I thank you guys so much. My family is affected by addiction and your books are helping to educate me as a parent. I wish you both all the best! Thank you for having this conversations.
So true. Marijuana isn't just harmless and not addicting like people think. There is danger to it and like all drugs you can get addicted.. Well said Nic Sheff. ❤
Same can be said for caffeine though.. I think it 100% should be legalized, it just should not be promoted / advertised (nor should alcohol or tobacco etc.). I also think harder drugs should be legalized in the sense that addicts can go to a doctor and be prescribed safe/clean forms of the drug they may be addicted to. Think methadone clinics, but expanded in a way that they provide methadone and suboxone still, but also heroin and maybe one other opioid, for people who do not want methadone yet, but also know they need help and are at risk of killing themselves. And for stimulant addicts (coke/meth) maybe you could offer Adderall. For benzo addicts, maybe you could offer clonazepam and stuff like pregabalin. It doesn't have to be all drugs nor the worst forms of the street drugs, but some kind of legal, medically supervised alternative that you know is clean and safe, so that you can get through perhaps the next few months or years of your life without dying, whilst you are not yet ready to get clean or move to something less "recreational", like methadone or suboxone. It is good because from the methadone clinics, you get hooked up with therapy, psychiatrists, even rehabs, and they have resources there like all the local AA meetings time/places, etc.. It gets addicts one step closer to eventual sobriety, than continuing to buy dirty over-priced drugs off a gang member criminal, and instead they begin to talk about their problems openly with a doctor and receiving professional help, without the HUGE step of going to a 3 month rehab to be clean instantly, something that very rarely actually works out for people. Addictions just need to run their course for a lot of people, but they need help getting to that other side of it ALIVE. No addict who dies will ever get clean. An addict who is alive always has a chance to. The less destructive / instantly able to kill you drugs should just be legally available though, things like MDMA and mushrooms. We don't have to legalized everything to win the drug war, really just need a few solid options and if those exist then drug users will almost entirely leave the black market behind. And that really should be the ultimate goal, destroying the income generation for large gangs and cartels who prey upon those with severe mental health problems.
The war on drugs is a big fail... I'm a heroin and coke addict in recovery. It's true, we have to end the stigma and people need to be more aware, educated on the subject. 🙏💛🙏
I was just telling someone this the other day. With widespread heroine addicts, the majority of whom are White, it’s an “epidemic.” With predominantly Black crack addiction, it’s a crime, and we should lock them up and throw away the key. In fact, we did. SMH.
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I was addicted to heroin for 7 years and had a lot of similar interactions with my dad as nic and david. Cried the whole movie
WuhSuhDood glad you are sober man, never go back brotha👊
Hope you are well and working your recover. God bless you
I thank you guys so much. My family is affected by addiction and your books are helping to educate me as a parent. I wish you both all the best!
Thank you for having this conversations.
So true. Marijuana isn't just harmless and not addicting like people think. There is danger to it and like all drugs you can get addicted.. Well said Nic Sheff. ❤
Same can be said for caffeine though.. I think it 100% should be legalized, it just should not be promoted / advertised (nor should alcohol or tobacco etc.). I also think harder drugs should be legalized in the sense that addicts can go to a doctor and be prescribed safe/clean forms of the drug they may be addicted to. Think methadone clinics, but expanded in a way that they provide methadone and suboxone still, but also heroin and maybe one other opioid, for people who do not want methadone yet, but also know they need help and are at risk of killing themselves. And for stimulant addicts (coke/meth) maybe you could offer Adderall. For benzo addicts, maybe you could offer clonazepam and stuff like pregabalin. It doesn't have to be all drugs nor the worst forms of the street drugs, but some kind of legal, medically supervised alternative that you know is clean and safe, so that you can get through perhaps the next few months or years of your life without dying, whilst you are not yet ready to get clean or move to something less "recreational", like methadone or suboxone.
It is good because from the methadone clinics, you get hooked up with therapy, psychiatrists, even rehabs, and they have resources there like all the local AA meetings time/places, etc.. It gets addicts one step closer to eventual sobriety, than continuing to buy dirty over-priced drugs off a gang member criminal, and instead they begin to talk about their problems openly with a doctor and receiving professional help, without the HUGE step of going to a 3 month rehab to be clean instantly, something that very rarely actually works out for people. Addictions just need to run their course for a lot of people, but they need help getting to that other side of it ALIVE. No addict who dies will ever get clean. An addict who is alive always has a chance to.
The less destructive / instantly able to kill you drugs should just be legally available though, things like MDMA and mushrooms. We don't have to legalized everything to win the drug war, really just need a few solid options and if those exist then drug users will almost entirely leave the black market behind. And that really should be the ultimate goal, destroying the income generation for large gangs and cartels who prey upon those with severe mental health problems.
It's almost like chasing something that does not exist.
The war on drugs is a big fail...
I'm a heroin and coke addict in recovery. It's true, we have to end the stigma and people need to be more aware, educated on the subject.
🙏💛🙏
Only thing I hated was when the interviewer tried to correct "social media" to just "media". Social media can ruin a childs life.
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Must be nice to have so much support and empathy. Black addicts were given jail time and told to pull themselves up by their boot straps.....
The actual fuck does skin have to do with addiction shove your race card up your ass hAzEL
totally agree
I was just telling someone this the other day. With widespread heroine addicts, the majority of whom are White, it’s an “epidemic.” With predominantly Black crack addiction, it’s a crime, and we should lock them up and throw away the key. In fact, we did. SMH.