Addiction
Posted on | June 11, 2007 | 45 Comments
I was readin this morning about the number of people looking for help for cocaine use has increased a huge amount in the last couple of years. 482 people were treated in 2005, compared to 48 in 1999.
Obviously that has a lot to do with the increased availability of the drug. I’m pretty sure you can get it in most supermarkets these days.
Panadol. Hedex. Anadin. Calpol. Cocaine.
Still, I do wonder about people who abuse drugs like cocaine, or even alcohol. I don’t really understand anyone who goes out, gets absolutely battered and then does it all over again with the same stuff the next day.
Now, I’m as fond of a drink as the next man but there are times when I’ve had rather too much the night before and the thoughts of another drink makes me want to vomit out of my arse, back into my mouth then dribble it out of my nose in a cup before glugging it all down again. That’s the whole point of the hangover, isn’t it? It’s your body saying “FUCK YOU, FUCKER. GIVE ME A BREAK.”
Why is it that some people can ignore that or choose to ignore it? Are they like weird people that don’t feel any pain? Is it some kind of genetic defect that they can simply carry on doing the thing that makes them feel so shit and as such they become an alcoholic or a cocaine addict? Do they lack common sense?
Shouldn’t we, as a society, not be concentrating on finding out why people are addicts rather than trying to treat them? Anyone who becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol should be rounded up and brought to a special camp of some kind where all manner of experiments could be carried out until we have discovered why it is they are addicted and other people are not.
Then we can simply create a vaccine which can be administered to all children (and after a few years we’ll have streamlined it so the side effects and physical mutations it causes are minimised) and lo and behold you have no more addicts which means safer streets, less crime and less witless, boring cunts waffling non-stop in your ear at parties.
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June 11th, 2007 @ 9:16 am
….mmmmmmm…. vaccine
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:28 am
Shouldn’t we, as a society, not be concentrating on finding out why people are addicts rather than trying to treat them? Anyone who becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol should be rounded up and brought to a special camp of some kind where all manner of experiments could be carried out until we have discovered why it is they are addicted and other people are not.
That’s called rehab. or Re-rehab or even re-re-rehab for some. It’s like Hotel California: “you can check out any time you want but you can never leave.” It’s probably because it’s usualy run by left-wing softies.
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:30 am
No, rehab is for ponces. They don’t do experiments on DNA and frontal lobes in rehab, do they?
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:36 am
Do people like Britney have Frontal lobes ?
We know she has nice honeymoon appendages and flaps, so what more could we ask of a woman ?
p.s. a doctor told me that a hang over is baby jesus punishing sinners.
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:49 am
In my 20 years or so of drinking, I havent had a hangover. For most of those years there was an absolute bucket of narcotics consumed at the same time so I thought I was on the same boat as Paul Merson and others who offset one problem with another and lo! no hangover. Then I saw the light, got a job that required a vast amount of concentration and an absenteeism level below one day a week, not to mention the dependents to support and all of that. So I jacked in the chemicals cos the paranoia wasn’t that much fun anymore mainly due to having no one else my age in the same state all the time, I was living a pseudo dream of being the only respectable drug addict in the office.
So after about 3 months of pure sobriety during which time I did about 15 years worth of work, you may recall one or two panic postings about this time last year Twenty, I went and had a pint with my new work colleagues who just thought I was a grand lad. A feast of pints were had, a powerful kebab was consumed, shite was spoken to a very nice taxi driver, less than 6 hours sleep and I was up the following morning and no fucking hangover!!
This has been tested severely over the last 12 months. Pressure testing has been carried out using a multi-assorted array of drinks permutations. Pints, shorts and even fruit based cocktail drinks for the ladies have been downed in all manner of volumes. The only thing that is noticeable is that I need to sleep more. But if I need to get up early then I will and no fucking headache.
I would kill for a hangover. Just once. To be able to sit at my desk with a forehead seeking to tear me a new one, and cry in anguish that I will not be joining anyone for a pint this evening, cos I’m going home to be nursed back to health.
Wouldn’t mind so much but thanks to age and all of that I’m a total arse after about 6 pints these days.
Enjoy your hangovers and pain and rehab and all those other things that will probably ensure that you always know your own limit. Nothing worse than going out knowing you won’t feel any pain the following day.
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:58 am
Ubollix – says in the bible that only the antichrist doesn’t get hangovers. You cunt.
