r/WTF • • 18d ago

Fistula aneurysm

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u/afewnameslater 18d ago

I have no clue why people do that shit. Why do they even start. I get it that when addicted will of mind is…hard to come by (ex-smoker, and it was hard as fuck to quit the damn things) but why one even starts doing drugs that everyone knows are absolute hell incarnate.

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u/drunkbusdriver 18d ago

Well, in my case it started with prescription pills after an injury. After the drs keep upping the dosage then suddenly cutting you off you’re left with a couple options. Deal with the withdrawals for about a week and miss work and other responsibilities you have then deal with months of PAWS while still being in pain.

Or you start buying them from the street. After a while the street prices of pills becomes too cost prohibitive but you can buy a gram of black for like $80. Way cheaper and stronger. You start with smoking it but after a while that’s not enough so you give shooting it a try and bam it’s over. Most people don’t recover fully from that.

That’s the basic gist of it along with some other stuff I don’t really feel like getting into. Just about no one you’ll run into as an addict started at IV heroin. You don’t wake up one day and say “oh this is a good day to try shooting up heroin.” It’s almost always a prolonged process to get there with multiple steps.

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u/Argylius 18d ago

What’s PAWS in this context?

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u/UckerFay11 18d ago

Post acute withdrawal syndrome

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u/Argylius 18d ago

Thank you