I grew up in the 80s in the San Fernando valley. I was in the center of DARE, in the middle of the Crips and the Bloods and their narco-fueled civil war. The biggest drug bust in history (to that point) occured 7 blocks from my house. I rolled my eyes ever since...
And then...
I lost college friends to drug overdoses. I saw some of the best and brightest of my university program permanently addle their brains, I saw friends in their 40s, with amazing baby children, commit suicide after years of fighting opiates (the completely legal ones). I saw the CEO in waiting of a fortune 500 company destroy his life with heroin. Now the very first of my children's schoolmates and friends are dying to Fentanyl.
Drugs are more and more powerful. The bar to them is less and less. Some people (including myself) have issues with addictive behavior. True enough. But thoose don't melt the skin off your body.
FTFY
I grew up in the 80s in the San Fernando valley. I was in the center of DARE, in the middle of the Crips and the Bloods and their narco-fueled civil war. The biggest drug bust in history (to that point) occured 7 blocks from my house. I rolled my eyes ever since...
And then...
I lost college friends to drug overdoses. I saw some of the best and brightest of my university program permanently addle their brains, I saw friends in their 40s, with amazing baby children, commit suicide after years of fighting opiates (the completely legal ones). I saw the CEO in waiting of a fortune 500 company destroy his life with heroin. Now the very first of my children's schoolmates and friends are dying to Fentanyl.
Drugs are more and more powerful. The bar to them is less and less. Some people (including myself) have issues with addictive behavior. True enough. But thoose don't melt the skin off your body.
Stop normalizing drug use.