I think drug addicts should be left to die.

why kill them?they do it all by them selfs by taking drugs.

thats so normal. i don't feel sympathetic to them at all. they created the mess that is their lives, it's no one elses fault but their own.

Not normal, but I see why you think that.

Drug addicts abuse drugs because they go through an UNBELIEVABLE amount of pain every waking moment. That pain could be physical, mental (think raped as a child, or abused physically, etc) or both.

Instead of dismissing all drug addicts, think about why they do it. NO ONE wants to be a drug addict. These people are self-medicating and it's sad to see, but I understand it.

Try to be more tolerant because for all you know, you'll get in a bad car accident one day and break you back and wind up addicted to painkillers. Then what will you think?

You never know which hand life will deal you.

I hear you brother, im a drug addict who hasnt used in over 2 years, everyday I wanna get high, it never held me back professionally or socially, i have a girlfriend of 15 years and my drug use was never a problem Im 32 and bave worked construction since i was 16, i don't feel however that its the drug addicts keeping you from getting what you need, its our society's unrealistic standards. If someone using drugs falls into a downward spiral their instinct is to blame the drugs for their choices, (usually financially well off upper class), they never point the finger at themselves, they assume if it didn't work for them it doesn't work for anyone, when in life is that ever the case. On this planet no two people are alike, and why should 1 asshole get to decide whats right for everyone, I live in california and medicinal marijuana is legal to buy provided you pay a Dr. around $50 to check your blood pressure for literally 30 seconds and give you a recomondation, business is booming in the 2 dispenseries i frequent, and none of the other "patients" i see there are cancer patients or glaucoma sufferers, its usually people just like me who smoke a bowl just to wash away the everyday life bullshit. My problem is weed is not my drug of choice, its just enough to keep me from blowing my brains out, i want MY old life back, i miss the sense of well being a good opiate could give me, theres no shortage of it in the world, but they won't allow just anyone to have it because theres not enough profit in it. I say fuck you AMERICA, who the fuck are you to tell me whats right or wrong, i pay my taxes i pay for my drugs even in this crippling recession i dont get any freerides on anything people like me are the ones who make the world work, nobody has made the world any better by forcing people to your own standards, if i wanna get high and sleep a full night comfortably for a change, who the fuck are you to tell me no, just because some assholes kid bit off more than he could chew and wound up in jail or rehab, or dead, it wasnt the drugs that put them their, it was the choices they made that did it, our former first lady killed a man while driving drunk, yet liquor can be bought anywhere. FUCK THESE FASCISTS, LET US DO WHAT WE WANT

You don't know any drug addicts and have never been a drug addict so you have no idea of what goes through their head and the struggles they have. If your blacking out and cant even get out of bed it shouldnt be that hard to get a script. Try another doctor and stop hating on ppl you don't even know.

I get so tired of this shit about how its a "disease" and druggies are sick and can't help it. That is a load of shit, I used to be a drug addict and you know what? It was MY fucking choice to keep going and going. I'm not saying everyones the same as me but really, unless someone forced a needle in your arm or a pill down your throat, ITS ALL A CHOICE and even after that its A CHOICE to continue, as it was MY CHOICE to stop. If I were in control Id have the police round up all the hard drug addicts(opiates, meth, coke etc..) especially those who choose to inject, and put them in camps. They would be forced to work and produce food and other products, there fore contributing to society, as opposed to sitting in a piss scented alley shooting up and nodding out all day. If they refuse to work, they would be swiftly executed. Not only would our economy be grateful for the help, the food could be donated to those who really need it, not to mention the streets would be a hell of a lot safer. Many drug dealers wouldn't be able to support themselves that way, and would have to find real jobs or commit harder crimes and go away for it. If you ask me, I can't think of any more effective of a way to reduce violent crime rates. No more robberies for drug money, no more random assault by some strung out junkies, I hope you can see, its starting to sound like heaven.

Go smoke some weed it would be way healthier than taking pain killers

I hate them too. Fat losers. They deserve to die because they waste their life on 'Satan's Sperm'.

No actually youre wrong.
Its not the drug addict or the drug that is the problem it is the draconian and archaic laws that send the manufacturing of drugs underground into the hands of careless criminals.
These criminals cut drugs with all sorts of toxic adulterants because they make more profit that way. One day it could be your kids who decide to experiment and just so happen to get a bad pill or whatever and die.
Outlawing drugs also creates deadly turf wars.
Why do you think drug addicts cause problems in society? Because they are physically addicted and would kill their own mother so long as they got a fix. They may roll you or rob your house crime rates would drop dramatically overnight if governments took control of drug manufacture and distribution and drug addicts could get what they need easily in a controlled way.

