A lot of people don't realize that about alcohol. I co-facilitate a sobriety group and we have people in all the time that ended up in the hospital after they tried to quit drinking on their own. You should definitely work with a doctor if you plan to get sober from alcohol if you are a heavy drinker.
This might be unpopular, but I say fuck the sugarfags and the junkiefags.
Pay for your own life saving medicine or start looking hard at the alternatives. This is true whether you're claiming to need a heart valve, some methodone or a prosthetic cock to make your live more complete. I really don't give a fuck I'm not interested in how unfair your particular situation is and how we need to band together and fucking help you figure it out.
Miraculously this help ALWAYS comes in the form of a check from the tax payers ending up in the hands of some large, already well-funded institution and subsidizing your lifestyle choices at the expense of others.
I used to have a very bad drinking problem. Withdraw from booze can kill you. I dealt with it, paid for my problem... a few times. I never hurt anybody but hospital stays ain't cheap.
I paid for it, sure I had help from my folks but they got paid back. I have sympathy for very few. If you're a soldier, yes you have my sympathy but other than that... I don't know.
The booze thing is true but you can also taper off over the course of a week or two if you have some supervision and/or discipline. In my experience so-called hard drinkers are addicted to the sauce for sure but a large part of them is also addicted to being a drunken mess.
You have to buy into being psychologically addicted to alcohol at some point as a lifestyle choice before you reach the point of physical addiction. I don't think you can get to that point without some level of commitment and conscious buy in it's not like opiates. Even with those I'd argue you make a conscious decision to accept psychological dependence because some level of abuse or misuse generally has to take place it's not totally accidental.
Maybe I'm over generalizing here but this always seems to be the case.
I've done the taper thing. It still sucks but less. It is also psychological.
I know even smoking to me is part psychological. It's five minutes to get away from people, five minutes to relax. I can go days without smoking but some times it is just nice to have a "reason" to go sit outside and relax, look at the stars. (excuses)
I know that kind of impulse was what got me smoking in the first place I just wanted to be able to stop and slow things down for a few minutes or even just get some quiet reflection time. I still make time to do that a few times a day I just haven't smoked in almost 5 years.
I think smoking is great for all precisely all those reasons (also not condescension, being genuine). It's really important for us to take care of ourselves in those ways and often it's the traps of our teenage years or young adulthood where we sort of temporarily lose our minds.
When you decide you are ready to quit it's actually incredibly easy to do. All you do is set a date, preferably several months in the future (at least 2). As you approach that date there are no rules. You don't have to smoke less you don't have to do anything. Don't have to tell anyone, don't have to buy anything special or listen to any programs or seminars. Don't give it any specific energy at all, you simply be aware as that date approaches and try to be aware of your smoking. I guarantee that if you do it this way as I have described that when the day finally arrives it will be a relief to stop smoking and you'll be done with it and go about your life. You may have some physical reactions related to withdrawal but you'll be able to handle them fine and they should be gone within 72 hours. After that you'll be solid it's just a question of managing some inevitable weight gain and a few other mild side effects.
I was referring to adults. Some babies are born addicted to drugs as well I certainly wasn't talking about them either. I wasn't saying "fuck those free loading crack babies!" How about this? At whatever point you develop your Type 1 diabetes by the time you are an adult it's on you to find out how to pay for the pills and other things you need to survive.
BTW, cheaper generics and synthetics are widely available and work exactly the same way. It's a complete myth that anyone actually needs to be paying $750, $1000+ all these ridiculous figures we hear out of pocket for their live saving medicine. It's all propaganda and nobody ever looks up the facts.
My grandparent's cat literally was a part of the same racket as they had him on a some gold level vet plan where everything is paid for. His insulin was two hundred plus a month and now it's $25.
Your ignorance on this is understandable, but maybe learn a bit before demonizing people with falsehoods. Plenty of type 2 diabetics need insulin to manage blood sugar. Not all type 2 were somehow gorging sugar. In my family tree we have both juvenile diabetics and adult ones and not one of them is anywhere near as overweight as non diabetic morbidly obese people. Some women have gestational diabetes, this gets triggered by pregnancy. Sometimes it hangs around. There are prescription meds that cause endocrine imbalances and diabetes.
Healthy children with type 1 diabetes die quickly without insulin due to organ failure for unknown reasons.Type 2 diabetics have made poor life choices, and do not take insulin until their end. I thought you were educated.
seriously though how is insulin that expensive. drugs are normally only expensive for a limited time until the patents expire i thought. I remember i used to get one for ear/throat infections when i was younger and it was like $100. then a year or so later had to get it again and it was $7.
Heroin and opioids are a huge problem. Cutting narcan isn't the answer. But, allowing drugs to actually have competition would immediately solve the insulin price issue.
Just let the dumb addicts die. Waste of taxpayer money.
Everyone knows that this shit is dangerous and addictive the first time you take this drug.
No-one gets forced to take it, so let these people follow their free will to die. Society owes them nothing.
Narcan is used to revive heroin addicts who OD'd. It doesn't really help with addiction.
Suboxone or Methodone would be a more accurate comparison and that shit is expensive AF and most health insurance won't cover it. It's also evil.
Don't be a pussy, quit cold turkey.
Only booze and benzo withdrawal can kill you outright.
A lot of people don't realize that about alcohol. I co-facilitate a sobriety group and we have people in all the time that ended up in the hospital after they tried to quit drinking on their own. You should definitely work with a doctor if you plan to get sober from alcohol if you are a heavy drinker.
Benzo is basically alcohol withdraw. They give you benzos for alcohol withdraw.
But yes that shit can kill you.
I'm an alcoholic. (once an addict, always an addict all that shit.)
