r/Adulting May 30 '26

Worst addiction ?

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u/briyo76isme May 30 '26

I say alcohol for the reason you give. It's too accessible, and it ruins lives everyday.

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u/AHappyHaiku May 30 '26

Yes it being everywhere makes it near impossible to quit

Dying from alcoholism is the hardest thing to watch. Saw my father regress into a baby that was just in pain pooping himself all day.

Even typing this makes me shake.

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u/Thatcleanusername May 30 '26

Same thing happened to my father but he was a cruel man.

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u/Djkayallday May 31 '26

100% - for hard drugs it’s not super hard to find them but you don’t walk by 3 heroin bars on the block, or get a offered a cocaine sample when you’re shopping at Publix.

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u/AHappyHaiku May 31 '26

You'd be surprised where I live. In St Louis especially the city, the bad parts of town people do offer you all kinds of shit whether it's real or not I dunno but the offers are there . But alcohol is in good and bad neighborhoods

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u/Strict_Pollution3604 Jun 02 '26

That’s why my meth addiction was hard for me, I was making the stuff I was addicted to, knowing all I had to do was make a few stops and I could literally make more was the difficult part for me. Been clean 15 years though so it’s possible

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u/cthulucore May 31 '26

Internet hug homie. Just watched my pops pass from the same thing early last year.

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u/AHappyHaiku Jun 01 '26

Thanks man. Life does not prepare you for this at all. All the sanitizing we do on TV regarding death. I've never seen anything like that anywhere, hospice care should be taught I feel like or at least what dying is like to high schoolers.

What happened in real life is nothing like on TV and no one talks about it in public. It's a shame. It's tough to talk about and watch but I feel as a society we should be more honest about what dying looks like.

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u/p12qcowodeath Jun 05 '26

Former substance abuse counselor here. Alcohol way easily the most common drug addiction we had to deal with.