YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

How do i find him? Is he on insta

Yes he's Dr.alishrooms. Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.

I would like to know from those who have solved PTSD and anxiety, if they have solved it definitively and how to understand what quantity of psilocybin to take and when, for how long. And can you really heal without having an addiction? Thanks to everyone for helping me understand, I want to understand if it's something that can help me solve the problem (I have c-ptsd)

I was horrifically depressed since childhood. It was relentless. I assumed it would ultimately end me somehow. About twelve years ago I randomly accepted the offer from a friend of a few doses of mushrooms. I did them two consecutive nights alone. First night was pretty mild. The second night? Wow. I saw my depression from every angle, realized much. Next day: depression totally gone. Never came back, never coming back. It's like it's a forest far away I can remember, and could probably find again with enough effort, but it has zero impact on anything in my life or mind. They honestly saved my life and improved it immensely. I never did them again, either. I wish there was a good, organized way to administer them to people who would benefit from them.

I might not know you, but I'm so damn proud of you!

You are a strong person. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Fantastic... it's hard but keep it up

great job babe!!! we’re all so proud of you!!!

@@LSK2Klots of reasons, bad childhood, mental illness, financial issues and many more

I'm kicking as well. Next spring I'm growing my own poppies and just gonna drink a much safer poppie tea

​@@benjamenchiids7418I don't recommend that, what's worked for me is to quit all recreational substances.

My father was severely disabled for twenty years. Then he volunteered for cutting edge surgery (pardon the pun). The doctors who performed his surgery had never done one before. They had to open him up and close him up six times before they got it right... In between surgeries he required lots and lots of pain management medication. This was in 1950 so the only med. that they had available was morphine. Part of the way through this he realized that he was addicted to the morphine. He stopped cold turkey. They weren't married at the time, but the woman who later became his wife was one of his nurses. She had served in the European Theater of Operations during WWII as a lab technician, and when things got really bad/really busy, she worked in the trauma unit. After coming home she went to school and later was the head of the county trauma center where we lived. She told me that watching my father kick morphine was the most horrific thing that she had ever seen...

POPPY TEA IS NOT SAFER, the dose range between seed pods is so high that it can still be a crap shoot, you may be pulling a bullet out of the gun but you are still playing Russian roulette, there are safer alternatives that can still work if you need to ween off however Im pretty sure in this context Im not supposed to say the name of the tree which is still legal in many places, please stay safe and be careful with your doses @@benjamenchiids7418

God that's rough, good job on making it this far! You're doing great ❤❤

I am so sorry for your loss. Sending you love ❤

I absolutely second this OP. I'm so sorry for your loss and that a doctor caused this fate. Are you in America?

Have a cousin that has been off/on using for over a decade. I'll give junkies shit anyday. People who are staying clean and getting/keeping their shit together, Good job. Everyone around you thanks you.

Thanks my dude! Sorry for your loss, stay safe!

My mom is still kicking, but she went through the same crap. All these opiates being prescribed, but the docs don't help to get off of them. It was when the insurance company came at the doc for all this that she was just cut off. What do you do when that happens and your body is broken? You find alternatives. It is more than a shame for this to have happened. It wasn't her fault. And all of her who loved her suffer. 💔 It is these stories that need to be told. Too many still believe this is a choice. Many of us started because there was no help for chronic pain issues. I fully understand it more now that I went through it, and so is my hubby. We will always support those who need help.

It's painful with headphones, it sounds like they are disconnecting

Keep it up!

How so, do you crave it? Seems like a year should be enough time for your brain to rewire

@@DeliciousDogMeat Addiction isn't just chemical; it's desperation not to feel absolutely worthless. Dismantling that tangle of minor to major trauma, social stigma, genetic factors, along with the impending doom floating over all our heads, takes way longer than a year.

Keep going. Just keep going forward

Hey man! Congratulations. I hope you're still going strong.

Great job ❤

You can do this. Praying for you 🙏

How are you now?

Praying for your continued sobriety!! Hope you are carrying on strong!

That is a magnificent feat and an inspiring milestone! ❤ Wishing you all the best in your continued sobriety.

What's your opinion on the patches? For legitimate medical uses. It helps my rare disease. All these deaths are from people using it illegal it seems. But I'm lumped in even though I'm not out there snorting fent..

Bruh I know people that shoot 100-300mg at a time. When you get a tolerance it doesn't even work anymore lmao

never get a traumatic injury if ur a fent addict lmaooo. i had a motorcycle accident and when they gave me fent in the ambulance it did literally nothing

@@lxLanarchyxlYour are getting some highly cut product.

