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Originally Posted by RealJames
That's so nice for it to be a big deal that you saw a syringe!
I used to see them on a weekly basis, sometimes more often!
And that wasn't nearly as bad as the foamy mouthed od'd addicts in random alleys or violent robberies and frequent break ins for drug money.
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Pretty much this.
Spotting a syringe is a lot different from knowing that it is an illegal drug (there is a tiny tiny chance that it was a legal item - insulin, for example) and spotting addicts hunting for specks on the pavement that might be dropped drugs...
I honestly cannot think of anyone I knew in the US (other than my grandparents) who did not use drugs. My mom is an addict, my sister "experiments", my brother had suicide and addiction issues after having a school nurse suggest ADHD medication for him, I lost a friend to an OD, and "lost" several other friends to heavy addictions. My cousin is a zombie, now on multiple anti-depressants and anti-psychotics to "fix" what other anti-depressants screwed up. A friend was given heavy duty stuff after becoming depressed when a relative died, and is now a long term addict and can`t function without it.
And... Everyone else seems to dabble in pot, crack, meth, and ecstasy.
For the longest time I was the ONLY person around in school, work, and pretty much everywhere else that DIDN`T use something... I was seriously getting requests for my urine at every turn.
It`s a completely different world in that regard in Japan.