Man those people on your ‘why are you straight edge’ poll are really showing their disdain for people who engage with any sort of drug… if I may add, I voted for having a medical restriction (my liver is failing thank youuuu immune system) AND I also take prescription opiate medication to help with pain. Every time I take my painkillers on days where I’m not working so that I can enjoy my hobbies I have complicated feelings about it because anti opiate rhetoric is just EVERYWHERE and it’s like… I just want to have a nice day. Getting over the ‘oh but it can be ADDICTIVE’ stigma is so important and it’s really not different just because I have a prescription. People who are so nasty about drug use for recreation are so stressful to me.
Ikr it's like people have such disdain for addicts, and drug users in general. I get upset about this because while I personally am a very casual user and I spend most of the time sober and am self assured so I can walk people being dicks about it off, but I know addicts and their lives are hard enough without all the stigma piled on top of it. I just wish everyone could be addiction neutral and pro harm reduction but they're so moralistic about it. I wasnt the politest I could have been about people not drinking and having sex because I was trying to keep it light and I know people take things like this really serious and it kinda backfired.
But like I totally know what you mean about the opioid thing. I really think that our society could benefit from being a little more addiction neutral, because yeah sometimes substance dependency does ruin your life, but I'm neurodivergent and I've met people where I think that doing life with drugs is better for them. Like you raise a great point about opioids. They're dangerous and addictive but if you're in pain because of a disability you need pain management. It's not really an option if you want to lead a normal life. There's a lot of heroin addicts who got that way because they needed pain management and their doctors refused them on the basis that they might become addicted, but taking a daily pill to improve your life, while it may be illegal depending on the substance, isn't bad. I bring up my own neurodivergence because I've heard of the same thing with ADHD and stimulants. Most people who have an ADHD diagnosis can get an Adderall prescription, but undiagnosed people and people falling through insurance cracks will sometimes turn to the street version. And it's like those people, both the ones with a script and the ones who are self medicating, should not be forced to live a substandard life because of someone else imagines there's some purity to a life without drugs. The goal should be to get those people the drugs they need in the safest way possible.
And I come down really easy, to the point where I forget to take prescription meds and don't experience any ill effects, but I have a friend who experiences a come down from their adhd meds thats not unlike the comedown ive seen from my other friend who's a meth user, and this friend with the ADHD meds can't function without them. But when the doctor and the pharmacist get them their meds on time they live a perfectly happy fulfilling life. That's what I mean when I say I'm addiction neutral. Most people who get addicted didn't just pick up heroin or whatever one day for shits and giggles. When I fuck around with "highly addictive" substances I make sure I'm in a good place and it's not a problem to drop them. People who develop problems are usually either they're escaping from something or self medicating. The goal for society can't be to never do drugs we've had drugs literally for longer than we've been humans.
I've heard second hand of a study which I haven't gone looking for, I might, because as you can tell this is a bit of a soap box for me, where they gave Heroin addicts a prescribed dose of heroin like you would pick up Percocet for chronic pain at a pharmacy, and because those addicts weren't shooting up mystery amounts and worrying where they were going to get their next hit from so they didn't start rattling and all the other things that make addicts lives hell, they were able to start doing things like holding down jobs. That study should have been a game changer. I want addicts to be able to live, and selfishly I want to be able to go to the drug store when I'm bored and say "one mdma high no fentanyl please" and leave with something to spice up the afternoon. That's like, not a moral failing on my part even though I'm not self medicating I'm just having fun.
The way the war on drugs has ruined drugs, which like, genuinely drugs are sort of magical when you think about it. Not just the fun ones either. Like when I was a baby I had a really bad bladder infection that absolutely would have killed me if I had had that same situation just like 100 years ago, but my mom was able to force a pill down my throat and it went away. Since then I've probably had at least a dozen little things like that that would have killed me dead if someone hadn't invented a chemical that could interact with my body and make it genuinely not a problem. and the fact that we have that for things like chronic pain and we're too afraid to use it because of stigma is so insane. Like god forbid people get high.
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Washing Hands
Washing your hands is easy
all you have to do is get a soap
it can be any soap
some people like their hand soap to be scented
and there are some people that use whatever soap because
they ran out of their hand soap but they still need to wash their hands
Washing your hands is easy
all you have to do is get a soap
and water to make it spread in your hands
lather into your skin so it cleanses the filth
sometimes the filth doesn't come off right away
and you have to do it again.
Washing your hands is easy
all you have to do is get a soap
and water to make it spread in your hands
and do it for 20 seconds and rinse.
Washing your hands is easy
I remember telling you that all the time
and you told me I still had to wash them in order to touch you
I said I do it all the time what makes it different this time?
and you just laughed not really saying anything.
I remember being upset about it
because washing my hands is easy
I do it all the time
Was it something you saw in me?
Was I the disgusting thing you didn't want to touch?
Was everything I did that bothered you?
I still wash my hands no matter what
I wash my hands all the time
I use my favorite hand soap
I use water to make sure it starts foaming and then I rinse after 20 seconds.
I wish I took back those 20 seconds it took to meet you
I wonder if I had break 20 seconds earlier to not meet you
I wonder if I was born 20 seconds later to avoid our timeline
I wonder why you didn't take 20 seconds to reassure me
instead it took you 20 seconds to brush me off.
But washing your hands is easy
you do it all the time
to keep your hands clean
and you take 20 seconds of your time to do it
Washing your hands is easy because you see your friends do it
Then you told me washing your hand is so easy
and you want to do it together but you want to wash my hands
so you can show me how easy it is
and I told you that washing my hands is easy
because I can do it
but can you wash your hands?
That was the same night my hands
felt dirty because of the words I didn't want to say
because you didn't wash my hands the day you told me you were
That was the same night my dirty hands prayed and I asked the creator
why must things be like this?
I didn't get an answer
You told me that you are sorry you couldn't wash my hands
You told me that I do a great job at washing my hands without you
You told me that you don't wash your hands for 20 seconds
I remember telling you washing your hands is easy and you told me
it was
and you wanted to show me how you wash your hands
and what your hands do to get dirty
for you to wash them again.
I still wash my hands without you.
I have done it many times
soon it will just be a habit that won't affect how I view your hands.
The creator reached out to me with an answer
"Washing your hands is easy
all you have to do is get a soap
and water to make it spread in your hands
do it for 20 seconds and rinse
and you have to dry your hands
and once it's dry the world is in your hands."
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