@@kstreet7438That frustrates me too. My mother and grandmother both used fentanyl patches and the misinformation is infuriating. My mother had a lot of scar tissue and just pain from 20 years of fighting cancer, my grandmother was just old plus joint replacements+arthritis. Fentanyl patches were far safer and more effective at taking the edge off of pain for them than popping pills. Pills were strictly for break through only pain and my mom’s Vicodin consumption plummeted after 1. Getting pain pump and again after 2. Fentanyl patches. The whole “I touched money and I went to the ER from a fentanyl OD” makes me want to throat punch them. Your skin literally CANNOT absorb ANYTHING that fast. I’m glad you are able to manage your pain. I hope that we can find a non-addictive and safe option for pain in the future so pain sufferers don’t bear the brunt of the “war on opioids/drug” attempted management.

Hey I know this is like , stupid to ask but I have some questions, I also grew up in a family of addicts and I've never so much as tried a beer because I'm terrified of becoming one to , I was thinking of trying weed to help with my anxiety and just because it seems fun, I'm still hella nervous tho so like, any tips? Maybe I just shouldn't try it or? IDK I know it's dumb but I'm too nervous to try it without asking for advice, I know it's only weed but some part of me is still terrified I could become addicted to it like any other drug

MJ does nothing for real pain. That being said, opioids for anything short of late stage cancer or a snapped in half back or femur is CRAZY. I'll add toothache to the list The Chinese/Mexican fentanyl is so much more than what pharmacutical companies are making. Even with all the resolve in the world you will have withdrawals that makes death look like the only respite. I smoked herb for 15+ years. Only way it's a pain killer is if you trade it for pills. OP has no clue how painful life can be. If you're reading this and dealing with addiction, you can do it. Don't be ashamed to seek medical help

Try kratom it can kill the pain like an opiod and even gets people of of heroin and fentanyl since it treats the symptoms but isn't addictive it's also still legal and comes from a tree in asia... and contrary to many opiods it can at the same time also work as a little boost since it has many active substances. It's related to the coffee plant btw

​@@TeresaCastillo-us9wfi would suggest you go speak to a mental health professional. Maybe the root of your issues can be addressed without any medication at all. If not, a professional would be the best person to talk to when it comes to choosing the right medication for you. Never just self medicate. Especially if you're particularly vulnerable to addiction (idk if that's the right way to say it, not a native speaker 😅) it's very easy to cross the line into addiction or use other substances. I used to smoke weed and drink to deal with my issues. Luckily I'm out of that now but i spent 8 years of my life almost constantly under the influence, 8 years i will never get back... be careful, and have a great day.

@@TeresaCastillo-us9wf being nervous is perfectly valid, and weed can have ill effect on some mental health conditions. CBD oils on its own i've heard a lot of good things about for anxiety and inflammatory conditions and does not contain enough THC to cause much trouble. if possible I always would say talk to your doctor about it and get their input with your own medical issues in mind.

It is not the drugs. It is the pain. How was he hurt? Medical schools in America teach - addiction is a symptom of PTSD. Dr. Lonny Shavelson found that 70% of female heroin addicts had been sexually abused in childhood.

I share your story. Keep your head up and remember him clean, maybe from early life.

I wish I could of talked to my brother one more time. I regret breaking all ties with him because you can know it's coming but when it happens it breaks you.

@@msimon6808😂😂😂😂

Where are u from?

Interesting, I was studying to be a PA 2000-2004 and was still being told that pain was the “fifth vital sign” and we “must treat pain”. Guess it took a bit for the news to get around… 🤔

Yes, so then people who are in great pain don't get the medication needed to find relief, so they have to get it from illegal drugs. That is what drove my cousin to it and ultimately his death.

@@juuso4148 university of Washington in Seattle.

@@misspat7555 I'm currently in nursing school and they still teach pain being an unofficial vital. But treating pain doesn't necessarily mean jumping to opioids first, although as a nurse I'd only be filling provider orders anyway, so if an opioid were prescribed that's probably what I'd give... the book answer is to try to reposition them or something first, as if that would help much 🤷🏼‍♂️

I remember my pericarditis. Nowhere as serious as your accident but it was painful. It really magical. I was in a world of pain and the Doctor stabs my belly with morphine. At almost a snap of your fingers you go from a world of pain too, "hey i am feeling really good now, can i go home?". Strong Opiates have a place. When you are in a world of pain these are miracle drugs.

