________ ________ ________
2018-10-11 / \/ \/ / \
/ __/ /_ _/
So I had to "renew my prescription", as / _/ / /
it were, I left it for probably a month \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
because shit's expensive but I like it and / \/ \/ / \
don't feel like I need to give it up. IDK, / _/ /_ _/
addicts always have excuses I guess but I /- / _/ /
come and go from it pretty easily so \________/\________/\___/____/
whatever, it is what it is.
I went through a vendor I trust and as a thank-you they threw in a couple
free samples of their other products.
The whole idea was so hilarious to me, I've joked before about that whole
space just being AliExpress with a different product range but dang it's so
true. There's no shady street-corner deals, it's as normal as any other online
store. And even better than most of them really, when you think about it.
Because all the vendors trade on reputation it's in their best interest to do
right by their customer and from a customer perspective, the nature of what
your purchasing makes it essential to learn at least a little online
discipline.
The two samples were a generic Xanax, which I'm told is pretty common as a
throw-in bonus and the other was Pregabalin, generic Lyrica. I recognised the
name, though I couldn't remember from where, and a quick cursory poke around
the internet turned up lots of fun recreational effects. A couple days passed
and it finally clicked where I remember the name Lyrica from; when I was in
the States last there were frequent ads for it on the TV as an alternative to
opioid pain treatment and, more interestingly, as a treatment to significantly
reduce opiate withdrawal symptoms in recovering addicts.
It's quite interesting, I can't say whether it was intentional or not but I
have seen some other vendors in that space with a pretty strong "we can help
you kick opioids" message, particularly heroin obviously. Either way it made
me realize something; up until the recent changes, I've been buying stuff from
legitimate pharmacies and from qualified pharmacists for easily over a decade,
and not one single time did any of them mention addiction or ask me if I
needed any help or wanted to talk to someone. Not even a passive, low energy
flyer haha.
It's interesting. The people who should have cared didn't. They were told
to care by legislation and still didn't so in the end they were removed from
the equation completely and the responsibility handballed to doctors. The
people who you wouldn't expect to care, the criminals, do. At least at face
value.
