Posted by Lou Pilder on February 25, 2014, at 21:35:01
In reply to What kind of life would you give a heroin addict? » Lou Pilder, posted by SLS on February 25, 2014, at 14:34:07
> > to give to an addicted person a substitute addiction?
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> Try walking a few steps in the shoeless feet of a homeless heroin addict who sells her body daily to get her next fix. Suboxone allows many of these people to enter the workforce and build for themselves a life of sobriety and independence.
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> - ScottScott,
You wrote,[...Suboxone allows many of these people (heroin addicts) to enter the workforce and build themselves a life of sobriety and independence...].
The strategy of giving an addict their drug is an old strategy and is used today. And it could make sense in some thinking, for by giving the addict their drug, they do not have to commit crime or take the risk of disease from contaminated needles and do not have to suffer withdrawal from the drug. But what about as to what could happen to the addict's body from taking the drug as time runs? The effects of taking opium are well-known. The opium dens in parts of Asia could tell one that. And if one wants to be free from the drug, is there an easy way out? And if the addiction to heroin is substituted with an addiction to Suboxone, this is not a cure for heroin addiction at all, for if one would then want to be free from Suboxone, there could be a withdrawal even worse than the withdrawal from heroin and the life-effects from taking Suboxone could be the same as from heroin.
You see, Suboxone is an old drug, a drug that is a chemically altered form of the chemical in the poppy plant, like morphine. Heroin is a chemically altered form of morphine. So giving a heroin addict Suboxone could be considered to be giving them a different form of the poppy plant's chemical that stops the withdrawal just as if you gave the addict heroin. So the addict taking Suboxone can go to work without withdrawal just as if the addict took heroin. The Suboxone can be obtained in place of heroin, but there are still the effects of Suboxone to be had when the addict wants to be free from that drug.
Now when one wants to be free from heroin, taking another drug that has chemicals from the poppy plant in it, could push them further into addiction, for when they want to be free from the Suboxone, they have addicted themselves further from taking more narcotic chemicals. Now they could have a greater addiction and a greater withdrawal to deal with. And little by little, the drug dehumanizes the taker of the drug and they could exit life and be a dehumanized shell of a person, loosing their sex life and thyroid issues and osteoporosis and much more...
Lou
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