But that's the problem with fentanyl. It's not a bad drug. But it should never have been released to the general public. The only reason it was allowed was because of capitalism because any average person would have correctly predicted what would happen if this fast release opioid was released to the general public. In a hospital, in a medical facility where the practitioner is administering the drug, it would have been easier to control. You have to count the doses. You have to restrict access. There's a sheet that tracks these drugs so there's inventory control. It's a lot harder to crack that system and most people aren't that good at it. The person who could crack that system would have to be working in that facility and they'd have to find somebody who would be willing to risk their license to distribute a drug like this. not many people will do that. I consider the Sackler family to be guilty of mass murder and harm to humans. They knew this drug was highly addictive. They deliberately lied to the medical professionals. For what? Capitalism and making a profit. If a good god existed, justice would have been mete out.. Instead they got a slap on the wrist. (I don't care about shareholders or employees. This had to be a punishment so hard that every other pharma group never even approached that red line.) In addition, I consider the politicians who deliberately funded the war on drugs to have caused irreparable harm. We should have studied marijuana and treated drug addicts for other drugs as the victims they were. Instead, it was racialized and criminalized. We lost decades of data and research that could have helped deal with fentanyl. And for what? The war on black people? (I remember how punitive the conservatives were when it was crack cocaine. It was clearly a racial pogram dressed up in American white hysteria.) And think about it.. we criminalized the sale of drugs like crack cocaine. Now, you get it via a prescription. So clearly it wasn't the dangerous instant high drug that the conservatives claimed it was. In fact, most people are remarkably immune to these drugs. It's not as magically addictive as fentanyl is. We can look at drug use with the Vietnam War and how it didn't persist once the soldiers came back. (I mean, there are always a few who will slip through. We're all special and unique organisms. But this lie about how addictive a drug was didn't help. I don't know if you remember DARE, but it helped create more drug users than prevent. Why? I think it was the lying. A kid was pressured into using some drug. it didn't really do the harm he was told it would do. He wondered what else the DARE officer had lied about ..and went to test them out.) oh.. and I winced when i read your accident. Shins are so sensitive. It's just skin and bones and nerves. I'm glad you had a drug to ease the pain. I'm glad you're better. (But please.. don't fall for the conservative hype on this stuff. Hysteria and fear are poor means to effectively assess a situation and to solve it if it is a problem. I mean, the naivete of this group is heart breaking. They trusted their doctor who was lied to .. and the Sacklers got away with it. I know who they're going to donate to.) I refuse to take opioids. It has to be administered via a medical professional in the hospital or I just have to handle the suck. It's OTC because I have a healthy respect for how dangerous these drugs are. (Think about it.. it's a medication to trick your brain. I kind of like my brain the way it is.)

I was given fentanyl after a high speed mountain bike crash. Effective but I declined subsequent suggestions I take it for pain relief. Dislike the feel it gave, and also disliked oxytocin. Did not know about the respiratory impacts - I had 5 broken ribs and a collapsed lung ( and other injuries).

I was given fentanyl in the ER for an extremely infected abscess. I told them I didn't want morphine because it always made me so nauseated after surgery. They told me that fentanyl usually didn't cause as much nausea because it was synthetic. Idk how much the dosage was, but my respirations/02% kept going too low, causing the vitals machine to go off. The pain relief was wonderful, but the euphoric properties scared me, my first thought was, "I can almost understand why nurses cheek fentanyl patches."

Congratulations my guy

That’s all it takes for people doing drugs for fun they just have to survive until they get bored Now for the people using opioids and opiates for chronic pain that doctors refuse to treat because they don’t want the boogieman on their prescription pad or that don’t have health insurance For them we just have to mature as a society too bad for those people

Well done on making the tough decision to quit, and actually following through with action! Quitting opiates is horribly difficult, but can be achieved as you have proven! I'm fairly sure that you won't be able to honestly think of any downside to quitting!! Keep up with it, and ALWAYS Avoid that first hit!

I appreciate you both fr 🙏 it took well over a decade of that life to finally get there but I’m grateful I did, but I’ll always have work to do on myself as I’m far from perfect.

You go through a lot of pain but can also learn many lessons from an experience like that

You would have to take away people's money (dealers and cartels) and they wouldn't like that so it will never happen. The best you can do is heal the sick and teach others of the dangers.

As long as unconstitutional drug prohibition remains in place, it’s not going away.

Even with drugs legalized people are just miserable and addicted. Making it legal will stop the prison system from being so lucrative, but it would just pass the ball to taxpayers in another way. The cartels make too much and they lobby enough to stop it from happening. Unless they get a deal made so that when it does become above-board they are the ones profiting.@@huemann7637

Cartels, CHN, and XiXiPi are more powerful than any pathetic medical emergency service setup. And they're certainly far more influential than "law enforcement", lol. 😂 If cartels and XiXiPi want to stop making money, maybe they'll stop producing and dealing. But that ain't gonna happen! It is what it is.

Yeah all you had to do to see this coming was watch Baltimore went from having the best heroin in the world to only fentanyl

From the same area. I'm so sorry.

MY GOD! 🥺

Struth, that's _terrible!_ I'm so, so sorry for you - and them. What a horrifying family disaster.

