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Alcohol (EtOH) is absolutely the worst drug there is. It's almost identical in its effects to EtOEt. Really nasty shit. It's against the law to grow a plant which has been used for centuries as a folk medicine for pain (P. Somniferum) but a drug which kills over 40,000 people a year in the United Snakes alone is legal... nay, celebrated!
I enjoy a few cocktails on occasion, do not get me wrong.... but it is the hypocrisy of our drug laws.
I am a person that is for people to use whatever drugs they like. I am also for discovering new ways to help people who suffer from addiction, and ways to keep drug use away from young people as well.
We have people here on prescription medication that is every bit as addictive as crack... like Xanax for example, or synthetic narcotics like hydrocodone and Oxycontin. And I am even for legalizing these like they have in Mexico... over the counter. It doesn't do any good to try to police people out of self destruction...
That is just my opinion
Well, I take Oxycontin, as well as Oxycodone IR. Yes, there is no doubt that I am physically dependent. And that, while occasionally inconvenient, has not led me down the path of self-destruction. After almost 12 years, I am at a fairly low, stable dose. The main side effect now is occasional somnolence. Euphoria is rare. Constipation is rare.
I object to having to go to a gatekeeper every month for pain relief. I know exactly how much I need to go from a 7 or 8 down to a 2 or 3 (I know that trying to completely eliminate pain CAN be done, but at the cost of being awake). Having to go to a doctor is superfluous; I rarely see a doctor anyway. I won't say it's a pill mill, because it isn't. What it IS, is a money mill. I mean, they are seeing perhaps one patient every 10 minutes. (my visits normally take no more than about 5 minutes face time, and the prescriptions are pre-printed). There are normally 3 PAs and one doctor on any given day. The doctor doesn't always see people at the rate the PAs do, so I'll estimate that there are 3.5 people per 7 hour day.
Lowballing each visit at $100 per, that's $100 x 6 x 3.5 x 7 = $14,700 per day. And I'm being conservative. I'm not counting the epidurals and other "procedures".
Times 4 locations.
All this current system does is transfer money from people who are suffering, to people who have learned how to game the system.
Moving along, is addiction a disease? If it is, how can anyone be culpable for being addicted? Isn't that the basic question?
And, even if addiction is NOT a disease, and the use if drugs is entirely voluntary, with absolutely no physiological changes to, say, the nucleus accumbens or the prefrontal cortex, and the mediation of L-type Ca++ channels and downregulation of dopamine receptors is a complete myth, how can a 15 year-old (at the time of the offense to rightard mythology ontology) be held responsible? She's not mature enough to sign a contract to buy a set of encyclopedias, right? Then how can she be mature enough to understand that the ingestion of *** can cause ###?
I mean, theoretically, she's the victim of Statutory Rape, yes? How can she be a victim of rape, and be responsible for the result of that rape?
Rightard "logic" escapes me.
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