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Kinda undermines the arguments about fentanyl from Canada (as if those were believable to begin with).
by derbOac 2y ago
Kinda undermines the arguments about fentanyl from Canada (as if those were believable to begin with).
- rqtwteye 2y agoIt was never believable.
- almosthere 2y ago[flagged]
- meroes 2y agoDoesn’t the show My 600 lb Life show many serious food addictions being broken by expert medical care, which is not free?
- almosthere 2y agoThose people will break an addiction for fame. When the show is over, they'll be back to eating.
- meroes 2y agoSo you believe these people can break their addiction, and that medical science has no way to leverage that chink in the armor?
- almosthere 2y agoThe carrot, which is massive fame, is not present when it's just a psychologist.
- nh23423fefe 2y agoDoesn't the show demonstrate lots of people who don't lose weight and lie about their intake?
- lugvruzzle 2y agoWhat do you mean by 'addictions are not breakable with money'? Are you saying that medical intervention and healthcare are not effective for people suffering addiction?
- nh23423fefe 2y agoWhy do people relapse so often if medical intervention works? A doctor can set 1000 broken legs. Can they cure 1000 addicts?
- lugvruzzle 2y agowell the goal of treating addiction is generally not to 'cure' it but to 'manage' it. If you can come up with a way of systematically helping populations of people manage their addictions without using money, I am all ears.
- rayiner 2y agoDo you know it works? I’d be curious to know your prior—do you think medical interventions for behavioral problems typically work? We know, for example, that medical interventions to address obesity typically don’t work (without surgery). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8427732/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8427732/
- xnx 2y ago> We know, for example, that medical interventions to address obesity typically don’t work (without surgery). This seems like a wild example to use given the runway success of GLP-1 drugs
- rayiner 2y agoSorry, I’m old and sometimes forget GLP-1 drugs exist now. But that’s kind of my point—those drugs seem like magic because medical interventions for obesity control were so extremely ineffective until just a couple of years ago. We don’t have anything akin to GLP-1 drugs for opiate addiction, or alcohol addiction, etc.
- xracy 2y ago"very wealthy NGO owners." Can you name a very wealth NGO owner that's not working with this administration. Or describe what you see as a problematic NGO? It's wild to me that people think NGO owners might be a problem when the richest man in the world is working with this administration to slash this budget arbitrarily. But I guess "deflect, deny, depose".
- lazyant 2y agoAnd the fentanyl "from Canada" story is because there was a seizure up north in the US and was attributed to come from Canada (but may as well be going the other way) and amount was like 0.1% of total apprehensions. Most of the illegal guns in Canada come from the US though.
- orionsbelt 2y agoWhy? I can understand the argument that this administration is wrong and will make things worse, but I don't think they are inconsistent arguments. The right seems to be of the view that a policy closer to Singapore is smarter than that of, say, San Francisco. In other words, increase penalties/enforcement of drug importation and treat drug dealers harshly, instead of spending lots of money on services for drug users, which arguably just leads to enabling them to continue to lead the life of a drug addict. From my perspective, there's pros and cons to both approaches, but it's not unreasonable to look at a place like San Francisco and come away with the view that some of this funding is making things worse, not better, even for the addicts themselves.