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[useragarfield]

I know what it looks like when you’re in love with someone.

BILLY DUNNE & DAISY JONES Daisy Jones & the Six | “Looks Like We Made It” 1.08 (2023)

[captain-hen]

BUCK & EDDIE IN EVERY EPISODE ↳ 5.13: fear-o-phobia

[ifgodwillsendhisangels]

hi quick question. this you?

[compassionatereminders]

Like even if a person is addicted to heroin or another "scary" drug, what we as a society could and SHOULD do is make sure that the heroin is as safe as it can be, and that he has the resources and knowledge required to prevent infections, injuries, overdoses and other serious health risks, and that relevant rehab, treatment, support and detox programs are available to him if/when he decides he wants to pursue them. Punishing him as a dangerous criminal for being an addict isn't going to shame him out of addiction, and that approach is genuinely far more likely to literally kill him than to actually solve the issue

[angrylesbianstereotype]

How often do you think Jesse thinks ab how he killed an innocent man in cold blood to save the life of the man who, unbeknownst to him, watched his girlfriend choke to death on her own vomit and then left her corpse for him to find laying next to him in the morning? Do y’all think he ever fully came to grips with that bc I sure as shit don’t… What the FUCK Walter

[promptsforyourwhumpfic]

Whump Prompt #1332

TW: Substance Abuse | Overdose

Anon asked:

Do you have some prompts for a whumpee struggling with substance abuse after some bad things happening in their life, and their friend / caretaker supporting them through it?

A few:

Maybe the caretaker notices erratic behaviour and decides to address it gently. This could lead to a discussion, or even an argument if the whumpee tries to deny it despite the evidence being clear. (Why do they try to deny it? Are they ashamed? Embarrassed? Worried about what people are going to think?)

The caretaker could find out about the abuse when the whumpee hits rock bottom. They could get a call from the hospital/a concerned friend etc. Maybe they haven't heard from the whumpee in a few days, so decide to do a welfare check of sorts. They could get there just in time to witness the whumpee overdosing.

Does the whumpee relapse? Do the caretakers threaten to give up on them?

^ I like the idea of the caretaker saying that in private, but the whumpee accidentally overhears.

During recovery they celebrate small victories - a day sober, three days sober, a week sober etc etc. It becomes tradition to get a cake for every milestone. Maybe at a longer milestone - when the whumpee as gotten much better - it's not until late at night that they realise it's a milestone day. Their only option is to go to a gas station to find a cake, but their only choices are the questionable hotdogs, flowers, a chocolate bar, or even more questionable sushi.

At first the whumpee rejects professional help, but seeing the strain it puts on the caretakers, they decide to seek out a therapist.

Don't forget the withdrawal symptoms.

What kind of coping mechanisms do they put in place? Chewing gum? Knitting? Folding laundry?

On the emotional side - the whumpee has to work very hard to repair the relationships they damaged.

[gracelyns]

11x17 Red Meat truly insane episode. saved person of the week chokes sam because he's understood that the brothers' codependency will kill his wife. dean overdoses to talk to billie but sam wasn't actually dead, just shot and losing blood. after many hours of just being left there on the floor with no food or a bandage on his wound or anything he kills two werewolves in thirty seconds then drives to the hospital where he shoots another werewolf. dean tells sam he's always known he was alive. DID HE EVER TELL HIM? DID HE EVER TELL HIM THAT HE KILLED HIMSELF???

[newsfromstolenland]

there's been a spike in fentanyl related overdoses and deaths in york region in ontario which is right by where I live

so in light of that, I just want to give a few reminders:

if you're using, please keep a naloxone kit nearby (you can get them free at most pharmacies)

if possible, get fentanyl test strips, to test your stuff for fentanyl

if you can, having someone nearby that can help administer naloxone, comfort you if you have a bad high, or even just remind you that you're not alone, can be extremely helpful

if there's a supervised/safe consumption site near you, consider making use of it! the people and resources are there to support you, it's okay to engage with them!

most of all, stay safe. stay alive. the world's a better place with you in it.

[thiccpersonality]

Summary:

After cleaning and double checking everything, Jason puts the vacuum back with a grunt at how heavy it felt under his stressed body, the pup leans against the closet door and frowns when his stomach growls. He doesn't really feel like eating after everything that's happened...but he knows his mom would want him to feed himself, which is why Jason hobbles over to the fridge and curses when he opens it to find nothing.

