harmacologist
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So dealers can increase prices. boost that margin boy
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I think you may have misread my post. The 'bucket' I was referring to was stigma itself.
That's kinda how prevention works, though? It's unrealistic to screen everyone in the world (when? As children? When do these personality traits become measurable?) in the hope of identifying individuals who may develop substance abuse problems. I'm also quite interested to see that you're really adverse to acknowledging the overlap between mental illness and substance abuse, yet have no problem testing for people who have personality traits and viewing them as potential substance abusers. No matter what metric we use to evaluate risk, there are going to be people captured who do not and would not use drugs.
Cool. Like I said, I'd be interested in reading the study.
I would disagree with screening because it wouldn't have a purpose. Many high schools are screening ALL students for mental illness now including depression, i agree with that, because it can get these students help. Sensation-seeking and impulsivity aren't really considered illnesses, altho they can have consequences (i.e the study) If a student took the test and it showed he/she was an impulsive type, for example, what next? send them to a counselor for that? not really.
I believe many people are potential substance users, but i've seen many people try hard drugs and be able to handle it, whereas other people got hooked so fast. Some people can handle their highs, some can't. The question isn't substance USE, it's substance addiction.
Sorry, but I'm becoming increasingly unsure what point you're trying to make.
People have free will, even in the midst of crippling addiction.
More like it is used as an excuse by the medical community. Sure being an addict is hard, but it still comes down to personal choice. Addicts are not mindless zombies controlled by their urges. The millions of recovered addicts are testament to the human minds ability to overcome and recover.
heroin dealers are evil tho, they ruin people's lives for money that the addicts sometimes commit crimes to get so that they don't go into withdrawal.
Heroin dealers know what they are doing and they are fine profiting from it.
the only heroin dealers i don't despise are the ones who do it to feed their own habit, and that's because they're addicts just like their customers.
addiction is an illness, and these dealers are making it so much worse
Would you want a pharmacist to get life simply because he may have filled a opiate script to someone who was just using it to get high as opposed to being in pain?
My friends are ex heroin addicts and their doctor and the pharmacist happily give them scripts and drugs to keep going on their 8 year plus oxy addiction. I guess it saves them from having to source heroin. I'm pretty sure they have been legally using oxy for over 8 yrs now. Probably with top ups from illegal sources too.
Their doctor doesn't seem interested in getting them off it either.
Then that doctor should lose his medical license?
He's no better than a heroin dealer.
Honestly I'm not sure, I'm sure Nestor rings a bell somewhere (in my head). I just mention Hart as you mentioned how you would think you'd find it irresistible to spend any extra money you had on coke. That very well may be true (I don't know and it's not exactly my place to say I figure). Chances are however that most people wouldn't spend every last cent - or even all their extra grocery money - on coke (if it were as legal as booze and cigarettes and sold at the corner store as I'm assuming you were saying). Just a thought.