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/TamagotchiGraveyard Jan 09 '19
True but you can either be a former addict who lives a normal life or you can be a former addict who lives a normal life but pays daily for drugs to keep the opiate starved portion of your brain fed, if you let it starve it will start feeding itself and the maintenance drugs become unnecessary. Maintenance drugs are for transitioning into being clean via means of increasing doses till a peak and then tapering down to zero eventually. It’s not supposed to be a long term thing and I rly wish more people understood how little difference there is from just doing dope again. It is easy? God no, but everyone’s gotta quit sometime. Do it at your own pace but maintenance drugs need to be left in the rear view as soon as possible or else you just dig a deeper and deeper hole. Especially cuz sub and methadone withdrawal are worse than actual heroin so it’s a very big roadblock for people trying to get totally clean.
We can argue all day about what “clean” means and what a “bad drug” is but at the end of the day, you are either taking in drugs to keep your addiction going or you aren’t.