This drug is scourge on humanity. I'm sorry for your loss.

My condoleces brother..stay strong❤

Doesn't sound like it was "accidental" at all.

@@Racistobama I hardly think they went out with the express purpose of overdosing on Fentanyl and dying. Use your brain.

I don't know,I can think of some human beings who probably deserve it.

@@Racistobama no you're right. It wasn't an accident, someone put fentanyl in the mix on purpose. Someone did that on purpose to another person knowing it could kill someone. It's worse than an accident. It's manslaughter.

It's our inner demons, the demons we keep secret and hidden that can do this and take you. I'm so sorry for your loss ❤

Bless your Heart ❤️

@traybern I believe you are confusing the Pharmacist with the Pharmaceutical Company that dictate the prices.

Think of it this way though. Between giving a pill that you wish you wouldn't give---- and finding out someone died because they couldn't stand the pain or mental anguish anymore... sometimes the pill is the lesser evil. Chronic pain is no joke. People commit suicide due to chronic pain. In the long run opiates doesn't "fix" the root cause, but it can help give some time for the person to find more long term solutions--- provided they're correctly followed by a doctor etc. I see the same thing with mental anguish and benzos.

Opioids are still medicine and people DO need them, no matter how much modern medicine might try to deny it. You aren't hurting them. People overdosing on legitimate pharmaceuticals is rare these days, thanks to excessive governmental oversight (imo).

21 years after a 6 year career with junk and oxy and I think that to myself everytime I hear another local one has gone, I've lost count. One of my friends who got caught up in it but got sober just lost his 18 year old son to it after taking a pill of "molly" and if that isn't tragic then I don't know what is. We got out just in time my friend, I wouldn't dare pick up now.🙅🏼

@Switcharoo12 That's the ultimate nightmare it's horrible its happening. I say that myself that I'd never touch it today knowing it's so deadly. I also feel that anguish and insanity of withdrawing and wanting just to feel better nevermind get high. It's a dark place alot don't escape sadly because it really forces you against yourself.

A heroin addict who can't spell heroin. Suspicious.

Damn back when it was real dope. The fentanyl stuff sucks. You don't get the euphoria or anything strictly maintanence

The govt has to get all the money they can and if it makes the populace easier to control, I’m sure it’s a magical feeling for them.

We lose like another 120,000 to tobacco every year than fentanyl

@@gunthersman5672 fentanyl is less euphoric than other opioids but also has 4-12 times less duration depending on the person nobody wants fentanyl but that’s what’s out there if we made drugs legal 90% of people would stick to codeine which you basically can’t OD on

Sorry friend. My friend just lost his 15 yr old daughter 3 weeks ago same thing. It’s a plague

Your friend failed as a parent.

I’m so sorry for your loss. Good friends are hard to come by, and they leave such an emptiness when they’re gone. It wasn’t his fault, and he certainly didn’t deserve it (two things that I often hear about people who use drugs)

So ur mad that he bought street drugs and got the wrong thing and died? Well those dealers are just pernicious aren't they? Perhaps you should focus your anger on them!

@traybern I've seen you talk mad shit, full of disrespect, on many commenters here... what's your problem? If you don't know this kind of loss then shut your mouth.

I visited Vancouver exactly 1 time in my life in 2016... rolled into town late and got a hotel at East Hastings. Got robbed the next morning. Car broken into -- broken window... they stole my trekking gear. So I'm sure my badass tent still hosts loser addicts from time to time and I'm sure the loser Canadian cops have found a few dead ones in it... believe me fentanyl is your friend -- soon you'll be able to hang out in China town in Vancouver and feel completely safe!

@traybern Your mother didn't think SO!!😭😭😭

It’s weird though.. he made this before, private the video and now just recently redid it- Not sure why do that though, I guess cause the first time he seemed “uninterested” or something? Idk..

Here’s the bag of attention you were looking for when you posted. You can go now.

Canadian here. I just had some dental surgery done and was prescribed painkillers and the pharmacist spent 15 minutes with me going over the naloxone kit since I had no idea about this stuff. Returned the opioid (Tylenol 3) unopened to the drug store since I didn't need it but I have kept the kit just in case someone might someday.

Yeah, we've deployed a lot of it here. It's brutal how bad fentanyl is, we've yet to have a death here but not for a lack of trying.

​@traybernLiterally everyone knows that. It's a shortcut for free at the point of use.

Just googled it. The law has been changed so u can have the tests strips. May not be all states didn't read the full article

Eh that sounds twisted, so how do you test if a drug has been spiked/cut? The video indicated some fake prescription drugs were cut and shaped/dyed to look like the real thing. One test strip and you can hopefully reasure yourself the prescription is safe to take. Though i think if you need to test because you doubt your prescription supplier it might be a bigger problem than a test strip will resolve all on it's own.

