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You don't know s*** about me so don't presume to think you do. One thing I can guarantee you, he doesn't have my shoulder to cry on. Just saying the circumstances that led up to his addiction are awfully shity, and and if the people on his team would have gave him the help that he asked for he wouldn't be in the mess that he is in.
Again, the kid didn't choose to be addicted to painkillers. He was an 18 year old kid that was told that if he didn't take care of it he was going to lose his big dollar Factory ride.
So many people in this thread are absolutely naive to the beginnings of addiction. I'll also say that a lot of you were coming down hard on a kid that is just one of several in this industry. Painkillers are a rapid problem in this sport, a little hidden secret nobody wants you to know about.
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Once they cut him off, he ran away from home, came back home broke into the house beat up his mother and took everything he can get his hands on, including her wedding ring. This was an extremely good kid who is nothing but a mama's boy all of his life.
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Here a nice little thing to think about. There is more people in this world whom have taken pain pills and not gotten addicted, then those that have. So prove its the pills or the Dr. that prescribes the pills fault and not the users. Is it a mental issue that some people are born with? Maybe, but then again there is a good amount of people whom have beaten addiction, even after years of abuse, so how can you explain that if its just a "disease".
Fact is its the user's choice. It sucks to hear and see, but for me its hard to feel sympathy for. I watched my bro get drugged out of his mind with Oxy when he hurt himself and was at the ER for a few weeks. Yet, he hasn't taken a pill since he got out of physical therapy (almost a year now). My father was also prescribed some heavy pain killers (cant remember exactly what they were) when he broke his back and a separate time when he completely destroyed his shoulder, yet never had an issue throwing the pills out after a few weeks. Personally, I havent taken anything stronger then some high strength Tylenol (no major injuries so far and hopefully never) so i cant completely say I know what its like, but again look around. There are tons of everyday people that have had extreme injuries at all different ages and been prescribed pain killers that never had issues with addiction. Btw, I do have family members that are/were drug addicts as well, so dont think that I feel this way simply because no one in my family has had an addiction.
I feel horrible for his kid and hope that he/she can learn from his mistakes and make better decisions.
It is an incredibly ignorant thing to look at a huge world issue such as prescription drug addiction and simplify it down to "its the users choice". I understand that your life experiences have lead you to that perception of this issue. And I get where you're coming from.
But if it were really that simple, it wouldn't be such a prominent issue.
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