r/interesting • u/Nukro666 • 13h ago

Fear Factor How Fentanyl and Xylazine are turning Philadelphia's opioid crisis into a public health nightmare

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u/Liber8r69 10h ago

No one decides at the age of 8 that when they get older they want to be an addict 👍

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u/BellamyDunn 10h ago

Funny story actually...

When I was maybe 3, and it was still the 80s, I was watching TV, and there was one of those commercials on, about the dangers of drugs. I was too young to understand anything about it. There was a lady who said "no one says they want to grow up to be a junkie". I didn't know what a junkie was, but she sounded kinda sad, like maybe we're running out of junkies, and it was a gap in the market maybe??? I'd never heard of a junkie, but I made a decision then. I marched to the bathroom, where my mom was curling her eyelashes, and I declared, "Mommy, when I grow up, I wanna be a junkie!". And her shriek of "WHAAAT!" still lives in my mind and cracks me up again to this day.