Saw this last night and at first thought “Oh dude, that’s what happens to me when I throw my back/neck/shoulder out!” I’ll lock up like it’s a cramp and after a few minutes I can start getting movement again.
That interview vid, the first thing I thought was “Looks just like Ed around ‘04 when he was chugging cheap wine and smoking meth/crack” (anyone remember when Friedman posted the 5153 with crackpipe burns all over it he tried saying were from the feet of another amp?)
And I think what Dino was referring to with heroin being old news is that no one is getting legit heroin anymore, if it even does contain any heroin, it’s still cut/mixed with fentanyl. Not sure how much more time will pass before everyone fully realizes how fucking nasty fentanyl is, but before long it’ll be like cancer; everyone will have a story about someone in their lives and fentanyl. Last year I put my ex-girlfriend through sober living after a 12-year opiate addiction that started with pills, turned to heroin and quickly went to fentanyl (she’s 15 months sober) and 4 weeks ago my sister had my nephew removed from her custody because she’s hooked on it and failed 4 piss tests in a row (this is after a 20 year addiction to opiates starting with pain pills). Fortunately, I never developed a mental addiction to any of the substances I used to flood in my body, just physical dependence which sucks enough, but not that bad where I couldn’t kick anything. Personally, I didn’t like fentanyl, it felt like a cold/digital version of legit opiates, but when it hits the same receptors and it’s all that’s available, I’m not surprised in the least bit that’s what people are dying for.
When my ex was in sober living I started taking classes to become a peer resource counselor, while I can’t give medical advice, I volunteer at a rehab just to shoot the shit with addicts, generally as a fail safe if they’re trying to bail during a meeting. So many stories are exactly the same and I blame a lot of early drug prevention for this shit; almost everyone says “I didn’t think it was as bad as they said”, which echoes my own thoughts on drugs after finding out that weed wasn’t truly as bad as I was told it was in the 80’s 90’s. Fentanyl is no fucking joke.