Comments by "N Velsen" (@nvelsen1975) on "Japan's Post-War Meth Panic (& How They Stopped It) | Audio" video.

  1.  @menjolno  Spotted the addict.... The effects nearly all drugs have are worse than he described. Drugs turn people subhuman by changing their behaviour where the drug becomes priority 1, overriding social behaviour, empathy, desire for shelter, for food, overrides sometimes to the point of suicide. Working security for 2.5 years on a crowd of addicts and addicted ex-cons I've found we were very necessary because medical staff were often threatened and attacked to get quicker acces to both the controlled admission of drugs as well as methadone to supress withdrawal. The drugs forced them to consider agression as simply another means to get their next fix. Behaviour was often strange. A domestic violence victim whose foot had been broken at night by her pimp-dealer-boyfriend using a metal rod, was frightened of him whole morning as we kept him outside the property, but then 'loved' him again when the withdrawal had really kicked in around 1400 and they left together. She reported in the next morning demanding her broken foot be fixed (48+ hours after the fracture) but refused treatment when it became clear she'd have to be admitted, so she could turn tricks, not make money and wouldn't be given drugs. A guy tight on coke and something else, probably marijuana, threw himself at me trying to hurt a nurse. He's roughly 1.75 tall and in bad health. I'm two meters tall, at least 20 kg heavier and wearing a stab vest as armour. You aint winning that, ever. 😆 But the drug overrides his normal behaviour where your brain tells you "You can't win this, do not attack". After that he ate strikes that have floored trained fighters in the ring and kept coming, until a kneestrike to the jaw dropped him like a sack of potatoes. When he regained conciousness he was already handcuffed by police, but went berserk again. We had to help the cops get him into the car. According to the police report, he broke his own wrist struggling to get free. Junkie, that's what drugs do the people. That's going to be you in a couple years.
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