She also lives in LA. Being above the midpoint of the “healthy” (wtf) BMI range counts as fat there.

This is a nice perspective in amongst the rather angry ones.

This was an uplifting and amazing article. I desperately needed to have these words put down so that I could read them. It made me feel beautiful/handsome for a moment. Like “Yeah, I’m okay. Or at least not so bad.” I felt a serious warmth spread through me like it was okay to accept myself. Thank you so very much for…

Prepare your gorilla tears

“Bro Tip- Swipe right on every bonobo.”

“Punchable Trio” needs to be a song. Or the name of our new punk band!

This assumes that I’m taking showers solely to get clean. Showers are great! Baths are great! Hot water and singing along to my favorite Whitney Houston jams and occasionally even drinking a beer—GREAT!

You’re welcome! I am still trying to figure out exactly what Poodletime’s point is. S/he either has to take Oxy because nothing else works (unlikely) or s/he loves taking Oxy and wants to be able to keep taking it. Keep coming back! ;)

I’m not actually talking to you, I’m talking to the thousands of people who will read your claims. I want them to know that you’re full of shit. You have admitted that you can’t cite a single piece of research that backs up anything you say. And you’re making claims that are patently false. So you have no right to…

My brother-in-law, George, died of a fentanyl overdose and his parents told everyone (including us) it was asthma. In fact, my father-in-law knew the truth and lied not only to his wife but to the rest of the world about it. My ex and I did some research because it sounded weird that this newly recovering opiate…

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?

Gen X’ers get no love on the blogs. #1972ordie

You and me, both! Although, I also had a crush on Axl Rose in the early 90s, so take my taste in famous guys with a grain of salt.

This is why: “ The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused...both Purdue Pharma and the…

its not like she and her husband lived in a hovel or anything. Actually their house was really nice.

My son died by suicide and I don’t think his cause of death was in the obit. We were too fucking blindsided to fucking think of it. His dad wrote something up and I checked it for typos, that’s all I remember. I don’t know if I would have requested that it be there tbh because I had just gone from not knowing anyone…

Yes like these billionaire addicts.

there by the grace of God go I... I am a recovering heroin addict, clean for 6 years thanks to suboxone and a loving and supportive family. I grew up middle class, got started with painkillers for chronic pain and was on and off heroin/pilss for years, as well as coke. I stole from my parents, my jobs, my friends. I…

I am the director of services at a behavioral health center, and heroin, hands down, has been the most challenging for our residents to quit. Out of all the people who come through with heroin issues, only one had a positive outcome (currently sober after many, many, many, many, many years of use). I’ve worked with…

Heroin overdoses have been increasing like crazy. A friend of mine is in NA, and he said that there are so many young people there for heroin addiction. He was telling me about one kid who was telling the group about how in the last 18 months, ten friends of his died of a heroin OD, and that was his wakeup call to get…