Neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart: People Are Dying in Opioid Crisis Because of Politicians’ Ignorance
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
Test that Dr. for drugs.
He talks exactly like a drug user or a drug pusher.
He suggests the most addictive drugs on the planet only addict 25% of regular users. That's bullshit.
He claims that drug addicts, the least productive, least reliable, most risk laden people on the planet, narcotic addicts, are "owed" by the tax payer free access to lab testing to verify the purity levels of their stash!
If he's not an addict or a drug pusher he's stark raving nuts.
We could just hand out free drugs cheaper.
Then he calls people who are opposed to any kind of government action that signals that drug use is an acceptable thing stupid and ignorant.
Please drug test ALL who get paid by tax money NOW!
DO SOMETHING USEFUL AND GET THE DRUG ADDICTS OUT OF AUTHORITY POSITIONS NOW!
He talks exactly like a drug user or a drug pusher.
He suggests the most addictive drugs on the planet only addict 25% of regular users. That's bullshit.
He claims that drug addicts, the least productive, least reliable, most risk laden people on the planet, narcotic addicts, are "owed" by the tax payer free access to lab testing to verify the purity levels of their stash!
If he's not an addict or a drug pusher he's stark raving nuts.
We could just hand out free drugs cheaper.
Then he calls people who are opposed to any kind of government action that signals that drug use is an acceptable thing stupid and ignorant.
Please drug test ALL who get paid by tax money NOW!
DO SOMETHING USEFUL AND GET THE DRUG ADDICTS OUT OF AUTHORITY POSITIONS NOW!
Graylight · 51-55, F
Not ignorance, but lack of caring. Their hands are tied as long as the large chunk of donations come from the very manufacturers of the drugs they're supposed to fight. Big Pharma created the opioids (legal ones), then manufacture conditions that "require" them, then support government financially in return for consideration.
Incidentally, alcohol claims more than 5 times the lives each year as opioids, but no one's screaming about that, either. We're way too enamored of our cocktail hours and tailgating parties to confront that drug.
Incidentally, alcohol claims more than 5 times the lives each year as opioids, but no one's screaming about that, either. We're way too enamored of our cocktail hours and tailgating parties to confront that drug.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
No. People who become drug addicts want to die. Even a kid knows doing drugs can get you killed. Who cares.
Give them all the drugs they want. I don't care if they died that's what they obviously want.
Give them all the drugs they want. I don't care if they died that's what they obviously want.
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Graylight · 51-55, F
@SteelHands Again, how enlightened. And how presumptuous to think you know my experiences.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@Graylight If you're an addict you're a liar.
If you're an addict you only care about yourself.
If you're an addict you'd steal medicine from a sick baby.
If you're an addict nobody should trust you.
If you're an addict you could be led into doing just about any crime, even of the most horrible kind by anyone that can control the drugs you're addicted to.
If you're an addict you've probably caused many people harm and loss already.
If you're an addict I know all I need to know about you. And I'll be honest with you. Anyone who knows how worthless, hopeless and dangerous you are, if you are an addict, hopes you'll die soon too. They just don't want to hurt ppls feelings.
And one other thing. I don't hate drug addicts. I just hate every single thing that I know they all do, just like I have heard them tell me they themselves do also.
So if you're a drug addict spare me your fake, drug injected temporary pride and remember to remind yourself all you have left when you come back down is the self pity you began with.
You can hate me all you want but that won't fix those cold sweats and shakes. You can feel all the rage you got its not gonna save you from that fire under your skin or that pounding sledge hammer in your gut. You can fly off into whatever crazy tirade you want now but it's not going to heal your liver when it gets tore in two, or make your brain start working again after the drugs kill most of it.
I'm telling you that leather bindings and a jar full of muscle relaxers and mountains of wet towels and crowds of medical help and family love couldn't stop the a dog returning to its vomit. And it was a conquerer among the most mighty of men.
You're an addict?
Type nothin.
Read it.
Now look in a mirror.
I not only don't need to know you I pray to God heaven I never even see another one of your kind.
That's not judgement.
I'm just not into filth and horror.
If you're an addict you only care about yourself.
If you're an addict you'd steal medicine from a sick baby.
If you're an addict nobody should trust you.
If you're an addict you could be led into doing just about any crime, even of the most horrible kind by anyone that can control the drugs you're addicted to.
If you're an addict you've probably caused many people harm and loss already.
If you're an addict I know all I need to know about you. And I'll be honest with you. Anyone who knows how worthless, hopeless and dangerous you are, if you are an addict, hopes you'll die soon too. They just don't want to hurt ppls feelings.
And one other thing. I don't hate drug addicts. I just hate every single thing that I know they all do, just like I have heard them tell me they themselves do also.
So if you're a drug addict spare me your fake, drug injected temporary pride and remember to remind yourself all you have left when you come back down is the self pity you began with.
You can hate me all you want but that won't fix those cold sweats and shakes. You can feel all the rage you got its not gonna save you from that fire under your skin or that pounding sledge hammer in your gut. You can fly off into whatever crazy tirade you want now but it's not going to heal your liver when it gets tore in two, or make your brain start working again after the drugs kill most of it.
I'm telling you that leather bindings and a jar full of muscle relaxers and mountains of wet towels and crowds of medical help and family love couldn't stop the a dog returning to its vomit. And it was a conquerer among the most mighty of men.
You're an addict?
Type nothin.
Read it.
Now look in a mirror.
I not only don't need to know you I pray to God heaven I never even see another one of your kind.
That's not judgement.
I'm just not into filth and horror.
Graylight · 51-55, F
If you're an addict, you're sick, just as if you had cancer or diabetes.
If you're an addict, your brain manufactures and loses neurotransmitters differently than other brains.
If you're an addict, you actually process and metabolize drugs differently than others.
If you're an addict, you can see everything you love and treasure lost to you and be helpless to stop it.
If you're an addict, you can literally die trying to stop the addiction.
And the other things you mention? All true, too. Addicts are self-interested, reckless, thoughtless, often criminal, certainly to to be trusted. But not because they choose this; because they've got a physical condition they can no longer control.
I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of addicts. Some are lost casues, some die, and some go on to become better people with greater dignity and character than you or I could hope to attain.
You sound as if you've been hurt and betrayed by addiction. Your point of view is understandable and natural. All I'm saying is there are other perspectives and realities, too.
If you're an addict, your brain manufactures and loses neurotransmitters differently than other brains.
If you're an addict, you actually process and metabolize drugs differently than others.
If you're an addict, you can see everything you love and treasure lost to you and be helpless to stop it.
If you're an addict, you can literally die trying to stop the addiction.
And the other things you mention? All true, too. Addicts are self-interested, reckless, thoughtless, often criminal, certainly to to be trusted. But not because they choose this; because they've got a physical condition they can no longer control.
I've seen hundreds, maybe thousands of addicts. Some are lost casues, some die, and some go on to become better people with greater dignity and character than you or I could hope to attain.
You sound as if you've been hurt and betrayed by addiction. Your point of view is understandable and natural. All I'm saying is there are other perspectives and realities, too.
Trump just went on National TV to tell people he wouldn't allocate money for the problem but Even Better, he would do some Public Health Commercials.