Portugal has now decriminalised all drug use and takes a treatment and prevention approach for users caught with less than a certain amount.
Instead of giving young people a criminal record for their entire life for perhaps having a bit of weed in their pocket they now get directed to treatment etc. It has been approx 5 years so far and these laws are having amazing success.
I would like to see governments have the guts to take complete control of the drug market and change the world.
How can we have multi national cigarette and alcohol companies killing millions of people per year and sit back and tut tut some drug addicts. Its complete insanity.

The laws and the cigarette companies are the ones you should really be complaining about.

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Maybe all the people who lack empathy should all die.

That would improve the world.

So, commenters, go ahead and point the gun towards yourselves and do everyone a favor.

Well said.
stay sober and stay alive,
If it O.D's, let it die
My taxes shouldn't keep you alive,
Fuck narcan let em die,
It's your choice to live your life

Why does an addict qualify for federal help while alot of veterans are sober and injured and can't get help. It's your choice to use, it's your choice to abuse. Whether it's you, a friend or family. Defending a weak addict is disgraceful. Life and family is more important and they made their choice

IF....your an addict with a "problem" (ANY) and you are not working it with a program, your just may fall!!! Boo Hoo it your fault....It's like a relationship...if you don't work on it your gonna loose it.
If you do not have willpower....your gonna loose it... You can not blame Doctors for your addiction, you can not blame the cupcakes that made you fat, Alcohol that made you do dumb things you would never do sober, Blame the "guns" for killing...
People look for "something" to blame...You should probably look in the mirror, and there it is!!! .. There is no magic wand. If there was it would cure laziness due to not Working on THEIR problem (everyday)...........Fear! If you feel the need to use, or the demon is on your back, or the pink cloud turned black, you best RUN to the nearest "I need help now building" pick up the phone... and get it...or you fall....Simple! with willpower.....Your not the person you are when you are using, therefore you don't even know yourself (fear) How would you know yourself with healthy behavior..?

Many drug addicts start out on prescriptions that they Need. Be careful or you very well may end up one yourself.
I know an ex heroin addict that started out on morphine because she was in a terrible accident that resulted in 32 broken bones.
Most drug addicts have suffered more than you could know. Many end up in the places they are because that is where life took them. Sometimes it has nothing to do with their life choices. You shouldn't generalize. There are the ones who have only done it to themselves but look at what they are doing to themselves. They are in a self-constructed hell. They should all be pitted, not hated.

You feel this way because your words exactly you dont know any drug addicts the doctors are wary of prescribing addictive meds to everyone to prevent addiction u could as easily become addicted as anyone else if you watched someone close to u suffer from an addiction u would not be so cruel no i do not condone them but i do understand the reasons some turn to drugs

Why don't YOU drop dead? Just because you are in pain you are entitled to use narcotics! If addicts should die because they use drugs, so should you! Die already! So this world would not have to grow any narcotics at all!

I wish your doctor would prescribe them to you for your headaches. That would stop the pain receptors from letting the headache happen. I honestly think you would be happy for a while. Then you would start using the pain meds for stomach aches, to help you sleep, if you got a splinter, etc. Your body would get addicted to them and it would cause more headaches and you'd take more pills. Not soon after you would be popping them like candy and telling everyone you could stop anytime an your not addicted etc etc. And you'd keep telling everyone YOU were differernt then addicts. You're probably like 14 right? When you get older your perspectives change. Everyone do. And like monkey said, you may even get addicted yourself. Be careful!

Holy hell ?!?! What a prick! It isn't difficult to get a doctor to prescribe narcotics, you ball sucker. What the world truly needs less of is ignorant, intolerant, assholes like yourself. Let me take a wild guess here and say yer a Christian!? Right? I'm sure yer little book says something about judging and killing you dumb sack of shit. Go fuck yerself. Btw, I suffer from chronic debilitating nerve pain and have had to rely on pain meds since 18.

Drug addicts need help. It's the saddest thing I have ever seen, it's a hard thing to understand when you haven't walked a life in someone else's shoes. I agree completely with chunkybongo.

You have typical youthful idealism. When you grow up you will see that nothing is as simple as you depict it. YOU might even become addicted to drugs! (Dramatic hush) Seriously; don't jump to conclusions - especially when it comes to judging other people, and even more especially when making sweeping generalizations like you do. You will probably end up learning this the hard way, if you learn it at all...

