I'm only thinking about this bc I just had surgery and I'm on oxy for the first time in 17 years, but, like...
Doctors really claim, like as a profession, that they just didn't know fucking opium was highly addictive and oopsie woopsie did a little fucky wucky and now like a million people are dead?
Cause I really never thought about that, but I took 1 "take 2 every four hours" pill SEVEN FUCKING HOURS AGO and I am still tripping balls and in my current altered state their cutesy little "We just forgot morphine was dangerous" shtick sounds pretty fucking ridiculous.
Oh and the DEA and FDA must have been in on this, too, right? The whole time? Because no one would actually be stupid enough to believe this shit, right?
It is wild how differently two people can react to the same substance. I have bipolar disorder, and for one reason or another bipolar people tend to be extremely vulnerable to habit forming substances, but i've never felt pressure to use anything outside strictly functional contexts. But then right beside me is someone who has been using alcohol to treat symptoms for decades.
It's just bizarre. I think most people think of themselves as "normal" but then you start to realize how much variation their is in people and how deeply, deeply weird that feels. Like i could ruin someone's hard-earned peace just by casually offering them a beer, but me being offered a beer is no danger at all.