He forgot...his mom was planning on going shopping after his birthday for food, she was planning on taking him out for his dinner and never got the chance to.

(If anyone sees this it's no pressure to check the fic out. Just a warning it is a/b/o, has abuse and mentions of Jason's mom's overdose among other things. Oh! And Omega Bruce referred to as mom...because I felt like it for some reason XD.

You lovelies stay safe, happy, healthy and of course lovely as always. 💛)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

British Columbia's auditor general says two government programs aimed at curbing the death toll from the toxic-drug crisis were not "effectively implemented" by the province's Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and Ministry of Health.

Michael Pickup's office released a report Tuesday on the government's overdose prevention and supervised consumption services and the first phase of the prescribed safer-supply program, launched amid a public-health emergency that has claimed more than 14,000 lives.

[...]

The audit found the ministries' guidance didn't include minimum service standards that ensured consistent quality and access of services, that it did not adequately respond to barriers such as local government resistance, and that a new program evaluation was needed as the health emergency evolved.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

NPD system culture is OD"ing on panadol (we're okay!) because one alter was in a narc high and didnt believe they could be harmed by it and the other one was trying to kill himself

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[trans-axolotl]

found out yesterday that one of the organizers i do harm reduction outreach with just died, and i'm really crushed. today's overdose awareness day and there has already been so many people who died this year--there's been 600 fatal overdoses and about 1/3 of those have been people we knew because we provide harm reduction services to them. almost every outreach shift we learn someone has died that week. we're having an event/memorial today for overdose awareness day and it just hurts even more to know that they're gone, too. so many fucking people we're grieving + so many preventable deaths--the war on drugs fucking kills and i am so, so fucking livid about it.

[lifeinpoetry]

It's okay now for me to write a little about the family crisis that was going on from March-May on top of the mental health stuff now that my sister has made a public post about it.

My niece, S., was born at the beginning of March but came down with meningitis by her second day of life. There were failures at all levels of care for both my sister and baby S., both of them nearly died, and S. wasn't released from the NICU until the very end of April.

Right now they're in the wait and see stage of seeing what effects the illness had on S. but we're all hoping for the best. Can't say much more because it wouldn't be fair to my sister and S.

Major depression has lifted for real this time, it's been weeks of being at my regular level of depression though more stuff re: to the schizophrenic side of things recently but that's probably stress-related because Bear, our dog, is at the point where we're discussing quality of life. It's bringing up a lot related to previous putting off of care for both humans and pets in crisis/near crisis moments. Remembering the overdose at 17 where the parent that was home discovered me and allowed me to take a shower and just generally took no action until my other parent got home and took me to the ER, couldn't walk without support by the time we got there. Is it a freeze response for that parent that they can't jump into action, I honestly haven't ever gotten an answer.

I know I really need to get back into posting, btw. Hopefully they've fixed the issue which was making unique spacing in poems impossible, I was not made for the screenshotting life.

[bougiebutchbitch]

:c

Wilson asked House out on Christmas Eve (most romantic night of the year) but House turned him down to pop pills that he stole from Wilson’s dead patient and then fucking overdosed and then Wilson showed up just in time to save him and then -

HE THROWS THE EMPTY POT AT HIM AND WALKS AWAY WHILE HE’S STILL OD’ING HOLY FUCK

[sims-for-semi]

BABY WAKE UP NEW PLEASANTVIEW HEADCANON JUST DROPPED

credits @pinofurude on tiktok 🤭

[neuroticboyfriend]

i swear to god when i dont take my seroquel, i feel alive. in some ways, i feel better after passing out from drugs than i do when i wake up off seroquel. and i'm hungover and probably going through withdrawal (if not now, soon). like. what.

i hate seroquel. i always have. i'm still tapering myself down. i've been on antipsychotics for 8 years. no more. i'm done. this is my body and i'm going to give it a chance to exist without a fucking "chemical lobotomy" and the ever-growing risk of serious/fatal long term effects over my head. i know drugs are killing me too but if i can minimize the number of harmful substances i'm taking, that's a win. especially since seroquel alongside everything has been the nail in the coffin when i OD.

my body. it's mine. not my psychiatrists. mine.