MindBoggles

I want to add that opiate hallucinations arent open-eyed hallucinations. With an opiate, such as heroin, you go into this dreamy land called a "nod". The nod is a stage right between being awake and being asleep. You "hallucinate" in this stage, kind of like a dream - it can range from anything from hearing sounds or seeing someone talking to you.

After pro-longed use, these nod-dreams go away and are hard to come by for long term users.

You wake up in the morning with various ways that you can collect money. You choose one and roll with it. You almost always get the hustled money. The jobs range from everything you mentioned to reselling drugs to other junkies, lying to get money from family, pawn shops, basically anything that will get you a few dollars for the day.

Also remember that relapse is a part of recovery - dont think that this is a reason to relapse though. Most addicts in recovery relapse. Just dont fall back into it. Realize you relapsed and get back on your feet. Correct yourself quickly from the relapse.

Maybe for the non drug addict there is, but for an addict in recovery, no drug is safe.

he is not saying you should scoop up your niece and chain her to a hospital bed.

This is incorrect. Many interventions end in the addict being kept in a hospital mental ward or rehab facility literally trapped in a room. If the family doesnt put in the effort to find the right people, the right facilities, the right way to conduct an intervention, it can go horribly wrong. I believe /u/TheInternet-Police experienced an intervention gone bad and is letting his experience and emotion about it out here. He does have a point.