Kind of a weird point to make really, if you have a test kit you probably will have fentanyl too, which is also illegal so you'd be going to jail anyway

@@Shiny101 far from it. They may be taking a illegal substance. But test kits shouldn't be legal. As people are people don't matter what u do they will find a way to take there drug of choice. Hell as a teen all I had to do was sit outside the shop to get my alcohol for the night. So give them the option to make sure it's clean at the very least. Tests kits should never be illegal

@@AdrianDowthwaite IV never heard of fake drugs coming from legit saucers. Got a source? But none the less they should legal and easy to get the tests. Ppl are PPL they will take drugs wether u like it or not. So give them the tests to atleast make sure there drug of choice is clean. Wich will mitigate the damage the drugs can actually do dramatically

❤ Wishing you success in your continued sobriety and your new business venture! You're so incredibly strong!

Well done. Have you heard of Sublocade? Stomach fat injection. 300mg lasts 3 months - So no more annoying pharmacy visits... Ask your doctor about it.

Good luck, helping a family member stay safe and supporting them through the hard times can make a lot of difference

You can only help her if she really wants it. Otherwise you are wasting your time. But the withdrawal is insane!!!! You will want to use and make an effort to use. I would recommend getting g her to a methadone clinic and working her way off that. It can take a while though. And do not let the doctors use suboxone. Most of them don't know how to use it properly and it's harder to come off of. Also look up high dose vitamin c to treat opiate withdrawal. I'll be testing it soon enough but people swear it works/helps . Plenty of info on youtube.

Only thing free is your sister. People that work pay for all that shit.

Many heroin users actually actively seek it out because it is so potent. For those of us not in addiction, that just seems crazy based on the danger but for an addict that high is the only thing that matters. My brother is a firefighter and he said to me almost every single time he resuscitated an OD with Narcan they would be mad at him for "messing up their high". I am sorry to hear your sister is in it.

​@traybernwhy the passive aggressiveness?

Yeah because addiction isn’t dependence and addiction isn’t caused by the drug it’s caused by being rejected by society

I was put on that at 17 for football injury.ruin my life

@@nothanks9503 Like the 'test rats', who when confined alone in an empty cage, would always drink the water laced with coke. Though when placed in a cage with 'toys', things to do & other rats, they'd mostly drink the PURE water and avoid the laced stuff... 'Proving' that addiction has a strong association with ENVIRONMENT!

Every human body is unique.

@@dinsdalemontypiranha4349 The human body is more of a spectrum. Its why one person can drink for years and handle their liquor and another person can spiral into self-destructive behavior to get their next drink. I actually avoid alcohol partially due to it tasting bad to me but also because my family has a long history of alcoholism and I am not risking falling into that. At most I might sip a single drink at a party if offered but never drink it for recreation. I have actually seen this as a theory as to why the bible calls a few things like wine, lustful sex and such sins as its easier to just ban the whole thing then try to find out who can handle it and who gets addicted easily.

Live down in Portland, same situation here. Overdoses on the streets daily. It's like 75% of the fire and rescue calls.

Nobody is forcing Europeans to do hard drug's 🤣🤣🤣 It was a joke in the 90s when it was other groups. Now it's hit u all in FULL FORCE and u all want sympathy

Out of the five US States with highest mortality rates of drug overdoses, four are Republicans. The top four.@@Apeiron242

I've never had a drug addiction, never committed any crimes, and never abused anyone. I've created award-winning work, actually. However, I would easily say that I've been demonized, "cancelled", trolled, and cajoled for decades. It's very weird, but it is what it is.

​@@Apeiron242 no Ape Iron , that's just what they tell the mentally inferior...

Great idea, make the experience of using pain meds unpleasant for people who already take them because they're suffering from horrific pain. what a sadistic, sick thing to promote. Opiates are already not very fun. They make your face itch and you feel like puking.

The problem is that adulterants radically increase negative side effects from the medication and do absolutely nothing to stop the physical addiction caused by it which is the real problem. It doesn't matter whether or not you dislike the effects if the result when you stop taking the medication is that it makes you lose your mind and become violently ill due to the withdrawal syndrome. Putting toxic adulterants in opioids has historically done little to dissuade addiction or misuse.

Fent is trash doesnt even feel good.

​@@thatdude3977yeah the high is nowhere near as euphoric as heroin or oxy but its availability, cost, potency, and rapid tolerance building leads many to seek it out once they're in.

"My friend's teeneage son thought he was snorting coke (possibly for the first time)"... wow! In my whole life (55) I have never had a friend with a teenager who snorts coke. But perhaps that is normal in the "affluent" circles you mix with?

