I was with you all the way up to that comma after “knitted it.”

The Aristocrats!

This is the best picture ever taken in the history of pictures

Clear the bed and make it. That makes a world of difference.

This is them, this past Caturday.

The story of Mother Jones is amazing. She became a labor organizer after her husband and all of her four children were killed by yellow fever in a very short span of time. Nothing like an angry mother to go out and kick some ass.

Hi everybody! I have been an infrequent commenter here, and I want to get out of the greys. So I’m going to start following people, and hope to gain a few followers too! I will never be as prolific a commenter as many of you, but know that I enjoy being part of this community!

Damn it. I’m so used to Trump being described as various foods (“cheese creature”, “moldy walnut” and so forth) that I completely misread this.

I was a very serious painkiller addict. One morning after a particularly hard night of withdrawaling I started looking around for herion (as I couldn’t find any pills). When I actually found some it actually brought me back to reality, like “you’re getting ready to inject something foreign and harmful into your body,…

Draw me like one of your French girls.

Be very, very careful. Reading this really scared me. I would like to advise you from afar to just never take a prescription opiate again if you can help it, and certainly not “recreationally.”

Psoriatic arthritis sufferer here. I’m on Humira and have taken hydrocodone regularly since 2009, with no increase in frequency or dosage. I take one 10mg pill every six hours. My rheumatologist will occasionally prescribe a few oxycodone if I’m having an unusually painful flare, but generally I can stick to the…

This is one of the biggest reasons I’ve never taken opiates for my rheumatoid arthritis, although several doctors have asked. I have had two surgeries for which I was given Vicodin, and that shit works for pain like crazy - and it makes the RA pain simply disappear. But RA is a lifelong thing and if I start with…

But not produced under controlled conditions that assure a consistent dose. Phillip Seymour Hoffman did not need to die.

It took forever for me to admit that I was abused- I was ashamed that I had allowed it to happen to me at all let alone in a continued manner for so long. Eventually I realized that if I knew anyone who had gone through this I could have maybe reached out if only for a calm voice reassuring me that things would be…

The concept that all opiate users are the street level, poor, unemployed junkie is not accurate at all. Most opiate addicts are employed and moderate to highly successful. Heroin (the cheapest form of opiates) is still an extremely expensive habit to have.

yep, I just meant that oxy is cheaper for most people as long as the doctor is prescribing it and insurance is covering it. Once the doctor stops prescribing it, oxy is WAY more expensive, so these ‘created’ junkies turn to heroin.

It’s dumbfounding, truly. The VA close to me is starting to adjust their policy, but only because other government entities stepped in and started flagging people with multiple opiate scripts. Not sure how that happened, but I’m grateful it did. Their treatment of PTSD is another story. Ugh.

It’s not that find that heroin is much cheaper, it’s that their doctors who prescribed (and very often over prescribed) it cut them off and now they’re a junkie looking for whatever they can afford to get a fix.

It actually is becoming more of a thing now with middle class folks because they get hooked on prescription opiates, and then find heroin is much cheaper.