Do some junkies just not die?

Question

My real dad I haven't met is still in his 50's banging dope somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. My uncle Terry is 48, and still banging dope at my grandma's house. But yet most of them I've known are dead. Why can't these two die? lol

Answer 1

It depends on the dope.  If your talking about heroin, than it's because heroin only kills you if you take to much and OD. Intresting fact about heroin, is that it has no permanent effect on the body or mind.  You can use everyday for 20 yrs, and as soon as your clean, there is no lasting side effects.

Answer 2

Mortality rate is still 100% eventually

Answer 3

Awwww.... what a heartwarming question.

Answer 4

Marijuana isn't nearly as lethal as most other kinds of drugs. When you say they are 50-ish, it makes me think of hippies and 70's kids smokin weed and the way it was viewed back then. It wasn't seen as just getting high, but for hippies it was a spiritual drug and for 70's kids it became more of a social drug, and it was tried at least once by almost 70-90% of the total underage population. It just wasn't seen as the demon it is today, and still isn't by many people who grew up in the 60's and 70's. My own mother even told me that if it ever became legal that she would be first in line to buy it, lol!

Also, weed wasn't nearly as potent then as it is now, so if the weed they're smokin now is grown the same way as it was back in their day, they should be able to smoke it for another 50 years or so.  

Answer 5

do you  want your dad and uncle to die? are you mad at them or something?