MENTAL HEALTH / THAT TIME OF YEAR - WE CAN DO BETTER

[Still whittling]

Very true, however hard drug use really only ends one way unless the addiction is beaten.
But yes of course people can and do get addicted to anything.

I think it’s a matter of degrees though. If you ate cheeseburgers for a month you’d put on weight but no lasting effects.
If you had heroin for a month you’d be fecked without serious help.

I’d have a cheeseburger if offered but I’d never touch anything like heroin in a million years.

I appreciate though it’s down to circumstance, the company people keep, their mental health at the time or trying to numb some trauma, many reasons they can start on the slippery slope.

Point taken fishy but true food addicts, alcoholics etc end up dying way too early as well.

 

[Beach]

Point taken fishy but true food addicts, alcoholics etc end up dying way too early as well.

As do drug takers.

 

[flappy]

As do drug takers.

Always wondered if this one would be my last.

 

[Mr Fish]

Point taken fishy but true food addicts, alcoholics etc end up dying way too early as well.

Indeed, but you really have to work hard at death by cheeseburgers!

 

[Still whittling]

Indeed, but you really have to work hard at death by cheeseburgers!

Probably the opposite,hard work and morbid obesity are not common bedfellows.

 

[Mr Fish]

Probably the opposite,hard work and morbid obesity are not common bedfellows.

True. And no room in the bed for anyone else anyway…

 

[CKB]

So what's it's like to be a social worker then?

I fear overqualified at this point. The trouble with reading neuroscience and psychology is it isolates you a little. It's available to everyone. We can hope for better.

 

[CKB]

We can all do better, lads. People need such little encouragement, but they need some.

 

[Redneck Dek]

 

[Valleyboy]

Yep I take an active D3, prescription only, which is more of a hormone tbh.
It’s a bit complicated…

I take alpha calcidol as well. Good gear

 

[Beach]

Very true, however hard drug use really only ends one way unless the addiction is beaten.
But yes of course people can and do get addicted to anything.

I think it’s a matter of degrees though. If you ate cheeseburgers for a month you’d put on weight but no lasting effects.
If you had heroin for a month you’d be fecked without serious help.

I’d have a cheeseburger if offered but I’d never touch anything like heroin in a million years.

I appreciate though it’s down to circumstance, the company people keep, their mental health at the time or trying to numb some trauma, many reasons they can start on the slippery slope.

Tel Elvis that, oh no he died from crap food etc. Junkies/smackheads; they get what they deserve imo.

 

[Beach]

Always wondered if this one would be my last.

Simples: get off them drugs then.

 

[flappy]

Simples: get off them drugs then.

Been clean since 2000.
Hence my alcoholism.
Had two beers in a fortnight.

 

[Mr Fish]

Tel Elvis that, oh no he died from crap food etc. Junkies/smackheads; they get what they deserve imo.

Wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t have a few drugs of one sort or another too, but it’s a question of scale really.
If you or I went onto hard drugs we could easily be dead in a year or two, one way or another.
If we went onto cheeseburgers we’d be unhealthy after that time but highly unlikely to be dead.
And we could stop eating the burgers and not get life threatening withdrawal symptoms.

People can’t just stop heroin or serious alcohol addiction because that alone could kill them, they have to be weaned off it gradually.

 

[Where’s Wally]

What is needed is for the police to stop drugs. It’s their job to protect society from criminals, but they seem content with merely stopping the odd gang here and there.
It’s the knock on effect on society that is the true cost, death, burden on the NHS, crime to pay for their habits etc.
The courts are too lenient, the government are too afraid to build more prisons, the whole system is broken

 

[Redneck Dek]

Ozzy,Keith Richards and Lemmy if old age didn’t get him?

 

[flappy]

What is needed is for the police to stop drugs. It’s their job to protect society from criminals, but they seem content with merely stopping the odd gang here and there.
It’s the knock on effect on society that is the true cost, death, burden on the NHS, crime to pay for their habits etc.
The courts are too lenient, the government are too afraid to build more prisons, the whole system is broken

Anarchy is already in the inner cities… areas where the police won’t go.

 

[flappy]

Imagine a place where young children are used as drug runners.. used to stab other dealers…..and used as lookouts for organised crime… before being pulled into a gang scenario where any thing goes..

 

[flappy]

 

[flappy]

Simples: get off them drugs then.

And there you have it.
If only things were that simple..