Comments by "RiC David" (@RiC_David) on "The New Face of Heroin Addiction | 20/20 | ABC News" video.

  1. [1/2]It's so refreshing to hear somebody say that. There's a great disctinction between people who want to get out of a situation but struggle to on their own and those who *want* their own destruction. I hope her passing was as painless as possible. I've been extremely depressed in the past and I've been addicted to alcohol and low level opiates; at some stages I'd have welcomed assistance but at others I was going through something I needed to go through to reach the stage of wanting recovery
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  2. [2/2] ...with addictions, there tends to be (in my experience) a period in which it's providing the escape you seek and it's only when it stops working and you're just consuming to feed the cravings that you're open to assistance. I've always hated the 'shame them into recovery' style intervention approach. If somebody had done that to me, I'd know they didn't respect me. Likewise with suicide - back when I considered death, I hated the thought of others imposing their will to deny me this.
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  3. [2/2] ...then a person's core desire can be to fix their life - try to fix their life when their core desire is to hide and escape and it may well strengthen their destructiveness. I'm only speaking from my own experience, I don't wish to give bad advice that could hinder somebody else's recovery. That story of detox then overdose is a familiar one, it's frustrating to say the least that lives are gambled with by forced rehab in that way. It's clichéd but we need to love our neighbours.
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  4. The new face of heroin addiction is attractive women? Well then damnit, this has gotten out of hand - to the presses!
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  5. [1/2]It's a real moral dilemma, I know. Some would say that it's selfish of a suicidal person to take their life and so hurt loved ones but it's surely selfish too to deny somebody ownership over the one thing that's theirs - their life. If that person has children, I say generally they're bound to see them to adulthood but the "keep living because it would hurt us otherwise" always seemed *more* selfish to me back then. As you said, once that moment of clarity and desire for change occurs...
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