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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> You may have a person who is more sensitive in some ways, but you don't get addiction without some form of developmental or shock trauma I wish the justice system would consider this factor when deciding whether to send people for
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I think whole field of medicine is confused. On the one hand, we have some very good pharmaceuticals. They work very well for their purpose. For example, Naloxone [1] is very good for reviving people who overdose on opiates Some of the mod
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> You're ignoring the fact that the current situation has been created by prescription pill misuse (in proscribing and taking) and the death toll has exceed that of automobiles largely because of Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids
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> Describing criminal drug peddlers as "tending to the health" of people is a very odd way of putting it. The intention is to point out the absurdity of our situation, where much-desired plant-based substances can only be obtai
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> But Switzerland still has a street opiate drug market problem! The planet's various governments created the street drug marketplace by making desired substances illegal. The United States government created the country's drug
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> but no claims anywhere that prescribing heroin has eliminated all opiate fatalities. Can you cite a more rigorous source? I have edited the comment above to add a word. The friend who taught me about her opiate addiction knew how to ma
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> By "organized crime," I assume you mean something other what's traditionally thought of as organized crime, e.g. the Mafia, but I can't tell what. The Mafia and other manifestations of "traditional" organi
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> It'd be far more cost-effective to reduce the need for acute care by providing access to addiction treatment before things get to this point. Easier said than done I suppose. Johann Hari has pointed out that it's very effecti
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100 years ago, politicians were tricked into trusting organized crime to tend to the health of people who are drawn to opiates. Those politicians are dead & gone, but we're still stuck with their mistake. My mother broke her wrist
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(this article can be read by searching for the title on http://twitter.com/ , then opening the link in a private window) > Two doses of an injectable form of naloxone, Evzio, cost $4,500, up from $690 in 2014. The price o
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The cost of naloxone [1] is an insignificant part of the cost of reviving an addict. The rest of the costs mentioned in this article are pure profiteering. [1] http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma&#x2F
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There are some good points in this article, but it glosses over the ineffectiveness of early 20th century medicine. Insurance pays for medical treatments that are helpful, and pays for medical treatments that make the patients' conditi
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Thanks for your insights. I have family in the medical field, so I've heard a lot of complaints about the system. It seems like most people don't appreciate how much "complication" in the medical industry derives from th
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There was a reform, maybe sometime around 1985, that replaced "usual, customary and reasonable" with 'what should this procedure actually cost'. Your wikipedia links to this page: Resource-based relative value scale - h
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Naltrexone - the active ingredient in this $1000 reformulation of a generic drug - can also be injected as pellets under the skin for the same time-release effect. It's been a while since I ran across this option. Here's a random
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> And in terms of the food quality, there is no evidence that it makes an iota of meaningful difference. Some oranges are sweet, and make delicious orange juice. Some oranges are sour, and make sour orange juice. When I'm shopping f
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She was on suicide pills (so-called antidepressants) herself, but they didn't mention this until the last paragraph: > Earlier in the trial, a psychiatrist testified that Carter was delusional after becoming "involuntarily into
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The active drug in vivitrol, naltrexone, can also be injected under the skin as pellets for a similar time-release effect. Vivitrol is just a company making a new administration method (such as the ephedrine/epipen swindle) to cash in
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This is a good write-up about Semmelweis' findings - it has some points which I was not previously aware of. "The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence
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> Because many untreated mental illnesses (such as schizophrenia) are degenerative, early treatment is especially helpful. Mental illnesses are commonly considered "degenerative" because the professionals don't address the
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Everything you say here is basically what I've observed. > Unfortunately, justice is glacial, and the law doesn't protect you in the short term. I got a court order freeing my girlfriend from the first hospital in a day and a h
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
My girlfriend has had three stays at two different UHS hospitals in Phoenix (UHS is the subject of this ars technica article). They tried to keep her indefinitely the first time. The second two times were unnecessary month-long "stabil
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Heard that he takes finasteride for the hair. This drug screws with the steroid system; Progesterone is rather important for brain health. Some of el presidente's linguistic choices are technique. It's said that Bandler & Grin
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basically what tptacek said... Benzos' are sometimes useful for acute anxiety, but this is not how they're commonly used. Benzos: A Dance With the Devil - https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/07/benzos-a-dan
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maybe they eventually approved it, but they passed on it in 1984: – Three years before Prozac received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in late 1987, the German BGA, that country’s FDA equivalent, had such serious
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Prozac was always defective too. The German FDA refused to approve it, way back when. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14281643 The drug industry has a habit of coming out with a new "class" of drugs as soon a
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> 2 weeks of lexapro was a night and day difference. My girlfriend thought that lexapro had helped her years before she met me... She escaped from the psychiatrists who only cared about making her feel worse with their "anti-psychot
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Investigative journalist Robert Whitaker wrote a book about how the medications commonly used in the psychiatric 'standard of care' actually seem to make the patients worse. Some psychiatrists wrote a response that can be summariz
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Measles is one of the diseases that you only get once, then you're immune for the rest of your life. Some kids are killed by measles, which is why the vaccine is popular - it is difficult to predict which kids will have a difficult cas
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> What about fining people who believe that certain antidepressants are dangerous? Etc. There is no controversy about SSRIs' ability to provoke suicide ideation in people who take these drugs. http://ahrp.org/prozac-

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