#addiction is not a disease

[bajinns]

hello

#yes. the pikmin addiction is still here #it will never go away #disease actually #pikmin 4 #pikmin louie #pom pikmin #pikmin

[horreurscopes]

this is my brother and i need a shovel to love him (prints)

#death note #meronia #mello dn #near dn #mihael keehl #nate river #nearmello #i have a disease named 2008 yaoi and it is terminal. sorry #their 15 minutes of screentime and cain&abel slay have captivated me #hits that compelling dynamic that canon gives you just enough to extrapolate about spot #you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up / you want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid etc etc etc etc im predictable #i've decided to be proactively problematic and interpret their relationship as a brotherhood but also they kiss. hope this helps #anyway flamecon is approaching so im trying to bang out all the illustrations i didnt finish in the past seven months #is it -- yes it's all nearmello. sorry #as usual have this at 3 am the artist's natural unhinged hour #artists on tumblr #illustration #horreurart

[dylanconrique]

"it's like penguins. penguins, in nature, when one is sick, or when one is very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up. they walk around it until that penguin can walk on it's own. that's kind of what the cast did for me." — matthew perry about his fellow friends.

#*and this is icarly! #friends #chandler bing #matthew perry #friends lovers and the big terrible thing #THIS!!!!! ☝️☝️ is why friends will reign supreme as one of the best television shows of all time #NOT ONE OF THEM JENNIFER COURTNEY DAVID LISA OR MATT EVER GAVE UP ON HIM #they didn't condemn him for his addiction or pass judgement on him in any way #they ALL realized that this is a real disease!!!! #ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION ARE DISEASES!!!!!! #and for them to realize that when addiction wasn't so easily understood by most back in the 90s/early 2000s is SO. HEARTWARMING. #they all could have just as easily excluded him from the group when they started to catch on that he had a problem #most other actors in the industry probably would #but no not them #they're family 💗

[nativehueofresolution]

6x17 "Walk Like A Man" / 6x19 "The Second Coming"

#the sopranos #tony soprano #carmela soprano #christopher moltisanti #sooo much to ponder. #firstly how tony is like it's a disease! it's inherited! for himself but not for christopher. only he gets that privilege #second there's the fact dickie is carmela's first cousin. and so she actually have some addiction/depression issues on her side #but she very pointedly feels aj's issues have come from tony #and then thirdly... how in both these cases tony feels attacked #because he identifies so strongly with dickie as his hero #it's like chris saying this is tony's fault too. the guy he modeled himself after was Flawed #fell short of tony's idea of Manhood #none of it was ever real it was all bullshit #just like how he feels his bloodline is poison #kaitlin speaks

[swagging-back-to]

it is not controversial to say that if you cannot finacially, emotionally provide for a child and/or your genetics would lead to them suffering then you should not have said child.

#anti natalism #anti natalist #antinatalism #antinatalist #seriously the amount of people who scream eugenics. #you have no fucking clue what eugenics is #you are screaming your support for children being born into already negelctful and abusive situations just for your own liberalism. #And guess what--animals in the wild who have genetic disorders dont get to pass on their faulty genes either #it isnt rude for me to say it. it's reality #and if you cant accept reality than thats even more reason you should nto be allowed to breed #i myself have endless genetic predisposures. schizophrenia diabetes heart disease arthritis. #even if i had the finances and wanted a child i know it would be COMPLETELY unethical to gamble with their life. #you all have gambling addictions and are control freaks

[uncle-festering]

Sketchbook doodles :)

#tf2 #team fortress two #tf2 sniper #tf2 pyro #tf2 engineer #sniper is suffering from what i call the jigen disease. where i always draw him smoking and side profile bcause i associate him with jigen #honestly same character different font. both are gunman. both wear a hat. its enough for my brain to give sniper a nicotine addiction #fester posts

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Complain about booktok all you want but the self righteous AUDACITY you have to have to diagnose strangers on the internet with an addiction is ridiculous. I highly doubt that you, oh so pompous moral crusader against booktok, have the qualifications and knowledge to officially provide a diagnosis for anyone but you sure as hell have the qualifications to be an asshole and trivialize something like addictions.

#booktok #anti booktok #a lot of you who complain about booktok are just as annoying if not more than the people on there #calling everyone who reads smutty books a 🌽 addict is stupid and I refuse take anything you say seriously #addicitions are debilitating diseases you dumbass motherfucker #get that fucking word out of your mouth and actually learn what it means #literature #addiciton

[aroninshonour]

Quick Question...

Anyone willing to write me an adorable angst w/ a happy ending Glacier story that involves the Hanahaki Disease?- I've kinda been stuck in Glaciershipping and then the Hanahaki as well soooo y e a h

No I don't really care about length, just want a Angst + Happy Ending + Hanahaki + Glacier story because I am obsessed right now and need some of the stuffs :3

Thank you if anyone decides to do this for me you are greatly appreciated ☺️🧡🤍🏵

#Ninjago #ninjago glacier #Glaciershipping #hanahaki disease #Fanfic #Please someone I need help with this current trope addiction 🫡 #ninjago zane #ninjago cole #🧡🤍🏵

[macbethz]

I think something happened when addiction was reclassified in the public consciousness as a disease in combination with serophobia/ableism that is not necessarily better than how addiction was understood before, where rather than being viewed as a bad person the addict isn’t even viewed as a person at all but some kind of infected thing, a parasitic untouchable.

#like Emil said the leftism leaving peoples body’s when they’re asked to be normal about addicts #warlock wartalks #I dont tbink the disease model is inherently true either but that’s another thing

[bugmangaka]

Made some Creek button pins! They're on Etsy and Kofi. I've been feeling discouraged lately and really wanted to draw something loud and joyful. Cringe culture is dead! Let's just celebrate being who we are!

