| Comment | You're right, they are fucking disgusting a lot of the time and there's no excuses for their behaviour. But really, people getting into that state for a reason and we're only going to see more of them with the pressures put on mental health and the economic situation. See this thread?
https://old.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/igrx71/moving_to_glasgow_for_uni_in_a_few_weeks_and_ive/
Well, maybe one of them "fucking disgusting smack heads" was once that guy, but never got the support or compassion people need in that situation. People can descend quickly, and I think that's often forgotten.
I like this quote from a psychologist who worked with drug addicts for 30 years in Vancouver:
"The question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.” And the source of pain is always and invariably to be found in a person's lived experience, beginning with childhood".
I wish we lived in a country that felt like it had a bit of a net to fall in for people heading in that direction. But we don't. Quite the opposite a lot of the time with the stigma around drug abuse & homelessness. I'm just not sure how the 'what a fucking smackhead' mentality towards these people help them. A lot of them are shit humans, like this one, but chances are there was a decent person there once and they've been though a lot. |
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