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Smart to frame it as synthetic alcohol instead of as a drug because the US has decided that substances that make you feel good are tools of the devil. The one
by Spivak 3y ago
Smart to frame it as synthetic alcohol instead of as a drug because the US has decided that substances that make you feel good are tools of the devil.
The one that really gets me
is pain killers. I had to recover from surgery in the hospital for a few days where I couldn't do anything but lay there and focus on the pain. The only thing they we're allowed to give me was Tramadol which I can only describe as "it doesn't make any of the pain go away, it increases your ability to put up with it." The doctors know it's shit, the nurses know it's shit, they were apologizing constantly about it. We had all the tools available to make me not suffer at all during the experience but think that "getting high" is so terribly evil it's worth suffering for.
- Nursie 3y agoSame in the UK where this lot are based. It’s likely to be banned as soon as the active ingredient is revealed IMHO.
- thumbuddy 3y agoThe war on drugs has done incredible damage to chronically ill, and patients suffering severely. The amount of relief patients could get from debilitating pain was far better in the 1800s than it is today. People often end up rehospitalized or denied care entirely because their pain or anxiety goes unmanaged or because they "might maybe be drug seekers". Our current laws have fast tracked ordinary people to heroin or otherwise dealers. Difficult to imagine that wasn't part of the point of them...
- pharmakom 3y agoSubstances that make you feel good are for the elite youth when attending Harvard, Yale, Oxford, … not for the regular joe.
- foota 3y agoMy impression is that this (the difficulty of getting painkillers) was mostly driven by the opioid epidemic, is that wrong?