Re: WHY? (Re: One-pot dish)

Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-11-28 3:19 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-28, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2024-11-28 10:22 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-28, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

 
I don't know the root cause of the drug problems, aside from
stupidity of the users.  That is different than healthcare
for others.

 
Pain.  Emotional and physical pain.  When life is intolerable,
there's always drugs.
 

 
 
Some people just like to get high and some think it is cool. I am
sure you know several people who have had a procedure or an
injury of some type and raved about the great pain medication.
There are a lot of reports about addicts who started down the
road to addiction with prescription pain medication, as if it is
the fault of the doctors and the drug companies. The part they
skip is that it was usually someone else's prescription.

 
And some people have such shitty lives, are abused by their parents,
etc., that going around in a drugged stupor is preferable to knowing
what's happening to them.

 
There are lots of people who had horrible lives and who turned out
well and never got seriously into drugs or alcohol.  I have some
friends who overcame a pretty hard live. They are brother and sister
raised in a biracial families in the 50s in a city that was about 98%
white.  Their mother died when they were young and the father was so
broken up and depressed he committed suicide. The kids were farmed
out to different families. Those two went to one family and two
younger sisters went with another family.  Both of those had mental
health problems. One was schizophrenic and ended up committing
suicide in her 30s.  The brothers wife once remarked to me how well
her husband and his sister turned out given the troubles they had
been through. She said they had such a bad life that she cries when
she tells people about it.
 
Meanwhile, as a teen I became friends with a guy who lived around the
corner. The father didn't have much education but was a foreman at
GM. His mother worked for the school board.  They lived in a nice
house and they kept him well financed. He was a rebel He grew his
hair long and got into drugs. There was no abuse. He was popular at
school and always had beautiful girlfriends. He was the one who got
into heavy drugs. Apparently he died of an overdose in hi 40s.

Sorry to hear all that Dave but glad some came through well.  We don't
get to choose our parents so sadly, just have to deal with them.  Some
don't come out very well.  Some who should, nonsensically don't.