I think you may be a tad intolerant and completely void of a soul. Most alcoholics/drug addicts do not make a conscience decision to become addicts. They end up that way because they do not know how to effectively manage their emotions. For example, my 9 yr old cousin gets raped. She starts drinking at a young age to kill the painful horrific memories, which she has shared with no one. Do you think that CHILD had A fucking choice? Your attitude and anger will dissipate the day your brother,sister, friend, son, daughter, mom or wife is struggling to stay alive due to their inability to manage their emotional pain. Try to open your heart, I'm not saying drugs and alcohol are justifiable remedies, quite the opposite.

wow, you are ignorant and hateful. what is your problem?? why should be so angry and a group pf people that have never done anything to you? oh, and for your info, addiction is a fucking disease. we all make our choices, true, but no one really wants to be an addict. and dont you know they are in massive amounts of pain anyway? just living that way is terrible for so many reasons. furthermore, we ALL have addictions. whether its eating, sex, drama, or whatever. people like you make the world an ugly place. there is something truly wrong with you.

If your migraines are that bad you must have triggers you are ignoring, I used to have insane puking delirious migraines for decades and once I decided to make my health a priority with exercise and nutrition and end all toxic relationships, which was no small thing since it meant cutting out every friend and family member and anyone who knew them besides my husband and children and facing the fact that a lifetime of abuse had wound me into a tight coil of stress both physical and emotional which was triggering the chronic migraines I had suffered since around age 5, once I faced the realities of my life and forced my way free of a lifetime of gaslighting, abuse, torture, mockery and invalidation, I've been migraine free, for over a year now.
I'm also familiar with junkies and I can tell you, they all claim they are the ones who really NEED it. Other people abuse it. If you want to get healthy, get healthy. If you expect the magical opioid pill to solve your problems, then your inability to score is the only difference between you and a junky. They'll tell you what victims they are, after holding a gun to the head of their drug dealers kid, how they need it to survive it's not like it's their choice, how their pain is only manageable with opioids and it's not their fault they need it to live. I knew junkies before they were heroine addicts, and they had that junky behavior long before using the drug. Refusing to take control of their health and just living like shit like it was just bad luck they always felt like hell, then using the chronic pain that results from sedentary, lazy, unhealthy lifestyle to justify becoming an addict and then using addiction to justify the parasitic nature they had all along, way before the junk.
but I really need it
-every junkie ever

First of all, let me start by saying I suffer from early childhood PTSD from illness and surgies I went through, had issues while growing up and was in a few psych hospitals, and in spite of all that I served 2 years in the US Armed Forces before the stress became too unbearable to handle any more. After I got out, I smoked marijuana, because it alleviated the symptoms greatly, but due to the war on drugs, heroine became ironically easier to find than pot. I started shooting dope, and before I knew it, I was up to a habit so bad, that when I quit cold turkey, I was dopesick for 2 months. I went to NA meetings, and the other members didn't coddle me, they simply told me: If you want to use drugs, that's your problem, if you want to stop, that's ours. Too many people classify it as a disease and this leads to the leaf-on-the-wind syndrome that keeps many addicts using. There's a choice, that's righ, a CHOICE to be made, either go on using and wind up in jails, institutions, or dead, or stop using. Now in this day and age, we suffer from a serious overpopulation epidemic, which can easily be seen as a homeless epidemic, because we can't build enough housing to house people with other mental illnesses that aren't self-induced. This is largely due to the obscene amount of resources we waste trying to prolong the lives of people that don't even care to prolong their own life. I say we give them a chance to get clean, but at some point, enough has to be enough. Why should someone that suffers from PTSD be forced to live on the street to make way for some addict that wants to continue using. So I agree... there should be some cut off point, stop treating them for an overdose, because, just like my homegroup used to say, some addicts must die so that others may live. P.S. Now that marijuana has been approved for medically treating PTSD I have the ability to lead a somewhat useful life. Without it, I'd would still be disabled and in and out of psych hospitals like I was before, and that would be more of a burden on the system. Also, I blame myself for sticking the needle in my arm, and the mere thought of using heroine makes me sick to my stomache. The best way to quit heroine, shake, rattle, and roll, and don't ever forget it!