June 11th, 2007 @ 10:08 am
More power to you Maggot, I could never read the bible, too much verily and begetting for me.
June 11th, 2007 @ 10:23 am
Obviously you’re ripe for the experimentation, Ubollix. Think of what you could give to society.
June 11th, 2007 @ 10:36 am
“Now, I’m as fond of a drink as the next man but there are times when I’ve had rather too much the night before and the thoughts of another drink makes me want to vomit out of my arse, back into my mouth then dribble it out of my nose in a cup before glugging it all down again. That’s the whole point of the hangover, isn’t it? It’s your body saying “FUCK YOU, FUCKER. GIVE ME A BREAK.”
Thank GOD for hangovers…its gods way of keeping me good.
June 11th, 2007 @ 11:10 am
D’you know, I’ve often thought how alcoholics manage the non-stop hangover side of things. Do they become alcoholics to numb the pain of an alcohol comedown? Cokeheads, on the other hand, simply have too much fucking money and that’s easily cured.
June 11th, 2007 @ 11:15 am
Cokeheads, on the other hand, simply have too much fucking money and that’s easily cured.
Are you saying they should be raped by panthers? Because if you are I agree wholeheartedly.
June 11th, 2007 @ 11:21 am
African American revolutionaries? Because that’s a stereotype and therefore racist.
June 11th, 2007 @ 11:23 am
So, tell me, Twenty; would it massively piss you off if I said that I don’t get hangovers? At all*. Thus I am happy to go back on the piss the very next morning after a long night of drink, sex, drugs and rock’n'roll.
DK
*Unless I drink Stella, but then who would want to drink that shite, eh?
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
You disappoint me, Twenty. The only good cure for a hangover is more beer. It’s a vicious cycle.
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:14 pm
I started getting hangovers in my mid-twenties and have had one every morning since (for obvious reasons).
The upside is, by the time I get home from work it’s usually worn off, so come 6 o’clock I’m up and running smoothly again, and can get cracking on my daily ration of (currently) two bottles of white wine.
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
Are you an alcoholic, drug addict DK?
J5 – I find when I’m pooing molten lava that the desire for beer fades rapidly.
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:19 pm
Nobody actually WANTS to drink when hungover but once you perservere past the first pint, which usually takes over an hour to drink, the pain subsides.
MAN UP
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:19 pm
unfair to blame the booze for the kebab/curry burns Twenty!
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:38 pm
Persons who enjoy cocaine should be incarcerated in a small room (a toilet would do fine) and force-snorted coke until they cry, ‘Please, no more!’. Those who enjoy the experience should be experimented upon, as you suggest, and their assets confiscated by the state.
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
And the silliest thing is that people pay for the privilege of feeling like molton poo. Serving beers for a long time really puts you off grog :{{ bleahk.
June 11th, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
My brother in-law isn’t an alco, but he’s pretty close to being one.
I’ve seen him drinking his first pint the morning after, three times he puked the mouthful he had just taken back into the glass. But he kept going and got it into him
June 11th, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
Thank God for Solpadeine. I take two before I go to bed and I wake up fine. Now, if my liver could talk………
June 11th, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
Twenty it almost makes me feel guilty for getting so drunk on saturday while competing in a Drinking challenge but I guess the fact I did not drink on sunday means I am not an alcoholic. Of course after drinking lots of Guinness there is nothing better than a pint of Magners poured over Ice the next day, especially if its drank in the Sun.
June 11th, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
MarkWads!two bottles of white wine, when do you actualy have a drink?
June 11th, 2007 @ 2:02 pm
..and of course the other great cure for the hangover is sex….particularly if you find someone willing enough to participate in the activity with you who doesn’t mind beer burps while you are having the ride…great cure
June 11th, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
“Why is it that some people can ignore that or choose to ignore it? Are they like weird people that don’t feel any pain? Is it some kind of genetic defect that they can simply carry on doing the thing that makes them feel so shit and as such they become an alcoholic or a cocaine addict? Do they lack common sense?”
Jaysis, you’re a simple shite sometimes Twenty. Addicts have an ADDICTION, so carry on drinking/snorting/whatever despite how much pain they’re feeling. In fact, most would carry on drinking/snorting/whatever to get over the come-down, and thus the snowballing begins. Common sense goes right out the window.
