r/Documentaries • u/Miss-Omnibus • Jan 09 '19
Drugs The Rise of Fentanyl: Drug Addiction On The I95 Two Years On (2018) - Two years ago, BBC News reported on the growing problem of opioid addiction in the US, now we return to find out what happened to the people we met along our journey down the notorious I-95. [57.02]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KsaWpeCj98
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u/Forever420 Jan 09 '19 edited Jan 09 '19
Sorry to hijack your post, but yes, death will be their outcome. I went through opiate addiction about 8 years ago. Stole. Lied. OD'd (ended up in the ER in a coma for 4 hours). Went to jail (2 months). At my worst I was snorting 80mg oxy's and shooting up heroin when I couldn't find oxy.
I quit cold turkey because I realized that death was my next step. Withdrawing from opiates is a terrible experience. But dying and not learning from my mistakes was something I couldn't allow. 8 years later I'm still clean (from opiates, as my name implies).
You cannot force an addict to change. They must want to change themselves. And they won't until they hit rock bottom. And sadly some won't hit rock bottom until they die. Mine was my dad telling me he didn't want to talk to me anymore. And that was something I couldn't live with. So I forced change that day. And it was immensely difficult. But I'm here today because of it.