| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Life"],"appCategory":"Life","appBody":"<p>The heroin epidemic can be widely traced back to the mass prescription of opiates.</p>\n<p>Here is a pretty common example. Let's say that I am at work and I hurt my back. This happens to a lot of people and back pain is some of the worst stuff you can experience. I go to the doctor and the doctor prescribes me some high strength opiate for my back pain. Say oxycodone or something like that. </p>\n<p>Not only are these drugs effective at hiding the pain, but they are also very addictive. So while I am waiting for my back to get better I soon become addicted to the pills. Instead of just taking the one a day I am supposed to, I am now taking two to three a day. A prescription that was supposed to last me 90 days, has now only lasted me 30 days. I can't go back to the doctor and ask for more, because they will know I am abusing them. </p>\n<p>I try to buy some off of someone that I know has a prescription, but the high quality of something like oxycodone makes the price much more than I can afford. Or I can afford it, but after several months of buying from this person, I am quickly out of money. </p>\n<p>This is where it gets even worse... Unable to find or afford the prescription meds anymore, I quickly realize that heroin is also an opiate, but much lower quality. It is more readily available though and I can get it for a much cheaper cost because it is such lower quality. </p>\n<p>As I take more and more heroin, my tolerance for it gets higher and higher so soon I am using two to three times as much as I was before. Next thing you know I am out of money again, I was off work anyway because of the back injury and now I am turning tricks on the street just to get a small amount of heroin to keep me going.</p>\n<p>People would say, why don't you just quit then, but the withdrawal of trying to quit is even worse than the back pain I originally had. It is a vicious cycle that doesn't end until I am able to successfully rehab or I over dose. </p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3vymgdhx","appParentAuthor":"musiwapasiwa","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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