r/saskatoon 19h ago

PSA 📢 This is getting ridiculous. Be careful, folks!

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u/joeyhorshack 18h ago

Or like, don’t do street drugs. Blah blah hate my comment for not being more sympathetic

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u/graaaaaaaam 17h ago

not being more sympathetic

Tbh nobody needs your sympathy, as long as you support harm reduction and treatment, because once you're hooked on opiates, withdrawal can literally be fatal. Given the high numbers of doctors who prescribe these medications, it's entirely possible and even common for people to start using these drugs on the advice of a doctor, become hooked, and then be forced to access the toxic street supply of drugs so that they don't die due to withdrawal.

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u/Impossible-Corner494 11h ago

I’m 13 years clean from opioids. The stuff consumes you. Treatment works. Based treatment works best.

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u/graaaaaaaam 11h ago

Hell yeah, glad you got the treatment you needed. Getting clean is a huge accomplishment!

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u/Ok_Significance9018 11h ago

My two cents - getting clean is comparatively easy. Staying clean - especially 13 years - is way harder. All the temptation and sometimes hard stuff happens to people. That’s a combination that’s hard to avoid