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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 143973" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It takes a lot to kill a junkie. Heroin is actually not that bad for you, if taken PROPERLY. I'm not advocating drug addiction, because the problem with heroin is if you take it to get high, the dose has to keep escalating and the risk of overdose as well as everything else you have to do in order to maintain your supply - THAT is what does the damage. In Britain where heroin is available medically to terminally ill patients - it's supervised, nobody gets high and they can function really well.</p><p></p><p>With illicit drug use, the problems are unexpected because it comes from getting contaminated supply (it's cut with something toxic; or maybe not cut enough, so they overdose) or it comes from sharing needles, or not being clean enough when you inject - all sorts of problems including eventually, collapsing veins, deep bacterial infections (they can damage the kidneys as well as the heart and other internal organs) and any other drugs they try along the way (also to excess) to try and cope when they can't get enough heroin. It's the prostitution, the other risks of the people they mix with - it's all progressively nasty not only for the addict, but for anyone dependent on them or associated with them. You can get dragged down with them so easily, and when all they want is the drug, the shock that they really don't care like they used to, like they should - it's devastating.</p><p></p><p>You're doing the right thing to detach.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 143973, member: 1991"] It takes a lot to kill a junkie. Heroin is actually not that bad for you, if taken PROPERLY. I'm not advocating drug addiction, because the problem with heroin is if you take it to get high, the dose has to keep escalating and the risk of overdose as well as everything else you have to do in order to maintain your supply - THAT is what does the damage. In Britain where heroin is available medically to terminally ill patients - it's supervised, nobody gets high and they can function really well. With illicit drug use, the problems are unexpected because it comes from getting contaminated supply (it's cut with something toxic; or maybe not cut enough, so they overdose) or it comes from sharing needles, or not being clean enough when you inject - all sorts of problems including eventually, collapsing veins, deep bacterial infections (they can damage the kidneys as well as the heart and other internal organs) and any other drugs they try along the way (also to excess) to try and cope when they can't get enough heroin. It's the prostitution, the other risks of the people they mix with - it's all progressively nasty not only for the addict, but for anyone dependent on them or associated with them. You can get dragged down with them so easily, and when all they want is the drug, the shock that they really don't care like they used to, like they should - it's devastating. You're doing the right thing to detach. Marg [/QUOTE]
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