I understand what you mean completely on this!!! I am in recovery from alcoholism but i have NEVER done heroin or anything like that. I know a lot of people who are recovering from opioid addiction and probably 90% of them blame the doctors for prescribing the pills and "big pharma" for getting them hooked. Um NO! You chose to keep getting the prescription filled and to keep taking the pills. Then they talk about how doctors need to be more strict about prescribing pain medications because they're "creating addicts". Total BS! So because people are getting addicted to these pills, people that actually need them should have to jump through hoops to get the medication they need? How selfish. I just cannot stand the entitled, know-it-all mentality drug addicts have, even after they get sober!!

I don't hate all addicts. Some should be allowed to live, we should just kill the ones that do it so much that they live on welfare funded by hard working taxpayers. I say legalize the stuff and drug whores that receive welfare be killed

I'm not mad at you. I don't have migraines anymore(knock on wood) but I do have the distinct experience of living with an anxiety disorder as well as fibromyalgia. People who are looking to get high off of prescription drugs disgust me. I can't have pity for über selfish people who wanna get their kicks off of medications others need for legitimate medical conditions.

No, that's horrible!

Yes! I 100% agree with you.
They steal and lie to and from there families. Then after they become clean they go to church and talk about how much they love god. "The lord will forgive me for my sins", well you weren't thinking about him while you we're taking $34,000 out of your grandmoms banking account. It really bothers me how they can be so selfish.

It is Normal, but your approach is very narrow minded and uninformed as to how Drug addicts become addicts, and it's kind of sick to say you personally want to kill them yourself.

Drug addicts become such through mental instability that causes them to make consecutive bad decision after bad decision until they end up with a lifestyle that will eventually kill them.

While I disagree with the idea of killing them strongly, I also strongly disagree with the money some cities waste giving addicts free Needles and "Injection sites". I live in Vancouver, and our city government uses taxpayer money to fund addicts' disgusting lifestyles.

Drug Addicts should have to suffer the burden of using dirty needles and having no safe shelter as a consequence of their own stupid decisions, they do not deserve get out of jail free cards. The inevitable truth is that even after recovery, drug addicts cause more burden on society than most can ever undue, they fund crime, commit crimes, and waste other peoples' taxpayer money.

Wow. What a biotch.

U shud feel ashamed of urself u r a horabal person ppl that do drugs I don't have that much respect 4 but how dare u say they shud b left to die sum of them r still gud ppl and look at urself b4 saying sumthing that bad about other ppl ur a bad person and I have no respect 4 u at all

That kind of a douche thing to think. im not an addict but dont you think they want to stop. blame the meds not the people.

Haha yeah how do you think people et addicted to narcotics most the time? They get them prescribed for pain or whatever then they take them and start to develope a tolerence so the pain effects get dulled too so they take more an eventually they feel like they need it to survive. It can't be helped. You don't know how many drug addicts hate themselves and the very drug they use because of this. My dad had a serious accident and was put on vicodin and he got himself addicted. My dad is a perfectly nice guy with no intentions of abusing the drug but he now is addicted. You should think about the things you say before you say them. Drug addicts are just people who have a problem. You never have problems?

no doubt, many addicts start with a pain or illness or accident, then end up getting addicted from their prescriptions.

if your doctor prescribed these in the past, and is denying them to you now, this is probably what he/she's getting at.

at any rate, migraines are a symptom, not an illness. if your doctor isn't working with you on trying to figure out what is triggering these headaches, maybe it's time to find another doctor.

Honestly your just an ignorant person for stooping that low and labeling people. for starters I HATE people like you. my brother was a heroine addict but hes a great ass guy who loves his peers, hes smart and for someone like you to judge another human being and saying you wish you could shoot them all? really? what you need to do is stop worrying about other peoples addictions and worry about your own sad unhappy life. People do have the choice to either pick up and use drugs or to completely stay away from that sort of stuff. but its there lives not yours, so pull your head out your ass and focus on more important things in life. you deserve to get ur ass kicked dude

Wow. You really are a short, blunt, emotionless, sociopathic, piece of shit. Do you have any idea what people who are victims of addictions (or simply make the mistake of trying out things associated with addiction) go through? Never mind the people that were idiots to begin with. I am talking about normal people, who become subject to te physiological, psychological and physical affects that addiction brings with it? You are a sallow, shallow, emotionless fuck that deserves to pulverized and ground up into human meat, never mind a piece of shit no one should have to pay tax money to keep alive. you piece of shit.,

I think this is an incredibly cruel thing to say

you just think differnt because you are not a addict i am a recovering addict yes it was a choice to pick up the drug but after that its like a demon has taken over you you get ADDICTED i agree it causes people alot of pain but it is not controllable we cant stop on are own

Just.... ignorant. Go read up on some legislature involving narcotics bro.