P.S. Here is proof that social workers value science and use evidence-based methods. It’s a link to the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics. The word research appears 28 times. http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code…

You said “As you take opiates, your brain creates more opiate/pain receptors, so as to protect you from becoming numb, and possibly hurting yourself.” My education is in biology and psychology, and I have been a college tutor for many years, so I know this shit backwards and forwards. The part of “your brain” as you…

Could you cite the research that shows that when people take opiates, post-synaptic neurons create more opiate receptors to protect you from being numb or hurting yourself? And that when you stop, those extra receptors are destroyed?

Hey, you’re so keen on Oxy, somebody needs to ask you straight out. Not that you directly said “No, I don’t work for Purdue Pharma” but let’s just assume you don’t. No one is demonizing opiate pain meds. Of course we all know it is necessary sometimes. But you need to acknowledge that your experience is not universal.…

You said “recent research has shown that a medication-based program is way more likely to succeed than an NA or 12 step program.” Could you cite which recent research shows this?

So you don’t work in medicine, psychology or social work, you’ve never been addicted to anything, you’ve never been in rehab or a 12 step program and you’re ignoring proof that the makers of Oxycontin intentionally lied by saying it was safer than other opiates. Are you sure you don’t work for Purdue Pharma?

I’m so sorry, LaComtesse.

Alcoholic and addict in recovery here. :) Just wanted to say save some of the blame for a relapse on the addict. If an addict needs to go into any encounter with anyone who has a prescription pad, the addict needs to take the responsibility to begin the conversation with “Hi, I’m Strawberry Jones, and I am a…

Can I ask what your qualifications are, other than your own personal experiences, as you’ve stated? Do you work in medicine/psychology/social work?

Opiate withdrawal is the second worst. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is The Worst. :)

Recovering Rx drug addict here. I’m sure it’s really hard to think about the situation this way, but what should be happening is your brother should be the one that’s not sure if you are ever going to forgive him for not getting clean and sober sooner so he could create a harmonious home life that wouldn’t require his…

Hell fucking yeah.

Thank you for saying this. I think the same thing but I was just too tired to type it. <3

I didn’t meet Mr. Strawberry Jones until I was 36. Just because you haven’t met the right person yet doesn’t mean you never will. <3

God, he WAS so fucking hot, wasn’t he!?!? Way hotter than Angel.

He’s got to learn that if his heart is in the right place, but his comments are uninformed (corsets are dangerous) and make assumptions (that any woman is wearing a corset because she thinks all heterosexual men like how it looks) and patronizing (I give straight women permission to stop doing this, you’re free…

“So if you posted your opinion on something and I said to you (which I would never, ever do), “it’s not about your vagina,” you wouldn’t find that insulting?”

“Like, how is selling your body for sex different than selling it for labor? Sex work is just another type of work.” This. Therapists sell emotional services for money, why don’t people decry therapists as being emotionally slutty? Massage therapists and physical therapists sell a physical service they perform on your…

No one knows what causes alcoholism, so it’s not accurate to say that the reason you’re not an alcoholic is because you were introduced to alcohol a certain way. People who have been introduced to alcohol every way imaginable have gone on to become alcoholic. And people who have been introduced to alcohol every…

Stop making generalizations about a field with 2.8 million people in it. It’s so stupid. Please stop.