Came here to say this and also I heard the FBI is a bunch of cucked faggots
Government shouldn't be buying anyone any drugs
I got a DUI about 10 years ago and the CHP sent me a bill for arresting me. $450.
Narcan brings a person who overdosed back to life.
This might be unpopular, but I say fuck the sugarfags and the junkiefags.
Pay for your own life saving medicine or start looking hard at the alternatives. This is true whether you're claiming to need a heart valve, some methodone or a prosthetic cock to make your live more complete. I really don't give a fuck I'm not interested in how unfair your particular situation is and how we need to band together and fucking help you figure it out.
Miraculously this help ALWAYS comes in the form of a check from the tax payers ending up in the hands of some large, already well-funded institution and subsidizing your lifestyle choices at the expense of others.
I used to have a very bad drinking problem. Withdraw from booze can kill you. I dealt with it, paid for my problem... a few times. I never hurt anybody but hospital stays ain't cheap.
I paid for it, sure I had help from my folks but they got paid back. I have sympathy for very few. If you're a soldier, yes you have my sympathy but other than that... I don't know.
The booze thing is true but you can also taper off over the course of a week or two if you have some supervision and/or discipline. In my experience so-called hard drinkers are addicted to the sauce for sure but a large part of them is also addicted to being a drunken mess.
You have to buy into being psychologically addicted to alcohol at some point as a lifestyle choice before you reach the point of physical addiction. I don't think you can get to that point without some level of commitment and conscious buy in it's not like opiates. Even with those I'd argue you make a conscious decision to accept psychological dependence because some level of abuse or misuse generally has to take place it's not totally accidental.
Maybe I'm over generalizing here but this always seems to be the case.
You are not wrong.
I've done the taper thing. It still sucks but less. It is also psychological.
I know even smoking to me is part psychological. It's five minutes to get away from people, five minutes to relax. I can go days without smoking but some times it is just nice to have a "reason" to go sit outside and relax, look at the stars. (excuses)
I know that kind of impulse was what got me smoking in the first place I just wanted to be able to stop and slow things down for a few minutes or even just get some quiet reflection time. I still make time to do that a few times a day I just haven't smoked in almost 5 years.
Good on you. (not trying to be condescending) but I'm not there yet.
I think smoking is great for all precisely all those reasons (also not condescension, being genuine). It's really important for us to take care of ourselves in those ways and often it's the traps of our teenage years or young adulthood where we sort of temporarily lose our minds.
When you decide you are ready to quit it's actually incredibly easy to do. All you do is set a date, preferably several months in the future (at least 2). As you approach that date there are no rules. You don't have to smoke less you don't have to do anything. Don't have to tell anyone, don't have to buy anything special or listen to any programs or seminars. Don't give it any specific energy at all, you simply be aware as that date approaches and try to be aware of your smoking. I guarantee that if you do it this way as I have described that when the day finally arrives it will be a relief to stop smoking and you'll be done with it and go about your life. You may have some physical reactions related to withdrawal but you'll be able to handle them fine and they should be gone within 72 hours. After that you'll be solid it's just a question of managing some inevitable weight gain and a few other mild side effects.
Your ignorance is unpopular. Type one is a death sentence for healthy kids. Type 2 is lifestyle choice, and doesn't take insulin.
Lots of people take insulin that have type 2 diabetes.
Not to live.
I was referring to adults. Some babies are born addicted to drugs as well I certainly wasn't talking about them either. I wasn't saying "fuck those free loading crack babies!" How about this? At whatever point you develop your Type 1 diabetes by the time you are an adult it's on you to find out how to pay for the pills and other things you need to survive.
BTW, cheaper generics and synthetics are widely available and work exactly the same way. It's a complete myth that anyone actually needs to be paying $750, $1000+ all these ridiculous figures we hear out of pocket for their live saving medicine. It's all propaganda and nobody ever looks up the facts.
My grandparent's cat literally was a part of the same racket as they had him on a some gold level vet plan where everything is paid for. His insulin was two hundred plus a month and now it's $25.
Your ignorance on this is understandable, but maybe learn a bit before demonizing people with falsehoods. Plenty of type 2 diabetics need insulin to manage blood sugar. Not all type 2 were somehow gorging sugar. In my family tree we have both juvenile diabetics and adult ones and not one of them is anywhere near as overweight as non diabetic morbidly obese people. Some women have gestational diabetes, this gets triggered by pregnancy. Sometimes it hangs around. There are prescription meds that cause endocrine imbalances and diabetes.
Healthy children with type 1 diabetes die quickly without insulin due to organ failure for unknown reasons.Type 2 diabetics have made poor life choices, and do not take insulin until their end. I thought you were educated.
"unknown reasons": pancreas can't make insulin --> sugar can't get into cells --> organs have no source of energy --> organ failure.
Why does the pancreas die, and why is it accelerating as a disease?
This isn't about insulin.
This is about a special type of fast acting insulin.
The old normal stuff is really cheap.
I haven't trusted any edgy political message on one of these sign boards since I used a generator that could put any message on one of them.
The point is valid, but these pictures are sadly usually fake.
For example
seriously though how is insulin that expensive. drugs are normally only expensive for a limited time until the patents expire i thought. I remember i used to get one for ear/throat infections when i was younger and it was like $100. then a year or so later had to get it again and it was $7.
Heroin and opioids are a huge problem. Cutting narcan isn't the answer. But, allowing drugs to actually have competition would immediately solve the insulin price issue.
It wasn’t under Trump :)
Just let the dumb addicts die. Waste of taxpayer money. Everyone knows that this shit is dangerous and addictive the first time you take this drug. No-one gets forced to take it, so let these people follow their free will to die. Society owes them nothing.
Narcan is not for helping with addiction at all