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You sir/madam/whatever your pronoun, need to mind thine own beeswax. You are not the sufferer of the malady in question. You have not mastered the art of walki

You sir/madam/whatever your pronoun, need to mind thine own beeswax. You are not the sufferer of the malady in question. You have not mastered the art of walking around in someone else's bag o'flesh for 30+ on years, and you have zero place to be lecturing others or opining without having lived with someone whose ADHD isn't responsive to Straterra. Of having to put up with the crippling disorganization; with having to endure the frustration of both the sufferer themselves, and that of those around them. When it gets to the point I have to drop 10+ years of medical records onto a practitioners desk, and STILL get handwringing and whining about "you need a rediagnosis" which requires ceasing treatment and unloading, and results in massive disruption of my, and my loved one's lives, and my ability to work and hold down a job, and my ability to pick up the pieces once everyone ends up going "Welp, yup, that one's a hell of a case of ADHD. Just like they said the first five times they were diagnosed”; which by the way, is fundamentally inflicting diagnostic harm on me; your regulatory regime has gotten out of hand. You think I like this? You think Schedule II is fun to be on the receiving end of? You think I haven't accounted for all the lost time, opportunity, and spend on the drug? You think I like having to fight with insurers for continuity of mental existence? I wouldn't wish it on anyone. And you have the gall to sit here and leave this stain of a bird dropping of a post, pitching >They’re very sticky for the fun stuff no matter the friction put in place. ...as some sort of indicator that "Oh it's because they're a druggie." No, it's because if I don't, the world will be subject to the deleterious consequences of an adult human, tuned to maintain operation with pharmacological assistance, suddenly operating in the abscence thereof in a highly degraded state. Good Lord. Find some bloody perspective. There's about three types of people I can't stand, period; and sanctimonius people that think they can apply one size fits all treatments to others are one of them.

Pigalowda 4y ago
The negative externalities of our pharmaceutical industry and its rampant over prescription of amphetamine and opioids aren’t worth it in my opinion. I would gladly get rid of all of it. The homeless users I see walking from Pioneer Square to Harborview Hospital didn’t start off injecting heroin/fentanyl and smoking meth. They almost certainly all started with pills, whether prescribed or illegally obtained. Your argument that it helps you just doesn’t move the needle for me. I see dead 20 year olds nearly every day from fentanyl or hypertensive brain hemorrhages from meth users. That’s just in Seattle - I’m sure it’s similar in every major US city. There’s no So while you describe this benefit to you, I think of it analogously as gun ownership. There are people who use guns appropriately for self defense, hunting, etc - but thousands of people die from them every year due to inappropriate and illegal use. And yet there’s no constitutional protection for amphetamine and opioids - but here the US is today, in a drug crisis of its own making. That’s my perspective. I see the end of one extreme every single day. This is a population level problem and you want me to contextualize it to a single individual. I guess my response to that is that I have contextualized it and reject it. I might be some sanctimonious wind bag to you (who you can’t stand) but you don’t have to see the dead all the time. And this trail of mayhem begins at our irresponsible pharmaceutical industry. The high functioning cheerleading users have 0 perspective and want me to lose sight of the forest. No thank you, I’ll stick to the one size fits all treatments. No opioids or amphetamines.

Pigalowda 4y ago

The negative externalities of our pharmaceutical industry and its rampant over prescription of amphetamine and opioids aren’t worth it in my opinion. I would gladly get rid of all of it. The homeless users I see walking from Pioneer Square to Harborview Hospital didn’t start off injecting heroin/fentanyl and smoking meth. They almost certainly all started with pills, whether prescribed or illegally obtained. Your argument that it helps you just doesn’t move the needle for me. I see dead 20 year olds nearly every day from fentanyl or hypertensive brain hemorrhages from meth users. That’s just in Seattle - I’m sure it’s similar in every major US city. There’s no So while you describe this benefit to you, I think of it analogously as gun ownership. There are people who use guns appropriately for self defense, hunting, etc - but thousands of people die from them every year due to inappropriate and illegal use. And yet there’s no constitutional protection for amphetamine and opioids - but here the US is today, in a drug crisis of its own making. That’s my perspective. I see the end of one extreme every single day. This is a population level problem and you want me to contextualize it to a single individual. I guess my response to that is that I have contextualized it and reject it. I might be some sanctimonious wind bag to you (who you can’t stand) but you don’t have to see the dead all the time. And this trail of mayhem begins at our irresponsible pharmaceutical industry. The high functioning cheerleading users have 0 perspective and want me to lose sight of the forest. No thank you, I’ll stick to the one size fits all treatments. No opioids or amphetamines.