opiates
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Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.
The withdrawal symptoms from opiates are not severe and never dangerous, though of course they do exist. Insofar as they are genuinely feared, there has been a campaign of exaggeration about them for nearly 200 years.
And the fact is that millions of opiates addicts having given up their habit without medical assistance.
It's not really over. There's a little part of my brain that is: 'Russell, where are the opiates?' - 'I'm afraid we can't have any more opiates..' 'Why?' - 'You nearly killed me, didn't you?