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  • tyler@programming.devto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    2 months ago

    I’m not really sure what you’re arguing here… Heroin (from my googling) is like 15-20 bucks for a tenth of a gram. And also from googling it looks like it can cost users $150-$200 a day.

    I go to therapy. I’ve gone to a bunch of different therapists. I go twice a month and it’s $150 a session. You don’t need therapists to “be in network” for you to go to them. And $300 a month is way cheaper than $4500 a month, no matter what way you split it.

    Which like, isn’t to say that heroin is a good alternative. It’s just that when someone has a $20 in their pocket and they can either spend it on a single therapy session that may or may not be beneficial to them (or can even be retraumatizing) or they can spend it on a bag of heroin that will for sure get them high and make them feel better right now, it’s not hard to see why some people are going to choose the latter.

    In regards to this, I’m pretty sure that the second you think of taking heroin you’re screwed. It commonly results in addiction after only a single try. My point is that don’t ever think of heroin as the solution, because the cost of therapy is not the problem.