White House Panel Recommends Declaring National Emergency on Opioids

[tymorial]

15. There will always be those who are desperate for a way out

Or at least a means to maintain meaning they use to keep from feeling bad. Many in that boat are still chasing a good high but they're using to maintain. Others are addicts who are consumed with getting that perfect high which never comes. Sometimes you get close but never like that first time. If you have never experienced it, you really cannot understand the mindset, the obsessive compulsive need... the best drug counselors are those who have been there and come out. I am still an addict to this day and I will always be. I help others now who want help but they have to want it. They have to want it more than anything in the world and will do whatever it takes to make it happen.

To this day I know that my addiction wants me dead. It wants me to take that drink or take that pill. To raid the drug cabinets of friends and family for pills. To give in just one time to get that feeling once more. Hell it's just one time right? Bullshit. There is no one time. Not for us if I use I will be back to whoever trying to get pills or H. Whatever.

Those places you describe might be a means to maintain but we have methadone clinics to keep people from using. Many never go in