June 11th, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
The only time I ever tried cocaine was once when I was pleasantly drunk at a party. That powdered crap sobered me up immediately. Wide awake I was and lucid as a light bulb having been rudely torn from the loving arms of tipsiness. It was like having a bucket of cold water chucked over you half way through foreplay. I felt so fucking cheated and traumatized that I swore never to touch the stuff again and have been true to my word ever since.
So, I’d recommend that all parents use this technique with their teenage offspring to ward them off the evils of drug use.
June 11th, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
Jaysis, you’re a simple shite sometimes Twenty. Addicts have an ADDICTION, so carry on drinking/snorting/whatever despite how much pain they’re feeling.
Ah thanks for clearing that up. It had never occurred to me.
June 11th, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
Addiction me hole, this disease bullshit about addiction has taken over the fucking world…. people have a CHOICE everyday about whether to drink, ride, gamble or coke thier heads off…that’s not a feckin disease.
Cancer..now there’s a fucking disease, i just lost one of my best mates to it yesterday, which possibly explains why i get so fucking angry whenever i hear this “addiction is a disease and i’m a victim shite”
Next time you get cancer, try going to a 12 step cult about it and see how far it gets you, shower of miserable, self indulgent, whinging ….. oh it’s been good to get that off my chest.
June 11th, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
sorry….did i not sign that?…
June 11th, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
Cancer..now there’s a fucking disease, i just lost one of my best mates to it yesterday, which possibly explains why i get so fucking angry whenever i hear this “addiction is a disease and i’m a victim shite”
Exactly. Sorry about your buddy.
June 11th, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
never mind all that, have you wrote them two books yet?
June 11th, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
Alfie, I am a middle-aged married man with young children who has a four or five-hour drinking window every evening, two bottles just fills it out nicely, I am not a drunkard or anything.
June 11th, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
There are people who lose control over their drug-taking (drinking being only the most widespread, tolerated and therefore most destructive form of it) and who clearly need to stop doing it, but can’t on their own. Not necessarily because they’re weak or stupid, either. If AA/12-step/Higher Power-type stuff helps them, then in many cases it’s a lesser evil. Calling it a cult is just nonsense. Incidentally, the so-called disease model, while I don’t fully subscribe to it, is not really about saying ‘I’m a victim, it’s not my fault’. The first thing any addict has to do is face the truth (a) about their addiction, and (b) about their responsibility for their own actions. You won’t hear an AA-er say any different from that, and I’ve met a few.
June 11th, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
Are you an alcoholic, drug addict DK?
The answer to that depends on whether you talk to me or my friends, Twenty…
DK
June 11th, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
And I thought I was an old geezer. you’re past it before yer time.
June 11th, 2007 @ 8:38 pm
Shared an office with a roaring alcholic once. Fucking useless, dependant, self absorbed wanksock. Sympathy my hole.
The Borg eventually managed to get rid of him. TBTF.
June 11th, 2007 @ 8:57 pm
Anyone got any gear?
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
going to volunteer to help find the smoking vaccine, twenty?
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
I can stop any time I want.
June 11th, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
I hate people who only drink when they are thirsty.
June 11th, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
Studies over the years have shown that about 5% of a population become addicted to things like cocaine, marijuana, diet pepsi. Were serious drugs made legal, that five percent figure wouldn’t budge. The biggest difference would be that the State would take in what the John Gilligans of the world now get.
June 12th, 2007 @ 10:00 am
I think, in fairness, that we are (well not we, because we’re not) trying to find out why people are prone to addiction and in fact they’ve pretty much figured a lot of it out. Psychiatrists and psychologists and neurologists….and I’m not talking about the muppets who go around talking about co-dependency and addictive personalities, I mean real scientific research.
June 13th, 2007 @ 12:06 am
I’m addicted to wanking. Just can’t stop meself.
But please, it’s OK, I like it.
And I can type with one hand……
June 14th, 2007 @ 1:49 am
Forget that coke shite: skull pints of porter, smoke decent weed with your mates and drink water before hitting the laba – that’s how you avoid the hangover.
After nearly eight years of living in Dublin, I finally found the source of proper skunk and my hangover problems were cured.
Now though, some Dutch arse bandit is covering the fruity SK with a dessicant for added weight (silica i think, the stuff you find in a fresh pair o runners) and it’s fucking with my bellows.
I stopped smoking the grit weed and the damned hangovers came back.