Chemical Roamce


I see and hear a great deal of people, mostly young adults, even some seasoned veterans, getting trapped in the drug abuse loop. My initial reaction is a knee jerk eye roll and saddened sigh. I am both annoyed and heavy with the amount of people who have access to knowledge about what opiate abuse can lead to or any other drug for that matter that is highly addictive and ultimately can snatch your life away. I understand curiosity and having that “I’m stronger than any damn chemical” bravado. I am also not a stranger to leaning on a substance to get me through a rough moment, my sugar crutch has helped cross over a few mud puddles but the sugar has never left me incoherent and I can’t recall a moment where I robbed or injured anyone for a couple of cookies. I never pond my valuables for a piece of cake or lied and chose to be on the streets drawing attention or sympathy for a bowl of ice cream. If you want to black and white the comparison, well, both are classified as an addiction. The heroin addict will look at me with my expanded waistline, type 2 diabetes; grabbing a piece of pie for support and think of me as a stunning example of a hypocrite.

    I try to fold into the concept of why someone with all information available today would want to even try such a drug along with all the other highly addictive drugs out there. I get that even though life these days has a high convenience, everything a swipe or click away yet there is a higher ratio of people mostly young adults wearing their entitlement cape. They get out in the real world and that’s where coping with hard core reality melts down and finding that something to help deal with reality. I’m not totally unsympathetic to those caught in the loop, many have chronic pain and need medicine to help them function and if whatever if it is that causes the pain can’t be fixed then I can understand the addiction. It’s the ones that had it made that try such substances that pretty much have a skull and cross bones attached to it thinking they are so cool. The reality dodgers who know the dangers but do it anyways because they have it under control.

   I have zero tolerance for the evil scum who capitalize on those with low self-esteem or low coping skills or young minds, making, distributing and making such drugs so available. If the illegal drugs were not so available and the prescription drugs monitored by the doctors dishing it out there would not be so many battling such chemical death dances. Better coping skills infused into up -coming adults, heart to heart talks about drugs/addictions and finding better ways should first come from family and friends, even teachers

   You never stop loving those caught in a chemical romance, you never stop praying for their turn around but you will be dragged into their deadly dance; drained emotionally and financially if you can’t find a way to let go.

  

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