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Mad_As_Hell ago

Remember when Ohio police released a photo of heroin addict parents and their kid that went viral? Made me feel very icky at the time https://www.rt.com/usa/358843-ohio-parents-heroin-child/

SpikyAube ago

That makes me SO ANGRY. The parents obviously OD'd because whatever drugs they got hold of weren't what they were used to or what they were told it was. The kid looks healthy - they were probably good parents if it wasn't for the addiction. And if drugs like heroin were legal and controlled, they would not have OD;d and would have likely been more able to get over the addiction because it wouldn't be admitting to a criminal offence to seek help for it. And they post this picture to shame them, and of course this will shame the kid too one day. Yeah the parents were irresponsible and fucking awful for doing drugs they weren't even sure of in the car with their child, but the whole way the system and society is set up was massively skewed against them and anyone who happens to get addicted to anything. Unsurprisingly, a huge majority of drug users are actually attempting to self-medicate some kind of mental disorder such as anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, etc. Because our society is set up in such a way that it literally drives people mad while making them think the problem is all on them and they have to just find any way to keep going.

And then they take a picture of this whole complex interplay of laws and pressures and prejudices and human fallibiity and present it as a single judgemental snapshot of an open and shut case of simple depravity. Sick.

Mad_As_Hell ago

Totally. It's even worse when you know the CIA and others have been profiting from heroin addicts' misery. The one silver lining in this case is that the kid was sent to live with relations rather than being farmed out to CPS