings and here their stories
This is what I don’t understand about this type of drug use. Do users want to be numb? Why? I’ve never heard any of them give an explanation for why they do it.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 6:59 am to Kentucker
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This is what I don’t understand about this type of drug use. Do users want to be numb? Why? I’ve never heard any of them give an explanation for why they do it.
The effects of abuse/trauma or just no prospects in life.
Drug addiction is correlated to social problems. Often, social problems are from trauma or economic prospects.
That's why you see addiction skyrocketing in all these small Rust Belt towns that lost "the factory" and have populations with no ability to progress. They're stuck in the same town with the other "losers" and have no options. That cycle will always produce addictions.
It's the same paradigm that we've seen in the ghetto for 40 years now. Kill economic prospects and you destroy populations.
This post was edited on 7/27/22 at 7:00 am
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