sure, but being an alcoholic vs living on the streets giving your body to drug dealers is no comparison. This level of societal dissociation is unreal. It is the greater depravity that I am taking about there where they have created a society within a society and feel it is normal. Yes, alcohol abuse can lead to homelessness, but the acceleration of this lifestyle is exacerbated by the heroin/fentanyl scourge that our government/media is either turning a blind eye to almost accelerating. The sad fact of life as well is when your living from one high to the next, where is the line for some between booze, oven cleaner, OTC drugs, prescription drugs, and hard drugs like Heroin, LSD, etc. ? It typically is only a matter of time/circumstances that move you from one to the other.
Now, where mental health factors in is another level of societal apathy that the "we can fix that with a pill" world we live in is going to lead to even more of this chaos .
The sad fact that there are streets/neighborhoods like this all over the world is a travesty. The lure of evil is a tricky thing to not be lured into.
BTW, I hit send way too fast on the previous post so thanks for not jumping all over me...
I mean, I think I am relatively lucky that my addiction of choice is sanctioned by society.
I don't get drunk on the streets and I don't engage in antisocial behavior while drunk, other than the few regrettable times I have texted ex-girlfriends.
My addiction is cheap, costing me maybe $15.00-$20.00 a week, unless I decide to go out.
But if it was illegal, and it wasn't cheap...
I met a lot of people in rehab who were opiate addicts. They were not bad people. They were just like me.
All fucked in the head, just trying to make sense of a shitty world, not wanting to feel pain.
Take this how you want it, but I really like Gabor Mate's explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys6TCO_olOc
Regardless, some people get addicted to anything, even Funko POPS!
I am happy I am not one of those people.
Great video... I see your point and agree with it that the mental health issues are a plague to our society. A couple of my friends last week were discussing this general topic of addicts and while I am not sure what their understanding was of the 12 steps, it was interesting that there personal experiences of others that have overcome drugs, that God was a part of that picture for those that succeeded in getting clean. Interesting to see how many of the steps talk of God and self reflection. To me, much of them revolve around being less self absorbed which is really something I have been looking at how it seems more common everyday.
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