all the things that piss me off about it.
--Women who get pregnant just so they can get onto the government's methadone program. Nothing like having to give morphine to a neonate
because the kid is going through withdrawal because his/her mother was using while pregnant. It's even worse when you consider the possibilities of that kid's future starting out in such a fashion. Druggie mother who only had the kid to get into a free drug program.
--The cop out that adicitons are a "disease" and not an adiction. I think that in some instances it can be considered a disease but there are too many times it is used as an excuse so the person doesn't have to take any responsibility. We had a local bonehead go on the air comparing methadone usage in addicts to insulin for diabetics.
I guess the people on methadone must have defective morphine producing gene. --Very few of the people who get on the methadone program make much progress or effort towards getting off of methadone. They just stay on it and the government pays for it. I suppose it could be worse if they just stayed a heroin junkie but it's still annoying.
--Currently Tucson appears to be having an up swing in methamphetamine usage/production. Meth labs pop up in all kinds of places and most of the local pharmacies have been limiting the amount of
psuedophedrine they stock on their shelves because people were stealing it to make meth.
--The alcoholics don't bother me too much but I am suprised that every weekend we get bunches of people on alcohol detox orders. One of the joys of working at night I supose.
--What makes people even try heroin? Besides the fact that you're sticking something of quetionable quality an known harmful side-effects into a vein has there ever been anyone whose life was enhanced by heroin? All the famous people who've been heroin users, heroin was definately not something that helped them achieve anything worth while. If there is anyone who achieved more in their life from using heroin they have to be a statistical anomaly.
