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arctic-hands · 8 months

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Nineties to Two thousands drug hysteria really did a number on people. I was riding my bike with my neighbor in the alley behind our houses when I came across those plastic filter tips mouth piece thing for joints and not knowing what it was but knowing it was litter I began to pick them up to throw away when my dad just happened to look over and see what I was doing, I showed him the trash and he blew up at me saying that it was for drugs and now the scent is on my hands and if a cop comes by they'll be able to detect it and I'll go to jail and I began to get really scared and also this memory I'm Nine Years Old

#drug hysteria #90s kid #d.a.r.e

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marlowe1-blog · 7 months

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"Just Say No to The Drug War" by William S. Burroughs (High Risk)

I think this is the next bit in the book

I'm too lazy to get up and check the book so there might be a story in between this one and the previous poems, but it's 10:30 at night and I walked around trying to put up flyers for the writing work and I'm tired. Seriously I think I might go to sleep now and actually get some damn sleep.

This is a good essay. This is a persuasive essay where Burroughs has beat his old drum about how drug hysteria is bullshit and how people should be left alone to do what they want. He also notes that in places where drugs are treated like a public health issue with prescriptions for heroin we don't see junkies on the street and there is less addiction.

He even argues that most people don't really want to do heroin. That's actually pretty true. I liked marijuana and alcohol just fine but even then I grew out of them. I joke that I would love to try heroin when I'm 90 and it doesn't matter but when I'm 90 I have no clue what my health will be like.

And he hits his same phrases that he likes including the mean pinched up faces and the N---- killing lawmen with notches on their belts. But mostly he's here to say what most of us already know. The war on drugs is racist and it only makes things worse.

The irony is that if every drug addict was like William S. Burroughs, it would have been a public health crisis instead of a moral indictment that made the prison industrial complex prosper. Burroughs was a wealthy heir to a family that supported him with money and legal assistance. Imagine if all the drug addicts were privileged white people. Maybe not privileged white people with millionaire families.

So is it better or worse that Burroughs is talking about drug wars even with his privilege? Who knows.

Either way, it seems like the editors wanted Burroughs in the anthology because he's famous and he did what he wanted. Had they published a few years later, he might have put in excerpts from his cat book.

#William S Burroughs #rhetoric #drug war #drug hysteria #money #heroin #sad #prisons #prison industrial complex #addiction #junkies #white people #white privilege

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annarexcouture · 4 months

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denipra · 11 months

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Megan fox is my sweetheart <3

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fatalebridget · 1 year

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#aesthetic #girlblogging #grunge #trippy #hippie #female hysteria #witch #90s icons #dank memes #ascension #starseed #rock of love #i want my mtv #vh1 #cowboy #stoner #weed queen #drugs #girls that like drugs

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newm8n · 11 days

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HIT ME ! ✮

I WANNA BLEED MORE ! ✮✮

thirteen 2003

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draft-rei · 2 months

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need a black top/hoodie w cool white writing in the back, send links or suggest stores :p

also if anyone knows any shows w a character that has a similar style lmk

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manicpixieangel444 · 3 days

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𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘮𝘨 𝘰𝘮𝘨 ✮⋆

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buerbies · 10 days

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"i check it, i wreck it, i turn it around" - lana del rey

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arctic-hands · 6 months

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Drug hysteria is so dumb. My sleep specialist says my anxiety isn't being controlled by coping strats and that's why I can't sleep and I should be on a medication for it, but then she emphasized "not benzos!" and like my psych clinic isn't even authorized to prescribe benzos in the first place, which the receptionist repeated when I asked to schedule with my psychiatrist which I already knew because I asked for some motherfucking valium a few years ago because I had frequent panic attacks. So I'm not entirely sure what even I could be on in the first place to ease my anxiety enough to sleep at night

And like the whole basis for refusing to apply for a benzos license or whatever they need to do to be able to prescribe it is because they don't want to create or fuel a drug addiction but it's not being addicted to drugs if you genuinely need to be on a medicine to function or have an improved quality of life. Like I'm not addicted to the lamictal they're prescribing for me as a mood stabilizer even tho missing just one dose will put me in excruciating withdrawal that makes me feel like I'm dying. My friend was on cymbalta for fibro and that's known as one of the worst withdrawals in medicine but she still wasn't addicted to it just because she needed it. I frequently take high doses of prednisone for my Crohn's and withdrawal from that without tapering off could give me a heart attack–it still doesn't mean I'm addicted to steroids.

To top it all off I've never even displayed any risk factors for addiction and I've been on a fuckton of medication. Hell I'm not even addicted to coffee, I suffer no withdrawal signs at all when I stop even tho I drink obscene amounts of it. I just go back to sleeping fourteen or sixteen hours a day like I was my chronically ill ass was doing before I started drinking the stuff. And you know what? That shouldn't matter in the first place because even those with risk factors for addiction deserve to be treated for whatever medical condition they have.

And do not even get me started on being disabled and a chronic pain patient who needs opioids to have any sort of pain reduction that would improve their Q.o.L

#drug hysteria #please i just want to sleep

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franksthoughtdaughter · 2 days

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lexigggg · 7 months

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sex. drugs. money. skinny.

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denipra · 11 months

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Alexa Demie in her lifelong ,,dark feminine,, era

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annarexcouture · 5 months

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#drug blog #drugblr #girls who drink #girlblogging #girlblogger #female hysteria #trashy coquette #trashy 2000s #this is a girlblog #manic pixie dream girl #effy stonem #effy skins

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g1rl-int3rupted · 2 months

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pic not mine

#girlhood #female hysteria #girlblogging #girlblogger #it is what it is #i’m just a girl #hell is a teenage girl #lizzy grant #sylvanian families #girl interrupted syndrome #literally insane #don’t do drugs kids

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draft-rei · 4 months

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second semester is gonna be bad

i just found out an old friend will be in my classes next semester and i dont think we really have problems but she found out the first semester that i had an addiction so then she blocked me on everything and never spoke to me again, anyways idrc about her i j kinda wished she wasn’t w me in my classes. i dont think she’ll talk to me or about me but in general i just dont know how to deal with the situation. i also dont have any friends in uni anymore, none that i can see in classes at least, but i dont feel like making new friends because its so much lost effort, and i was fine not having friends in classes but now idk. i hate being alone in a place where ik someone doesnt like me so. idk lol what do u think i should do (also my second semester starts in a week)

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