[mrm1109]

Originally Posted by Kerri ↗

Someone please tell me why it is written in the medical books and all over the internet that opiate withdrawal is unpleasant (understatement of the millenia) but not fatal when it most certainly can be lethal?.

I don't understand that either. I went threw a Morphine withdrawal and ended up in the ER TWICE because all the vomiting and diarrhea dropped my potassium levels down..which CAN be lethal.

[BlueNosePit]

Originally Posted by dwizzy22 ↗

people always have choices always it depends on how selfish you choose to be

Addicts don't have a choice once the disease has gotten a hold of u.

[BlueNosePit]

Originally Posted by Top Gear ↗

Without sounding cold I don't have much sympathy for people who develop habits.
I can sympathise if it was through prescription drugs as that's an easy thing to do, but getting hooked out of sheer stupidity holds no sway with me.

98 percent of heroin addicts begin with an addiction to prescription meds.

[BlueNosePit]

Originally Posted by Kerri ↗

Someone please tell me why it is written in the medical books and all over the internet that opiate withdrawal is unpleasant (understatement of the millenia) but not fatal when it most certainly can be lethal? The way we treat opiate addicts is an abomination. No other patient would present at the ER severely shitting and puking kime, dehydration, anorexia, tremors, seizures, muscle contractures, etc etc, and be shown the cold judgmental dont give a flying fuck stone cold face of censure. Addiction is a disease and to have such a plethora of addiction naive docs writing, denying, undertreating severe pain, and withholding adequate treatment for addiction is just so wrong. I hope to God that the young docs coming up now are better educated and empathetic so maybe a few Bens can be nipped in the bud or saved in time. Very very sad situation. RIP.

Opiate withdrawal is horrible but is not lethal. Nobody has ever died detoxing from opiates. Also seizures don't occur from opiate withdrawal, but can happen from opiate od. The only withdrawals that can kill you and have to be done under medical supervision are alcohol, and Benzos (xanax).

[TheFallOfTroyML]

those parents .. i dont think they did anything wrong, they just loved their son to the end. the father who works at 71 ... god thats moving for me

[fapfapfap]

Wow.

[dwizzy22]

Originally Posted by BlueNosePit ↗

Addicts don't have a choice once the disease has gotten a hold of u.

Lol disease... Smallpox, Ebola, Black Plague they are diseases not someone who has the inability to make responsible choices for them selves.

[jtonkfan]

Addiction is hard, what ever the addiction is - I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

[oicutey]

Originally Posted by bdjackass318 ↗

This really hits home for me. I have a sister who has been battling a heroin addiction for 9 years. She very much reminds me of this guy Ben. Right now she is in prison because she could not kick it.

Same here. Gosh.. My brother is in prison as well for the same problem. 36 yrs old. This was so painful to watch.. I hope when our siblings come home, they are able to keep going sober and live life...

Thank you for sharing your life Ben. RIP.

[souris]

I dunno. The whole time I was a rank crackhead I knew what I was doing to myself and I one day just up and stopped. Definitely knew I needed help and would die otherwise, either from the drug itself or what I would think looking in the mirror at what I had become. So while I can sympathize with these addicts, I don't really feel much when the drug kills them. It's totally possible for even the worst addicts to get clean. Totally. Despair is just laziness with no desire to change things around. Been clean from it over three years now. Was bad into it for about two years.