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The definition of harm is context-dependent. I think you mean that opiates and other drugs, addictive or not, when “taken at a safe dose in a health young adult
by robwwilliams 3y ago
The definition of harm is context-dependent. I think you mean that opiates and other drugs, addictive or not, when “taken at a safe dose in a health young adult” will not significantly degrade basic body function.”
But opiates taken over a relatively short time can and often do greatly impair CNS neurotransmitter systems and downstream behaviors—-in some cases causing almost irremediable dysfunction. This happens to a sizable subpopulation of humans; more than 10% of physician-prescribed oxycontin users. Genetics and social context modulate vulnerability.
This is definitely not “little harm”.
- worik 3y ago> opiates taken over a relatively short time can and often do greatly impair CNS neurotransmitter systems That is untrue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted is a counter example "Throughout his professional life, he was addicted to cocaine and later also to morphine...."
- robwwilliams 3y agoYou link for support for your opinion thar all drugs are benign to a Wiki entry if a scientist who died in 1922—-before there was a field of neuroscience? My rejoinder could be 10,000 peer-reviewed papers in this millennium.
- worik 3y ago> You link for support for your opinion thar all drugs are benign to a Wiki entry if a scientist who died in 1922 Who pioneered keyhole surgery > rejoinder could be 10,000 peer-reviewed papers in this millennium. Nonsense.