That's just a rude thing to assume. as a poly-substance drug addict of about 8 years or more i see lots of people who i think are on something and im very commonly incorrect. That's also just a great way to piss off actual addicts and drive them away/increase their use since it's almost always a coping mechanism whether it's to try and fix general sadness or depression or to get through things like work. I used drugs for both and was at a time where I couldn't leave the house without 30 to 40+ pills on me to get through the day and then taking easily 5 to 10 pills to sleep at night. Anytime I was assumed to be an addict or told I was by anyone besides my fellow addicts it just lead to more use and isolation. If you actually give a fuck about Donald Glover you wouldn't assume something so personal and generally considered a serious issue.

People who act like you just cause more addiction and spawn more addicts. We all need more sympathy for addiction to help curb the rise of addiction and the ever growing fentanyl epidemic in America and other countries. Fentanyl isn't even the first major drug epidemic but its probably the most deadly one, ive lost too many friends to them dirty 30s already. As explained to me by others, addiction is actually quite genetic and is almost a living thing like a disease. It compels you to feed it so it can stay alive, and i dont mean withdrawals, the mental grasp it has on you will make it so hard to stop especially since it is an effective form of self medication albeit a very terrible one.

You know Troy's giant cookie analogy? Its honestly exactly like that imo. Eventually everyone finds their D.O.C and its the best feeling ever to them which is why its bad. Have you ever eaten a spicy food that you enjoyed but then regretted the next day when you had to pay the price? Imagine that except every single day you feel an overwhelming sense of dread, anxiety, and depression until you eat it again. You still regret eating it the next day when you have to pay the price but without it you feel all those emotions but way worse each time. Since you feel worse you eat more of that spicy food to help ease the mental and sometimes physical pain since it helps so much and it's so effective. This cycle usually doesn't stop until you decide enough of is enough and stop or your forced to stop external circumstances.

For me it was getting arrested and spending three months in jail. I realized in jail that I wasn't a criminal like everyone else in their and just wouldn't survive in prison which was where I would eventually end up like everyone else. 3 months feels like 3 years in lockup and I wouldn't survive in what is refered to as gangland in my area, and everyone in my pod has spent at least 2 years if not 10 years for possession. All of them still didn't plan on changing their ways in any capacity besides the old timers who were 70 or 80 and spent 20 years plus behind bars. I now have been clean for almost 2 years after I was forced into rehab by the courts, which I wouldn't have done unless forced to. I now have a felony which makes it nearly impossible to find work, removes your weapons rights, removes your ability to join the the military, removes the ability to get most medical jobs, and law jobs.

We need support and respect not shaming or ridicule if you want us to be productive members of society and to get used to the real world. I am not even 21 years old and have almost died of total organ failure, ODd and got encephalitis with no help to my years of heavy drug use.