Reality of Drug Addiction
January 12, 2009Pete Morse died from a heroin overdose. He was working to save lives through a clean needle program, but it was the heroin in the needle that killed him.
Diverting undue attention onto “risk reduction” and “clean needle” programs is avoiding the real issue of drug addiction and in fact condones it. Like a jester cloaked in a salvation-army uniform, the message of help comes from a strange place and scoffs at the real problem.
People who use drugs have problems and they need understanding, care and real help if they are to ever have a life worth living – not clean needles. Giving a drug addict clean needles sends a message that recovery from addiction is hopeless. A clean needle can’t listen, advise and or give a hug.
Dealing with drug addiction on the gut, human level requires courage. It takes a lot of work and determination to get clean or help another get clean. None-the- less if we care about human kind, there really can be no other solution.
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That’s true..it’s not usually the needles that kill people. I also agree that drug addiction is not hopeless, being that I’m a recovering addict; I’m clean and happy…simultaneously!
Thanks for the post,
Burke the Jerk