| Disclaimer: Don't start using opioids. You could become addicted and end up using street drugs and overdose and die. But the physiological reality is most opioids are harmless if dosed correctly. They do tend to make people happier although often less productive or driven. We should focus on harm reduction. If registered addicts can get a regular dose of a pure opioid in a safe setting they can often be productive members of society albeit maybe less so than if they had never became addicts. People function for decades on methadone or buperenorphine therapies with few if any ill effects besides constipation. I would like to see a society where people with refractory depression were given the option to try opioids. Often depressiom is caused by obsessive ruminations on topics of anxiety or social isolation. By supressing the subjective feeling of psychic pain opioids directly attack these problems at their root. SSRIs may be more indirect. I bet in many cases it would help. Opioid tolerance is a real thing but we should be looking for ways to attenuate the tolerance formation process. It is bizarre to me how current progressive circles push cannabis but demonise opioids. In my opinion as a non-addict but somebody who has had limited experience with various opioids years ago I think they are the closest thing to a psychological wonder drug. I wonder if they are so demonised because they actually work? It is true overdose can be lethal but this is a dosing issue with unpure stree products not an inevitability. Driving too fast can be lethal too. |