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December 31, 2023

Fentanyl, Opiates, Drugs

Fentanyl, Opiates, Drugs

From the authority on the generation who questioned authority.

The climate of America today, its fixation with the computer and iPhone culture, is dumbing down the youth of our country. It is one of the reasons, along with untrue advertising and sports fixation, that is causing the Fentanyl, Opiates, and speed addictions, producing suicides and OD deaths. As an authority on drugs and drug use, I can tell you what addiction is all about. I am 80 years old now and have been experimenting with and taking most forms of the available drugs since 1967 when I was 24. I have never shot up any drugs, but smoked and ingested them in every other way around the world. Addiction has many causes, but it manifests in two distinctive ways--physical addiction, emotional addiction, or both together. The causes are the need for pain relief, and pain can be both physical like back pain, or emotional like mistreatment at home or bullying. Loneliness is a common cause of emotional pain these days. Covid is responsible for much of that today, yet relying on the computer or cell phone is now creating most of the loneliness. First, people can lie on those devices much more easily than in person, and even the truth is less believable if you can’t experience a person's eyes, mouth, and gestures. Does he or she move closer and reach for your hand from afar? Painkillers from a bottle may soothe your back, but does it kill the anxiety of mental pain or does it muddle your thinking to make you feel that you are happy, only to create a bigger problem of the money to keep the habit or to remember if you have taken one or four pills. Jail, homelessness, and death are much more of a pain than not having a sex partner or new dress or a shiny new and “cooler” iPhone. If you have an addictive personality or physiology, then you must, even against your nature of secrecy and seclusion, reach out to family or authorities. Break out and get to know new “good” people in the store, on the street, or in school. Get away from your old habitats and friends. Don't be ashamed to admit your addiction, there is more shame in lying on the floor covered in your own vomit and excretions.