I totally understand the empathy fatigue, I live across the street from a methadone/OAT clinic in Surrey BC and I'm starting to go numb to it, and it sucks because we need people to care, but it feels overwhelming and impossible to not get compassion fatigue. I've lost count of how many times this year I've had to use my naloxone kit on someone just walking to the skytrain everyday

@Suzanneyhearts people have been killing people for profit in one way or another for at least hundreds if not thousands of years. it cant be stopped slowed, maybe... but not stoped. the methods may change, but the motive do not. sadly greed is human nature. at least for some.

This isn't "education" and it is NOT a "horrible drug". Good luck getting surgery without fentanyl. I hope you have a VERY high pain tolerance!

@@christinewatson1989 I agree with you if the drug is used correctly. I have used it post knee and shoulder surgery for the first night after I got home. After that I reverted to over the counter pain medication (in Australia) for no more than three days - the prescribed fentanyl was correctly destroyed after I didn't need it. Maybe I have a 'VERY high pain tolerance' but it is better than the alternative.

​@@christinewatson1989 We are talking illicit use of fentanyl, not surgical use. Different situations completely. But I suspect you knew this and just wanted to throw in a snarky remark.

​@@christinewatson1989 imagine being in your 30s and acting like this

@@midnite_rambler Most people are too fucking stupid to know that a. Fentanyl is a legal, prescription drug and b. It helps A LOT of people when used correctly. You're in the minority. And there are restrictions on legal opiates that are producing devastating effects for the people who need them. I have a chronic pain condition and want to continue living. If that's "snark" then fine.

"Just don't take drugs" has been working out pretty well for me.

​@@0816M3RCSo ignorant. Imagine one day you get an infarction in your right calf muscle. By the time you get to the hospital, your muscle is practically dead, and they have to take it out. You wake up, and the pain you're in is so bad, that you scream continuously for 5 minutes, begging for a dose of a pain killer, until a nurse comes and doses you. Instant relief, no more pain. They release you from the hospital, with a prescription of Vicodine pills to numb the pain while your leg heals. So you keep taking and taking, and then your prescription ends. Your pain didn't go anywhere, however you no longer have any way to numb the pain, you just have to endure it. So you look for any alternatives on how to relieve pain until you give up and go the street route. One time, however, you eat the pill, expect it to have the mild pain numbing effect, but suddenly you get the euphoria equivalent to having 1000 orga-sms at the same time for the duration of 2 hours or something. Now luckily this doesn't kill you, but of course, you want to feel that again. Boom. You're an addict in need of help now. Doesn't even matter how mentally resistant you are. Now you know how it feels. One bad situation in life and you use again. Without help from somebody, you'll just keep spiralling until you either accidentally or intentionally overdose.

@@0816M3RC But when you're prescribed it by a doctor...?

Agreed. It's completely different than on the streets

Keep your opiod drugs 🙄 that’s why more Americans are hooked on regulated drugs

@angussoutter7824 The dose we give is nowhere near what people on the streets are overdosing or getting hooked up. They're taking milligrams and sometimes grams. And our therapeutic range is MICRO grams, just enough so you can not feel your broken femur, or the gun shot wound in your chest. Plus we're monitoring your breathing and heart rate anyways, so if you do start to "OD" which is already incredibly unlikely we also carry narcan

​@@charmingpianovideos6185 It definitely should be left for pros to handle. But then, it's surely a powerful tool.

Congrats! I have about 50/50 in friends who were addicted to Heroin who tried to get clean and those who could no. You do not have to religious to feel someone looking out for you.

Darwin Awards +1

Same

@@hydraulichydra8363 hey man if you're gonna make insensitive jokes can you at least make sure they're funny

@@wyatt199x3 if it didn't get deleted, there's a George Floyd reference somewhere in the comments section, too. But on to your point, uh... How about "Why are camels called the ships of the desert?"

Yes. I've been a stoner for more than half a century, and the possibility of my weed being contaminated with fentanyl scares me rigid. I really, really wish cannabis was legal where I live (UK): at least then I'd know what I scored was "pharmaceutical grade".

@@annalieff-saxby568 Grow your own, just enough for personal. You'll know exactly what you have?

@@annalieff-saxby568 The term "pharmaceutical grade" is nonsense, I think Simon has a video about it actually. I think a lot of these reports are scare tactics tbh, the ones about weed anyway, almost every drug is more expensive than weed so logically, nobody is going to be giving you free drugs by spiking your weed. Dead customers tend not to give you money also, so that is a factor. Fentanyl being cheap to produce does lend it unfortunate credibility though.

Mitzi-turbos anyone ;) On a serious note, that are a number of institutions that will test and give you a full chemical analysis of what you send them ... allegedly.

