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What if? Why, it would be akin to a social revolution. There would be literally millions of people who would not only have to deal with the original symptoms,
by fit2rule 11y ago
What if? Why, it would be akin to a social revolution. There would be literally millions of people who would not only have to deal with the original symptoms, but also the side-effects of withdrawal from a pharmaceutical addiction.
It can't happen, at least not overnight. It is going to take at least 2 or 3 generations before the dependency on industrialized-pharmaceuticals can be removed as an aspect of our western societies. Even if we have a solution to the dependency that pharmaceutical customers have, it is no small thing to come off the prescription.
So how far have we come as a species that we are having these 'generational approach' questions posed to us? Last centurys' Ritalin addict is this years flapper girl. All we do as cultures is propel the change of fashion forward. I feel nothing but pity for those who have a chemical dependence where the next patient bears no such duress, should they push pixels instead of pills. I would love to see it all change, such that none of us are dependent on industrialized pharmaceutical production - the penultimate of capital masters, but the closest analog to a solution in this regard, that I see, is the legalization of weed.
Legalize it, and a lot of these industrial problems have the potential to disappear...
- swombat 11y ago> western societies Very US-centric. We don't prescribe amphetamines like candy in Europe.
- fit2rule 11y agoTrue, and for that I am very, very grateful since I live in middle-Europe currently..
- unimpressive 11y agoWeed is not a treatment for ADHD, therapeutic doses of amphetamines generally don't cause dependency issues in the way you're thinking of. Pharmaceuticals aren't the devil and god your writing style is off the charts pretentious.
- fit2rule 11y ago>Weed is not a treatment for ADHD Not in your culture maybe, but beyond your borders it more than suffices. >writing style is off the charts pretentious. ++good. Meds, rectify.
- unimpressive 11y ago>++good. Meds, rectify. You reminded me to take them, so wish granted. ;)
- fit2rule 11y agoStill here? Still paying attention? There is no better currency today than attention, so thanks for spending a little of it on this message.
- gknoy 11y agoPerhaps my pretentiousness-recognition skills are poor, but I'm not sure I can regognize any ways in which the GP's post or writing style is pretentious. Can you elaborate on what makes one think the writing is pretentious? I'd like to avoid it. ... and if you think I'm being pretentious when writing this, sorry. As I mentioned, I don't even know how I'd recognize it.
- unimpressive 11y agoYou're not being pretentious. :P To answer your question, it's a combination of being long winded, using unnecessary non-standard phrasing like "industrialized-pharmaceuticals", thinking they know better than medical science/that there's a conspiracy to drug everybody so that they can't notice the conspiracy, and it all just adds up to a crackpot. In general, pretentious is when you try to make your content 'deeper' than its actual information value.
- fit2rule 11y ago>>"unnecessary non-standard phrasing" You mean in lieu of those presented in the DSM? Oh, I get it: you're a member of the pharma-cult.