Heroin on prescription

Heroin by the Velvet Underground is my favourite track of all time.

and this is a problem for me.

God i wish it wasn't seen as being such a "cool" drug.

Look, I don't know what the answer is with people who are chemically dependent. I like the idea of it being available as a perscription, but I don't see the semantics of this working any differently than a methadone clinic.

But I can't even see the problem because I'm still so upset by my ex dying of an overdose. I don't know what to do about the fact that the drug is cool, and that people with abuse problems will want to experiment with it. And that these people, these inexperienced people, will die.

I'm sure this wasn't helpful at all to the debate...I just wanted to say something because i think about it every day.

Heroin: I've seen a few family members get hooked on it.
One family member, a cousin being a mother of 3 kids under 10. She was too weak from being on smack when she was pregnant with her third to be able to have an abortion and when the baby was born it had to be taken care of in the hostipal quite a while, Im still unsure if the baby is a 'crack' baby.

So uh, I guess I dont really have an opinion neither, and think this is one of the cases where you gotta see the evidence of how it works or not.

Im rambling on and I'll shut up now.

Absolute bollocks. I haven't paid tax on tobacco in the last ten years.

Same as when I smoked 4 years ago a packet of 20 cost me £2.50 and today I can still source them at £3.50 if need be.

and this is a problem for me.

God i wish it wasn't seen as being such a "cool" drug.

Look, I don't know what the answer is with people who are chemically dependent. I like the idea of it being available as a perscription, but I don't see the semantics of this working any differently than a methadone clinic.

But I can't even see the problem because I'm still so upset by my ex dying of an overdose. I don't know what to do about the fact that the drug is cool, and that people with abuse problems will want to experiment with it. And that these people, these inexperienced people, will die.

I'm sure this wasn't helpful at all to the debate...I just wanted to say something because i think about it every day.

Nhatt

Many great songs, a lot of poetry and some wonderful books were created because of use, misuse or dependancy on opiates. What these do is to explain in some small way why people take to it. Sadly drug dependancy is not glamourous. It is one of the most selfish awful things that destroys people and relationships.

My two pennyworth is that if heroin is given and used in a contained environment it may stop the spread of abuse. It may allow addicts to use clean needles, unadulterated drugs and predictable and regulated doses.

I know Clive, it's just hard to live with.

Drinking is seen in a simular way (i've mentioned my Tom Waits period before) so it's not even like it's a problem with it being an illegal substance as opposed to an illegal one.

Ever since the first human left some honey out and it fermented (quite possibly before that) we've enjoyed getting wasted as a race and will continue to do so. If we can make it as safe as possible to do so by removing the criminal element of drugs then a lot less people will come to harm from drug use imo

Aye. We've been doing it for a fair while... Eve the proto-hominid* fossil is as an example of cannabis being used during childbirth, ensuring that children with bigger brains could be born through narrower hips.

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The Taliban aren't a form of governance that can really be condoned. Unsurprisingly their human rights record is pretty shoddy and they aren't prepared to give that up in exchange for us not shooting at them and plenty of cash. Etc...

Heroin production was outlawed under the Taliban. The mass scale production has only returned since they were 'ousted.