#i hc that both of them are neurodivergent #craig being autistic and tweek having every disease (autism adhd ocd and a meth addiction... just like me fr minus the meth part) #south park #fanart #tweek #craig #sp creek

[bruqh]

okay idk if sephie has said what sam’s sexuality or anything is but having a loser ex bf AND chronic falling in love with your best friend syndrome… it’s lesbian behaviour frankly

#persephone valentine #sam nightingale #dimension 20 #the seven d20 #d20 #im literally so fucking addicted to this show and these besties #and i love that every time i watch i find myself relating to them in new ways #as a lesbian who also suffers from a past with weird men and chronic falling for my bestie disease #this is my headcanon for sam #i simply believe it to be true #she definitely had nonplatonic feelings for penelope like theres no way she #and she clearly has a crush on zelda i will speak more on this later #anyways #i have hcs for all of them #OH ALSO they scream queer friend group so u know they all flirt with each other non stop

[strangestcase]

Im so full of Jekyll and Hyde analysis yum!

#addiction as a reflection of imperialist anxieties... you hate the 'foreign' products yet can't live with them... #you project your own rot onto the racialized Other be it the Chinese the Arab or the 'pale and weird little man' #and you are complicit in the disease even when you try to cure it!

[signofthestriking]

I have this odd childhood memory of asking my mom if it was possible to get addicted to cough drops and she kinda explained the differences between a substance dependency and a psychological addiction, and she had no idea I was asking because of an edgy and highly explicit red medic fanfic i had stumbled upon

#the childhood experience of growing up without any adult *actually* monitoring one's online behavior is truly an interesting one #for further context i did not know what tf2 was at the time #i was going through a phase #so i just assumed it was referring to a creepypasta i'd never heard of before #and i had just learned what lemons were and was morbidly curious so guess what i looked up #its still up too as far as i know #not really my cup of tea tbh #like not cause the smut was bad theres just one hangup i personally cant let slide anymore #y/n would have gotten some kind of disease that's all im gonna say on that #shitpost #tw nsft #tw smut #smut fanfiction #smutfic #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 fans im sorry #smut fic #tf2 smut #tw addiction

[centers-against-disease-control]

@centers-for-disease-control Notice me you fuck 💥💥

#centers against disease control #centers for disease control #addiction treatment centers

[enbycrip]

Been listening to a podcast with an episode on how the NHS establishment responded with opioid prescriptions controls following the discovery of the Shipman murders. Then a really interesting bit on how the US hadn’t had that in the late 1990s-early 2000s and thus kept prescribing strong opioids.

The original statisticians who noticed the “opioid crisis” in the US noticed it as accidental overdoses alongside alongside suicides and liver failure as skyrocketing causes of death amongst white USians aged 45-60. They referred to the trio as “Deaths of Despair”.

And I thought about just *how much* I’ve heard about the “Opioid Crisis” in two ways; to shame “addictive behaviour” and “junkie tendencies” amongst the poor in the US (with some particularly horrendous bits of racism in there) in the general news and culture, and from within the disabled community as it’s become basically impossible for chronically ill and disabled people to get the pain control they need to do anything, or just to live not in agony. And I’ve seen that attitude making it to the UK too - the idea that people using opioid medication for pain control and to enable us to do *some* things are clearly “addicts” or “drug seekers”.

I’ve never heard the term “Deaths of Despair” before now. And it’s *really* good copy. I’ve been a copywriter enough to know that when I hear it. It should have been all over the media.

So why isn’t it?

Is it just perhaps because it’s much easier to just make it impossible for disabled people to access medication that gives some quality of life and demonise poor people as “addicts” and “junkies” than to address the fact that the US healthcare system in particular is not fit for purpose, people living in poverty generally don’t have health insurance, and thus if they don’t work, they can’t afford to live? Let alone access healthcare? So so many people have zero choice but to find a way to work through any injury or illness, and strong opioids are one way to do so? And that because real wages have been falling in relation to housing and food prices, unstable temp work has become the only work available to millions of people, the need to work ridiculous hours in low paid jobs that destroy even formerly abled bodies, the number of people this applies to has only been growing since 2008?

Is it perhaps *not* coincidence that the only one that has a reasonably “quick fix” - make it nightmarishly difficult to prescribe opioid medication and up the War On Drugs - is focused on while the others are buried?

Drug (including alcohol) addiction is a symptom - sometimes of illness or disability where other treatments aren’t accessible to that person, or don’t even exist, sometimes of a life that isn’t bearable without them. Which usually means exploitation, inequality, marginalisation, isolation, lack of access to education, lack of access to a supportive community, and trauma. That can lead to ODs, suicide and liver disease.

Isn’t it interesting how those facts aren’t being focused on?

#disabled #disability #disableism #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #unfit us healthcare system #deaths of despair #societal disableism #addiction is a disease and you can fuck off if you don’t agree

[quickhacked]

new cyberpunk blorbo has a name a picrew and a pinterest board it's so over (we're so back)

#personal #another one of arasaka's broken toys who ended up in the gutter and now he's one of vulture's bloodhounds #loyal to a fault. craves intimacy of any kind. addicted to praise and punishment. 'ex' catholic. but also a loser #scared of many things. hates fighting and hates blood and hates being violent but is also addicted to the thrill of it all #and then he comes home and is called a good boy for it which is what he wants the most. so he kills and kills and kills #he's got a cybernetic jaw that's only cybernetic from the inside but he can unhinge that whole thing #and the cyberware on his neck opens up with it. just a huge cybernetic maw with rows and rows of cybernetic teeth #he can literally tear people's face off with it. and he has. he hates it!! but he does it anyway because he has ISSUES #his name is beckett ^_^ he has every disease