tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post7352912784671122301..comments2023-08-23T00:11:34.071+10:00Comments on The Australian Heroin Diaries: Another Possibility to Stop Opiate AddictionTerry Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12331435244789111209noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-85522173160439922092009-07-19T08:55:55.288+10:002009-07-19T08:55:55.288+10:00Thanks Jeremy.
It's bizarre that a game has o...Thanks Jeremy. <br />It's bizarre that a game has one of the best images to use to emphasise addiction.<br /><br />Thanks Anon 1 & 2.<br />Yep, the authorities are shit scared that the secret will get out - drugs are fun! They have no problem dishing out substitution treatments like methadone/buprenorphine but using morphine or heroin itself runs the risk of pleasure ... and they can't have that! It worked really well before prohibition but the Temperance Movement and religious nutters couldn't cope with something that competed with god or family values.Terry Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12331435244789111209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-62038963092458418522009-07-14T13:16:22.536+10:002009-07-14T13:16:22.536+10:00"It is the pleasure that is addictive"
..."It is the pleasure that is addictive"<br /><br />Psychological addiction is about the pleasure, physical addiction is something else entirely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-82554857393479902062009-07-14T10:54:18.215+10:002009-07-14T10:54:18.215+10:00Surely a contradiction in terms? It is the pleasur...Surely a contradiction in terms? It is the pleasure that is addictive to inadequates who can't find sufficent joy in reality. It it wasn't fun, they wouldn't stick it in the first time and then keep sticking it in. Heroin doesn't ensnare on the first taste, one has to really work at acquiring a habit.<br />More to the point, why this constant emphasis on removing the pleasure by substituting the far more toxic and addictive Methadone?<br />It is the haunting fear of the wowser & puritan since the Victorian era, that someone, somewhere is not as miserbale as their constipated psyches makes them. And thus must be punished otherwise what point in their self imposed suffering?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-77451190666980163562009-07-14T09:13:07.759+10:002009-07-14T09:13:07.759+10:00lol at the image. Yes, Diablo 2 was a very, very a...lol at the image. Yes, Diablo 2 was a very, very addictive computer game.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06192828679762836954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-5820702986954708032009-07-13T16:44:05.654+10:002009-07-13T16:44:05.654+10:00Thanks Anon.
I think your first suggestion sounds...Thanks Anon.<br /><br />I think your first suggestion sounds right. Hopefully, it should be a straight switch over and then allow about a week to adjust ... hopefully!Terry Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12331435244789111209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-40693488418908185952009-07-13T12:48:19.528+10:002009-07-13T12:48:19.528+10:00Actually, second thought it would probably take a ...Actually, second thought it would probably take a bit longer.<br /><br />But using "addiction free morphine" to treat the month long methadone withdrawal, then dropping the morphine would certainly work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-53691677373482263622009-07-13T12:45:23.738+10:002009-07-13T12:45:23.738+10:00Just a thought, but couldn't this be used as a...Just a thought, but couldn't this be used as a way to help people get off methadone?<br /><br />Go into a hospital, switch the addiction over a week or so from methadone to morphine, with daily injections of this new drug, and then cut the morphine out too.<br /><br />A pain free way to get off the juice!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com