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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> There's just nothing about the retail experience at B&N that's even worth the effort to drive there and park. The last book I bought at B&N wasn't so long ago. They pulled it off the shelf and had it waiting for
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Drug rehab - basically inpatient with counselors/etc.
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> All of these things cause each other. Not exactly - the "symptoms" you mention feed into a destructive feedback loop, but there are always causes behind the patient's presentation. The effigy of Ancel Keys should be ritu
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I refer you to my comment history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023802
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Most supposed "mental disorders" have metabolic problems as a component. "Stress" (various types) is important too. This aspect of "mental disorders" was starting to be explored 40 years ago, according to one o
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> I think helping people who've become addicted is good, but these aren't things that should be legal and accessible for people to start using. When addictive substances are illegal they're more accessible than when they&#
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> And the problem is the people that are dying of heroin aren't the Silicon Valley tech workers with good jobs and homes that make up the majority of hacker news. My girlfriend grew up in a "1%" household. She developed su
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While reading this, I thought of something I read on twitter [0] the other day: @AllenFrancesMD Feb 7 Diagnoses should almost always be written in pencil: 1)Patients are usually seen on their worst day- seem sicker than th
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Thanks for commenting - as always, the devil is in the details. Would any IV drug user risk getting a 'hot shot' if they had access to a supply of known potency?
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In days gone by, heroin addicts knew how much heroin they needed to 'stay well'. A major factor in the escalation of deaths in the modern era is the contamination of the street pharmacy's heroin supply with more potent synthe
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
BS is peddled by industries seeking to grow their business. Medical professionals are also susceptible to industry-sponsored BS-vendors: https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but... Oxycontin was sup
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> I promise you that treatment is rarely the "answer". Most addicts don't want to go to treatment. Most addicts don't want to go to treatment because treatment doesn't work - mostly it gets people to focus on the
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> Every year when autumn comes her condition gets worse and she ends up in hospital for few weeks [...] Light is anti-stress. Sounds like your mother would benefit from supplemental light (UV/red/etc) when the sun goes away for
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> People who want to fight against the idea that these modern miracles (drugs that treat depression) are effective treatments for this debilitating, but curable disease, The modern miracle drugs that effectively treat and cure debilitati
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> In the UK Nalmefene is approved for this kind of alcohol treatment also. It's less toxic to the liver than naltrexone so GPs can prescribe it (without specialist intervention and liver checks). Hadn't heard of nalmefene, than
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Sometimes a diagnosis is useful, sometimes it's a useless (harmful) simplification. People are always more complex than their diagnosis. Specialists have a stranglehold on medicine: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06&
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If science advances one funeral at a time, what can be done about institutions that insist on bing wrong? The American Heart Association has a lot to answer for. Sometimes doctors do good work, sometimes their training leaves much to be des
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Somewhat recently I visited a webpage that referenced Gabor Maté's work, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction [0] - my local library had a copy. Dr. Maté spent decades working with the most hopeless of the r
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> try getting someone to radically alter their lifestyle for the promise of potential benefit in 10-20 years. There is an incredible amount of confusion with regard to appropriate lifestyle interventions. Part of the problem is that your
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The ASU science library has some neat old books. But they're hours away, and I can't check books out without a membership ($100?). I was going to buy a copy of the book I recently previewed from Abebooks.com, but then I thought to
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The police officer who arrested me was almost apologetic: it was 6 of them against me, and he had to do something .
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I got arrested 26 months ago. I'd gone back to the hospital with a court order that said the hospital's behavior was not in compliance with the law, and that they had to let their patient (my friend) go. I made the mistake of goin
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Shouldn't they use this with antibiotics first, to better make sure that people take the full course of their prescription? > Abilify is an arguably unusual choice for the first sensor-embedded medicine. It is prescribed to people w
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> And if a drug addict doesn't want treatment? Switzerland gives their most hopeless heroin addicts free heroin, and a safe place to use it. [0] A friend's son was expelled from his US high school for dealing heroin - this was
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I think a good case can be made that many of these "mental disorders" are actually metabolic problems. There are many causes behind an individual's metabolic problem that leads to schizophrenia/dementia/psychosis&#x
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What if our approach to viruses is basically-wrong? I grew up before children were vaccinated against chicken pox. When I was about 5-6 years old, I had a case... Mom counted 12 pox, which was enough to assume that I'd be immune for th
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My brother has a foam mattress in his guest room. He found it on Craigslist (it was someone's unused guest bed), used it himself for several years, then replaced it with a larger spring mattress. I can't stand sleeping on the foam
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Sometimes doctors do good work, sometimes the medical-industrial complex makes work for itself. When insurance is paying the bills, no one has to care about effectiveness or costs. Elisabeth Rosenthal recently published An American Sicknes
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> (despite being a dumbass who cold-turkey'd my meds without my doctors knowledge) Robert Whitaker says that the only people he's met who recover are the ones who stop taking their pills. Anatomy of An Epidemic is written aro
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I learned here at HN that tobacco is compelling for many people because of the combination of MAOI chemicals and nicotine. Niacinamide is very similar to nicotine. I've read reports of niacinamide supplementation helping people quit sm

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