Odense Metallurgy, Electronics, Chemistry & Computing
Odense Metallurgy, Electronics, Chemistry & Computing


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Disclaimer

Someone told me that this webpage may on the surface look like it condones drugs.


I assure you: It. Does. Not.


I have a lot of experience with addicts and addiction. Both personally and indirectly, and addiction is no laughing matter. It may start out as "simple" pain- or palliative treatment but it can quickly escalate into fullblown addiction and it is never a pretty sight. It's tough as nails, not only on the addict him-/herself but also on family and friends. The road to addiction can be both sneaky, meandering, treacherous and insipid and it's an inexorable and unforgiving trap once it takes you into its clammy embrace. Sadly, the road out of it is one few have the psyche to travel once they're trapped. Then again people usually have reasons for what they do.


Granted, when you're young you may "just" be experimenting, but if you find, in your late teens, that you're prone to a bipolar or schizophrenic disorder you may end up with a so called "dual diagnosis" and the road out becomes double hard. Other people have undefinable "defects", "neuroses", "character failures" - some have perhaps lived through trauma in their childhood - be it abuse, neglect or even worse. Some people use drugs to turn off specific things in their minds. Unfortunately drugs are like a scattergun. They don't turn off exactly what you want turned off, but does a lot of random damage.


Not all addicts steal or lack empathy (although, sadly, I realize a lot do). I also do not agree with the premise that alcoholism or drug addiction is a "disease" in itself. There is almost always a reason behind the madness.


The link between mental illness and addiction is well known and well documented. Denmark, where I am from - is presumably one of the better countries to be ill in - but almost no country on Earth puts adequate funds towards mental healthcare.


In Denmark the law states that you're entitled to be referred to a psychiatrist by your personal physician, but a psychiatrist will almost always try to medicate the problem away where the help really needed is a psychologist. Still, even if they could afford one, many addicts don't want to talk about their problems.


So, in the end, those of us who care, are forced to rely on damage control, and that is basically what this site is about.


It may contain humor because I believe information wants to be free and it's a grim subject. So, I share a lot, some would say too much, but apparently noone finds it strange that a guide for making ANFO is easily accessible on Wikipedia, that you can download schematics for a gun or rifle to print with your 3D-printer or deduce how to build a hydrogen bomb in your garage. I'm not sharing anything not already on the web.


So, make no mistake. This site is for the purpose of saving lives; not taking them!!


Many of these may be behind institutional paywalls. If you really want to read them you'll find a way.

Nitazene-analogues Make Fentanyl Look Like Drugs for Children

Mental Illness and Substance Abuse

What Heroin Does to Your Brain

What Cocaine Does to Your Brain

What Antipsychotics Do to Your Brain

What Dissociative Psychedelics Do to Your Brain (and your bladder)

What Benzodiazepines Do to Your Brain

What MDMA Does to Your Brain