Quote (duffman316 @ 20 May 2019 09:28)

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Quote (Ghot @ May 19 2019 08:35pm)

I want to live in that kid's world. All ya need to do is eat a bunch of pain killers and suddenly you are an expert on addiction.
I wonder if the local college gave him an honorary Psychiatry degree.

IMO, the only thing that kid was an expert on was how to BE an addict. Props to him for quitting... IF he actually did, which I doubt.

I know quite a few folks who were addicts of one sort or another. IF they managed to beat it, they don't run around claiming they are experts.


Like I said above.... this sounds more to me like the parents wanting to cash in on this.

Quote (remco6 @ May 20 2019 03:00pm)

You truly are a despicable human being. He never claimed to be an expert on beating addiction, he claimed to have some insight into how to deal with emotional trauma. Beat addiction by not avoiding reality and turning to substances in the first place. And the irony of you rejecting someone else’s anecdotal experience when you’ve literally never made an argument outside of in my day in my experience that’s how it should be.

Quote (thesnipa @ May 20 2019 03:04pm)

Ghot, the armchair expert in every topic PARD has had in the last 4 years, want to call someone's credibility into question. Shocker.

Ghot's 1 area people even ask him questions is comp hardware, and in that subforum he's a running joke. He's a joke at what he does best. just think about that.

Quote (remco6 @ May 20 2019 05:00pm)

You truly are a despicable human being. He never claimed to be an expert on beating addiction, he claimed to have some insight into how to deal with emotional trauma. Beat addiction by not avoiding reality and turning to substances in the first place. And the irony of you rejecting someone else’s anecdotal experience when you’ve literally never made an argument outside of in my day in my experience that’s how it should be.

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It took him 12 years to find a way out of addiction, and after that he used his dramatic personal story to try and help others fight drug dependency. He became a prominent expert on addiction and drug policy, travelling the country to advise those going through trauma that it is better to face emotions than dull them behind painkillers, as he did.

Quote (Ghot @ May 20 2019 09:13pm)

First off, he didn't claim this...he is dead. His parents claimed it, like I said, and are most probably trying to cash in on this, somehow.

Notice how we don't even have a citation for the original quote. :/

Quote (Dominate2 @ May 20 2019 05:25pm)

maybe they just want to help others through the things that ruined their sons life, like most people with normal levels of empathy would

it likely wasn't even really his fault he became addicted in the first place, I could easily see a scenario where he wasn't warned properly or at all about the addictiveness of opioids, not to mention he was a kid, who just watched a bunch of his friends get murdered

not sure why you feel the need to take pot shots at him

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Quote (Ghot @ May 20 2019 10:04pm)

Which part of... I'm taking potshots at the parents, isn't getting through?
Like I said earlier... where were they when he was popping painkillers like M&Ms. Maybe they should have helped their SON first.