#addicition

[outstanding-quotes]

The President is a junky but can’t take it direct because of his position. So he gets fixed through me…

William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

[forever-food-and-fandoms]

Honestly disapointed with the Queens Gambit finale. Like she’s drinking and popping pills day after day one episode, then Shriebel dies and all of a sudden she can play chess stone cold sober, beat all the Soviets everyone cheers and  skips arround mosccow free as a bird? Are we even going to talk about the flash back of her mom. I’m no expert, but this is not what recovery looks like!

[conjure-elemental]

Re: the last post I reblogged, I've been thinking of making a post similar to that bc I also grew up with alcoholic and coke addicted parents and it has traumatized me pretty deeply. And it IS disturbing and naïve how some ppl on here (and probably more on twitter lets be real) are obsessed with their theories about Harry being on hard drugs. Like not to dampen y'all's fun or anything but it's literally not cool or glamorous or quirky lol and seeing these "jokes" about someone so important to me & integral to my own healing is super uncomfy. I get loving the "rockstar image" but I think it's really really weird how some of yall fixate on this idea of Harry being on drugs. Don't get me wrong I know he's an adult millionaire in the music scene and has probably tried things here and there, but I also see how he talks about substance use, his work ethic, and to be honest I'm just downright tired of seeing these "~uwu my little coked out baby rockstar~" jokes bc like. He's NOT. And then the accounts that want to see him that way seem to get very defensive and rude over anyone saying "hey, that's uncomfortable". I know I look like a lame school speaker to you trying to tell you drugs aren't cool but for fucks sake your fascination with wanting Harry to engage w heavy substance use ranges from distasteful to offensive, and no matter what, it ostracizes the fans that have trauma around that subject and want to engage with media without running into it. Coke and alcoholism isn't cute and fun it's my mom nearly crashing the car while I'm in it because she's coming down off a coke binge and insists there's worms crawling out of her face and from under her fingernails lmao. So maybe fantasize about that image next time instead

(Okay to rb)

[anonymous-myconfessions]

It is hard to love an addict. Not only practically difficult, in the picking up after them and the handling of those aspects of life they’re not able for themselves, but metaphysically hard. It feels like bashing yourself against a wall, not just your head, but your whole self. It makes your heart hard. Caught between endless ultimatums (stop drinking) and radical acceptance (I love you no matter what) the person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis. I used to push myself to reject him, to walk away, failing each time. I oscillated between caring for the man who was afflicted with this terrible disease, and attempting to protect myself from the emotional fallout of having an alcoholic father. It took years of refusing him empathy before I realised that the only person I was hurting was myself.

Emilie Pine

[siehatmorastimkopf]

Wenn meine mam wüsste, dass ich regelmäßig einen Streifzug durch ihren Medizinschrank mache, würde sie mich wohl umbringen

*keine Verherrlichung von Drogen auf diesem Blog*

[lifewithchronicpain-original]

Just watched John Oliver’s latest episode about the opioid epidemic. I feel like there was one line about OxyContin being not effective for back pain and knee pain dismissive and incorrect. Many people still rely on OxyContin for those conditions and have used the medication reliably and consistently for years without issue. Glib comments like those make it seem like regular people have some kind of insight into who deserves pain relief and how much. I naturally dislike statements like those.

However as a whole the segment was largely about attaching the Sackler family name with the crisis. They have been behind the irresponsible pill pushing and had no monitoring, that fines for not monitoring were part of the business model. We have companies that did not red flag small populations getting too many pills. Now chronic pain patients are rewarded with an overzealous monitoring that drops pain patients with no tapering that still ultimately leads many to heroin. Although Oliver didn’t really get into that last bit I just said, it was a lot of shitting on Richard Sackler in particular for his heartless comments so he can be publicly shamed. I got not problem with that.

For a segment on opioids it wasn’t perfect but for the goal it was trying to achieve, it got the point across.

I do love my late night comedians because sometimes it feels like I can only stomach the news these days with a joke.

[tealover-studyblr]

Learning about addicitive substances and the consequences for our bodies and society. 🤓

... with a hangover from last night... Oops 🙊

[customervoice]

The saddest thing about working at the registers was the alcoholics/Smokers who came in with like €10 and first went to buy tabacco or a bottle of wine and then used the change to buy groceries (often went home without food)