Place intractable physical pain in there.
Still, you seem to be categorizing a class of people with the drug you use.
Smoking pot can be said to have the same effect, removing people from their...existential angst. But we don't typically claim they smoke to escape any more than we drink...
Why? Why must opiate addicted folk be low on the socioeconomic scale? Why must they have deep emotional or family problems?
Aren't the rich, like,rush Limbaugh, liable to become addicted? The more well to do have the same motivations but are less likely to land in legal trouble..
It...
Just goes to show you, the grand old party maintains a big tent, all are welcome, Rittenhouse, stone, Flynn and manchin, Gaetz, green, all the big names.
If you want to peek under the hood of the gang in blue, watch incidences if "puppicide" the killing of dogs by officers in uniform. Thousands a year, every year. They claim, after they have shot chained dogs, dogs behind fences, dogs of every size, that they were in fear for their safety...
Now that's funny. Folks are already bitching about the new improved cost of commodities in the u.s. imagine what inflation would look like if we had to pay triple the price of spatchulas, toaster ovens and clothing because it was all manufactured in the states.
Religious reasons usually mean "they put aborted fetuses in there and God told me abortions will send me to hell"
I knew the cell line was old and decades removed from that aborted kidney but what I really never comprehended was the reasoning behind their use. Seems the cells are used to...
Figure there are far more od fatalities than folks who have been jailed or imprisoned for long enough to have significantly reduced their tolerance.
And the idea that "most" od resulting in death are among "criminals" is a little bit naive.
I posted that my wife's boss, the one that refused to enact just a few simple safeguards that forced her to quit, very recently died....of covid.
The worst is our inability to raise him from his coffin and shout to his fucking fat face " we told you".
There is even more. I prided myself for not gaining weight during the lockdown. I looked good, my friend bloated up.
But in in the last few months, no legitimate exercise, enhanced alcohol consumption, naps at all hours and an unquenchable desire for sweets I have finally put on twenty...
Just what I said, it stinks. Seems to..maybe...maybe.. induce a bit extra clarity. I think I have less trouble conjuring words, maybe I can come up with actors names easier than "that guy, you know, the one who was in that movie about indians".