I used to party like a rock star in my late teens and early 20s and never had any problems. I stayed away from the big stuff because I was always afraid of getting addicted or ODing. I can't imagine I'd have messed around as much as I did if I was growing up in the age of fentanyl laced drugs. It's too risky. I know for damn sure you couldn't pay me to take anything now.

For real. The amount of ppl i know who test positive for opiates when all they do is uppers...

@@njones420 Still doesn´t eliminate the risk though. You don´t know how uniform your supply is. Now or over time. I mean. I am not experienced, but i wouldn`t trust an underground drug lab to properly homogenize all their batches. Nor would i trust a dealer to be able to guarantee consistent sourcing or anyone to tell me if things changed suddenly. :/ Edit: Come to think of it. If we assume most dealers want to profit of users rather than killing them, i would suspect a huge portions of deaths to come from unintentionally high concentrations in single pills or other consumption units. And for that poor mixing looks to me like a very likely suspect.

​@@njones420- Grey speckled Burmuda Triangles weren't too pleasant. Felt like my head was in a vice while I was coming up I was okay once I leveled out. 🇬🇧

Thats crazy...

ohmecarfentanil is stronger

30,000x stronger than morphine

That's XiXiPi's next phase. Before 2049 rolls in (global domination). I'm not kidding; look up the plan.

I tried Carf and Mu-F. To the guy talking about ohm-f it's just not seen in the wild. It was honestly pretty crazy that I managed to try Mu-F but it was around the time when manufacturers were just churning out analogues and we were testing them. Thankfully I and a few others ODd otherwise you'd see it much more on the streets.

I’m 40 years sober because I was never stupid enough to do this kind of shit. You don’t see me posting in search of likes.

​@@CasperInkyMagoo 28 years sober for the same reason. It's called privilege, buddy - stop silencing people who want to share their stories. Haven't walked in their shoes, keep your mouth shut - simple as that.

Make sure to keep yourself safe, I've heard of people having bad reactions to narcan wake ups.

@@pinkbubblesnake yes. They will often vomit, run, or fight. I guess I should have mentioned I work EMS.

@@adamcavanaugh4940yeah they go into full withdraw instantly

You must have hit the wrong button. That is 80 pills a day. 80 mg would be 8 10mg pills a day. Few get that much.

10000000000000% and they're tightening quotas again in 2024 aka further restricting legitimate opioid production for every major manufacturer. It's only getting worse. Everyone I ever lost to this shit was in some sort of legal entanglement that inhibited their ability to seek and receive proper care. All blood is on the hands of legislators and enforcement. Most recently, a friend of mine was attending their monthly pain management visit and DEA task force came barging in, took the doc out in cuffs and handed every PATIENT a pamphlet to a METHADONE CLINIC!

People who were in "legit pain" had no trouble getting those drugs because they had provable medical conditions. What you meant to say is that the people who never needed opiates in the first place are the ones constantly in search of a bigger and/or cheaper high.

Its not normal to have painpills in ur house, especially heavy ones. The amounts americans get prescribed is absurd, they keep using it after whatever it was prescribed for.

This exactly. Getting my pain meds is not an option- it is what keeps me from being unemployed and eventually homeless. Pain sufferers are NOT just expendable lives that are going to be sacrificed because some stupid people CHOOSE to use recreationally.

You've never been to West Virginia.

Cool story. Here’s your bag of attention. The exit is over there.

@@CasperInkyMagoo Haven't walked in their shoes, keep your mouth shut - simple as that.

Got that right

Me too, about 5 years ago. Never knew it was in it...

@@-Dwight-Schrute I’m sorry for your loss. In my case, he did both on purpose and I honestly suspect the OD wasn’t an accident. Sober he was a good guy.

man i remember being a kid when meth was the new crisis, how foreboding everything was 😞 seems every new drug that finds its way here is more and more destructive

It's only approved for veterinary use in the US. It looks like it has a bunch of negative side effects, that's most likely the reason it's not available for human use.

It's not that they're not regulated it's just that the US has a massive black market compared to other countries.

​​@@bcbeastersA massive black market shipped in FROM other countries, at that. I mean, you don't think the cartel gets their supply from the streets here, do ya? Because I've got a friend who works the border, he says they're all coming from there. All of it, guns, fentanyl, coke, all of it is coming from south of the border due to cartels.

You served one of the largest drug dealers around!

It's not just integrated into the economy, but into society itself.

People keep track of the famous people they meet but so few mention the infamous. Eerie to come so close to something like that.

