@drainedeyes4268

1 year ago

I’m a recovering opiate addict and also a big fan. Here’s the thing, if he wasn’t who he was, none of you would care at all, most wouldn’t anyways. And as addicts, we are very insecure about talking about our addictions, so we find other ways around the core reason we kept taking them (as artists anyways)- because they calmed down our over worked out of control emotions. Opiates specifically don’t just put you to sleep, they fill you with intense euphoria for hours, and it’s Heaven on earth, removes every possible bad thing for a while. If you watch the FULL clip, he explains that it was because he was struggling with the emotional turmoil that came from going on stage to thousands of screaming people to going back on the road, alone and unstable. He was also trying other drugs, smoking weed, coke, and whatever else he may have tried. I’m not saying this to down him, I love Matty and I empathize with him very strongly. But when I have ever talked about my own addiction issues, seems like most just want me to shut up because it’s so uncomfortable. This is why talk therapy and NA/AA is so important for addicts, because the general public can’t understand it, and they usually don’t want to hear about it. It’s pretty sad, but what’s worse is the industry built around soaking up post addicts money once they get into treatment. Most addiction treatment is incredibly expensive, and effective treatment is unaffordable to most. I’ve around 500 dollars a month on opioid treatment for the last 7 years, and I’m just now about to be done with it - specifically because I decided the clinics I was going to had no intention of helping me at all. I’m spending 8000 right now, all my savings from my severance package just to get actual help getting off the more addictive drugs I was put on to help me stay clean from street drugs. Opiate treatment is vampiric and parasitic - put all addicts on Suboxone at the highest possible dose for the longest time possible with no way of getting off. I was on street drugs for two years, yet I’ve been on Sub for 7 years lol when they could have put me on a minimal dose for a couple months at most and helped me stay clean afterward. But nah, the system in the US is dog farts, and it’s built and running off our backs, not anyone else’s, and the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors love it, and it probably won’t change because it makes so much money. I appreciate it if anyone at all actually read through the whole thing, I’d be very shocked lol.

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