official-andy-warhol:
That’s right, pour 6 ounces of cocaine and 20 vitamin tablets in your coffee and you’ll never have to sleep again.
billdecker:
Trainspotting (1996) dir. Danny Boyle
Personality, I mean, that’s what counts, right? That’s what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like heroin, I mean heroin’s got a great fucking personality.
outofthefogintothesmog:
sammiroo:
mens-rights-activia:
It’s 2018 and literally people can’t get it in their head that drug addiction is a disease.
It results from a permanently altered brain that isn’t functioning properly. The brain’s reward centers are messed up. There are studies that even show that the person’s DNA is affected. Their personality is affected. Their actions and behavior is affected. It’s a real fucking disease.
Yeah, it’s easy to say “well their choice to do drugs got them there, so why should I care?”
Well, this argument can be used for a lot of diseases. “Well it’s their choice to not get the hpv vaccine so why should I care that they got cervical cancer.” “Well it’s their choice to go hiking so why should I care that a tick bit them and they got lymes disease?” “Well it’s their choice to eat fatty foods so why should I care that they have heart disease?” Etc.
Chances are, we all have done something that is detrimental to our health at some point in their lives. It doesn’t mean if it results in a disease, we are less deserving of help or compassion because we made choices that contributed to the disease.
There are many reasons why people start doing drugs in the first place. Sometimes it’s a coping mechanism, sometimes it’s self medication, and or sometimes it’s out of sheer curiousity. All of these reasons still warrant compassion and aid.
Shaming and vilifying addicts is not the way to help them. If you really truly cared you would be trying to create a world that is better for addicts to thrive (voting and supporting measures for affordable housing, minimum wage increases, better access to education and childcare, better access to mental healthcare, universal healthcare, etc) as well as actively fighting the conditions (poverty, abuse, lack of resources, inaccess to metal healthcare, etc.) that create new addicts.
Absolutely! In addition, substance abuse is very frequently found in people with other mental health issues as well, and people from vulnerable populations. The stereotype that people who use drugs must be lazy and of so-called “poor character” is simply not true, and is incredibly harmful during the current opioid epidemic. When so much stigma is tied to drug use, people from all walks of life are much less likely to pursue treatment and safer consumption methods.
Also, institutionalized racism goes hand in hand with many of these negative attitudes. When you have violence occurring towards particular groups over many generations, it isn’t so difficult to understand why addiction can be more prevalent. To have compassion in this situation is to also examine a social and political system that has created it, and has continually contributed to it.
Far too many people who are non violent drug offenders are in jail rather than in any sort of treatment usually due to the misconception that it’s easier to put them away then to try to get them help. The publicly funded programs are loaded with people who are looking for shelter not help for their addiction issues. We as a nation pay the price for not having a system that is effective in selecting the right candidates for these free treatment programs. It’s sad that we can do so little to help the people who are willing to change.
When I was first getting into Bowie a few years ago, I found the Cracked Actor doc but I could never watch it - there was no subtitles for it anywhere, and my English simply wasn’t good enough to understand a whole film without it
But in the last week, my youtube page made a video recommendation of a Cracked Actor video and it occurred to me that now I’m fluent in English and I could watch it, so I did it yesterday ~~
It’s kind sad because he was in so, so much drugs and it’s pretty obvious how bad it was for him (and it would only get worst in the next few years), but at the same time it’s kind of…. fascinating? I loved the way it was filmed. The shots, the musical sequences… I don’t always enjoy docs, but this one felt very personal and good, I’m glad I fiinally saw it
hornyheartsclub:
The return of the Thin White Duke, throwing darts in lovers’ eyes
