RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman

Abe Vigoad is nobody.
And he always will be.

 

Anyone on this board who calls TBF a troll
has no fucking sense of recent fucking history.

 

Like it or not, this is a substantial loss and a damn tragedy. No one should die that young, especially when it could have been prevented.
But the lack of respect on this board for addiction is embarrassing, especially considering we're supposed to be "professionals" here.
Addiction is real. PSH battled drug addiction. He lost that battle.
This isn't some Paul Walker shit where he was acting like an idiot and recklessly threw his life away. This was a drug addict failing to kick a habit after he apparently relapsed to heroin following an addiction to painkillers. This could happen to any person on this board and if you don't believe it, I only hope you're never proven wrong.

 

Yep. Head peaking above the fold. And the article itself above yet another one about how the middle class in America is shrinking.

You know, I think they sometimes do that on purpose and wait for the shrieking to start.

 

I wonder what would have happened if he was part of a Super Bowl commercial?

Do they pull the ad?

 

I took this photo a year or two ago. Was hanging with some folks and a few trainspotters were shooting up. I asked one of the chicks to let me photograph her so long as I didn't show her face. This picture pretty much keeps me from doing H. It's a process of the grotesque. Gotta find a belt or rope or something to tourniquet your arm, at which point you start searching for spots between your fingers. Then you've gotta find a juicy vein, which takes a few minutes because you've battered most of the healthy veins in your arms. Then you've gotta inject the needle into the vein, and slowly draw a little blood into the syringe full of heroin water -- it's optimal when it's a bloody mixture -- before injecting it all back into vein.

I couldn't do it. No way.

Now, I've snorted H twice. Wanted to see what it did. Wasn't my thing. Will never be my thing. I'll always know what my thing is. But having tried it and experiencing how CHILLLLLLLLL it makes you feel, I understand why heroin clamps down on your soul, and I understand why most people want to shoot it instead of snort it -- instant escape. I've been around shooters. I watched them in the seconds and minutes after they injected the bloody dope into their veins. It's their God.

I read that police found 5 packets of empty H near PSH. Boy, if he used all 5 for one shot, it's no wonder his heart went kablooey.

 

This is a valuable post.

 

Perhaps you have mentioned it before but may I ask what your thing is Songbird? And good luck fighting the fight. I have someone I love very much that has been able to stay sober for 28 years but I lost a very good friend to cocaine, he was clean for months but when he went back his system could not take the old levels and he od'd. He was a great guy, would have done anything for his friends and family. He died 12 years ago and I still miss him.

 

Cocaine. There's a reason they say it's a helluva drug.

 

Capote may be one of the best performances of my lifetime.

 

Drug abusers have much in common with the society ostracizing them.
And even if they've picked a road to hell, they have much to teach.
The ignorance on this thread is thick.