I’ll try it out. Shit quickly takes over your life

Yeah I’m not a fan of them. I believe they’re necessary for workers to defend themselves, but hell no they aren’t ‘cool’.

How do we get rid of them?

Nice, I want to get off opiates myself. This lifestyle is shit.

Who really cares at this point? The man is a piece of fuck

Yes? Still a noble idea. We just need to find a way to keep that rage and fervor going. BLM isn’t useless idpol if that’s what this thread is trying to imply

No idea what you’re talking about. I’ve seen your posts before and they come across as crass and kind of whiny. Just my opinion though, I’ll try to avoid your threads from now on. We obviously don’t gel

Agreed 100%. I get people are uncomfortable with the idea right now, the woman further down made some very good points, she also was in agreeable once there are ways to block out certain things on the site it would be a cool thing to revisit

Yeah I have some friends with the same background that ended up with none of the baggage that I ended up dealing with mentally. They got lucky and didn’t get the mental illness or addiction gene.

Were opiates your doc as well? Shits incredibly tough to get off of for me. I miss my dad immensely so yeah all that crap sucks. You’re right though things could always be worse for us

Ah, so you took the same path I did. Shit sucks doesn’t it?

Maybe down the line when the site is a little more developed it’s something that can be looked at again.

Sure, I don’t even think I’m going to pursue it anymore. Too many people don’t seem comfortable with the idea and I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes or make anyone uncomfortable

I hear ya opiate addiction runs in my family. My dad overdosed on the stuff and I ended up a pain pill and heroin addict. I don’t even think I’m going to pursue the idea, I don’t want anyone uncomfortable that was my last intention. I do wish we were able to block people though, would make my life a hell of a lot easier.

I was just seeing how others might feel about something like that.

I don’t know. I don’t care that much, it was just an idea. Again I’m pretty libertarian in my drug use and think it’s something that should be discussed openly if you do it without shame. I understand others don’t particularly agree with that stance.

It was just an idea that I don’t think I’m going to pursue anymore. I don’t want to get anyone upset.

I’m sure the admins could handle moderating a subforum about drug use. To be frank about the memes and users, who cares? There are plenty of obnoxious memes and users everywhere on the site already. Either way, the admins and more could handle it fine I’m sure.

Spaces exist elsewhere, but a lot of them are pretty reactionary towards drug users and we aren’t exactly treated the best. I just figured a leftist space with these discussions would be less reactionary and more tolerant (though some users in this thread have me questioning that assessment)

They’re teenagers, not children they’ve probably already seen plenty of drugs and most of them probably already smoke marijuana at the very least

The last one I can understand being a concern, but that would fall to the moderation team To keep the posts in check and make sure they’re being made where they’re supposed to be.

I don’t even think I’m going to pursue this idea at this point anymore. Enough people seem weirdly upset by it that I think I’m just going to drop out.

It was just an idea

Right I’m an active heroin/opiate addict and have been for a long time. The reason I find that a subforum would be good especially on a leftist subforum is because as I said, the other places are pretty reactionary in their attitudes towards drug users. Harm reduction is nothing, but a positive, to be frank I don’t even think this should be controversial just like something like insite shouldn’t be controversial.

This disturbs me and I’m deeply worried about it. Fascism and rising fascism terrifies me. There is going to be someone far worse coming down the line, I’m white but I’m mentally ill and a drug addict, other people I love are marginalized in other ways. We can’t afford a fascist administration and the death and misery it would bring. I don’t think we can afford to be class reductionists right now

Not really a make fun of libs moment for me, I’m more concerned about building a better tomorrow and resistance. I would seriously suggest everyone start doing the same instead of making fun of dems shitpsots. Yes, hold them accountable, but also be prepared to lay your life on the line for your marginalized comrades because it’s coming.

That seems really unique to a person who played that game and enjoyed it.

What does that mean to you ?

It would be nice to talk to more experienced addicts about what to avoid and mistakes and advice also without the prejudgement of other reactionary shitholes about this stuff.

If you don’t see the point, you must not have ever had an active addiction. Some of this information can be invaluable and talking about with people who won’t judge you is invaluable as well

The original libertarians were leftists, American libertarians co-opted the shit out of the term.

I lean towards anarchism basically

This is my line of thinking. However, I also don’t know the legal implications such a subforum might bring.

I think r/opiates has gotten plenty of hate mail from parents who’s 20 something year old son Oded and they blamed the harm reduction forum instead of the fentanyl in the heroin