This podcast talks about addictions of a diverse nature, from mild to severe degrees of drugs and alcohol addictions, to gambling, sexual and other manifestations. A personal account of receiving pain killers such as Demerol in the emergency room, the version of IV that was implemented for my severe pain of gout in both ankles, the experience was no doubt above elation, a sensation at the time was alien to me, it was like a magic potion, the pain suddenly subsided as if I were in another realm of paradise. That experience alone has qualified myself to project that addiction to opioids is a serious matter. I understand 100% how this potion, this pain killer can become something so insatiable to someone that the need for it beyond any severe pain is understandable. Addictions happen because of whatever the content one consumes, it is merely for a so-called high, an escape from reality. Once addictions produces a fictitious lifestyle, their truth, their existence become negligent, producing a slow to rapid decent into obscurity, and even death caused by different serious factors, and worst of all suicide. Addictions of any kind that is negative in one's life needs to be addressed at a juncture well ahead of disaster.