Chronic pain left untreated destroys gray matter in the brain Need I say more

Wow, as someone who's been on the other side of one of your facilities before due to a heroin/coke addiction in my early 20s (been off for 10 years now tho) it's genuinely surprising to see a corrections officer have a heart and say something I absolutely agree with. As I'm sure you know, many who work in corrections begin seeing inmates as "lesser" almost like cattle. These views tend to follow them home and are further reflected when discussing topics like this. You must be one of the few good ones 👍 Like it or not, people need to realize total decriminalization/regulation plus vast improvements to public addiction recovery centers is the only way to fix this. We know/have known this is the only way you fix drug problems and the crime associated with it, (see alcohol prohibition) but no politician wants to be the "legalize all drugs" guy. Not to mention, it would severely harm all drug cartels which has led some to speculate that their financial influence is occurring within our government helping to prevent progressive drug reforms. It would solve our country's major incarceration problems, it would help alleviate street crime and domestic drug trafficking, it would help prevent addict deaths, it would open up many drugs to be studied more openly by researchers who could discover previously unknown uses for them (as psilocybin has done recently), it would take a major step towards destroying the international drug cartels, and it would hopefully improve the lives of people south of our borders. The answer is very clear and yes it'd be weird to see pure heroin sold at a gas station or dispensary but it's equally weird that world governments have arbitrarily outlawed certain drugs to begin with. People should be allowed to freely choose for themselves if they want to use drugs or not, but the public also needs to be better educated about the consequences of drug use and have free access to harm reduction practices / quality recovery services. I don't see anything changing anytime soon though unfortunately. The opioid epidemic has killed so many already and nearly every friend I've had since I was 16. If nothing has changed yet, I doubt it ever will. Unfortunately, most still see these deaths as acceptable due to the dead just being "weak willed junkies" without realizing most Americans know someone who has been affected by the epidemic if they haven't been affected themselves.

@@Funko777 thanks for the compliment unfortunately there is no political will to grasp the nettle on this but people are dropping like flies and that might drive change.

That has always been my belief. I don't condone drugs in any way, including alcohol. Criminalisation doesn't solve anything, it doesn't stop people. Just creates a massive black market and a bunch of rich dudes at the top, and at the bottom...the users. Drugs should be regulated and taxed just like alcohol is.

@@midnite_rambler the issue with your view is that the guys at the top are users too every animal with nipples alters their consciousness with substances in some way

Literally no one cares. You’re posting for attention and it’s pathetic.

I wish your voice was at the top of comments in big letters! Your damn right -- all of us have pain and I think the point is learning how to manage your life to live with it...

Same thing happened to one of my brothers friends. He has a degenerative disease in his back and had a legitimate need. He got cut off without warning. But he had a back up supply so he was able to start stepping down, but he still went through bad withdrawal. Thankfully he was able to get a surgery that helped and he moved to a state with medical marijuana. He's been off opiods for about 20 years now.

you're right: nope, they dont, they send chronic pain patients in dire need of relief to the streets and to their deaths with little regard for anything but their ignorance

“Doctors got me hooked” Typical pathetic addict rationale. Just say you’re weak and let yourself get addicted. No one stuck the pills in your mouth and held your nose until you swallowed, boyo…

Unless they looked at it by placing their eye into a pile of it I don't think it really requires further explanation...and even then the only question would be "Why did they do something so silly?" Jokes aside it's really only a slight exaggeration, this shit will kill you *fast*. The people who took this by mistake probably didn't even realise what was happening before they died in a lot of cases.

Seriously, my brother got hooked on opioids and it ruins people :/ dude was my roommate this year and lost so much weight and went in and out of rehab twice. Never seen a drug like opioids. If you’ve got any loved ones close to you ever needs pain meds for something medical or gets into street drugs, do what you can as early as possible to try to intervene unless absolutely necessary. Things get out of hand so quickly..

Cool story bro. Now get a job.

lol it’s always the doctors fault. Never your own, amirite?

Yeah they are so addicted they know it will kill them and they still do it. Crazy isn't it

@@joeyduncan5804 The crazy thing is when they'd BRAG about the dying part, as if that made them cool or something.

Was on a rehab with a dude died 14 times. Soon as he got out went and done it again. Fn. Stupid.

You wouldn't even know a cart is laced with it... I've seen it here in texas. You'd be amazed how many od's are of this

I remember someone having a shitfit about "skunk cannabis" like it was something somehow stronger than normal 😂. And saying people have coated heroin on it to get people hooked on it (I did fact check it and apparently It did happen once). But also very dumb, the price difference alone. But to him this was a very real issue.

and this is why cannabis legalization is important: legal production has oversight looking for product tampering like this.

Things like this do happen. I was introduced to meth through a bowl of weed. I had no idea until after

Ironic really. Poison laced with an even worse poison.

@traybern ??? Are you saying don't bring test strips into prison or don't bring people into prison for having the test strips?