Legal opiates popularized illegal ones though, and once that happened the damage was done. When I first started as a prosecutor, heroin was almost unheard of, it was all cocaine. By the time I finished my career as a prosecutor cocaine was almost unheard of, it was all heroin (and to a lesser extent meth).
Dopesick was pretty informative and good I thought although kind of boring at times through the series. Still glad I watched it.
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That’s got to be micro stakes compared to investing with more knowledge than the rest of us.
I don’t put it on the doctors (for the most part), I think they were duped like everyone else.
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Legal opiates popularized illegal ones though,
This, imo, is bullshit. People still are getting into illegal ones despite massive cutbacks in the legal ones. I’m definitely outside the mainstream on that position, but I like were I am.
and once that happened the damage was done.
That’s not really how it works. You don’t use heroin once (or even a few times) and are addicted.
When I first started as a prosecutor, heroin was almost unheard of, it was all cocaine. By the time I finished my career as a prosecutor cocaine was almost unheard of, it was all heroin (and to a lesser extent meth).
That’s because that’s what you were dealing with in law enforcement. I saw tons of cocaine, pcp, etoh, (but less meth in NYC). Hell, cops brought them in to us so they didn’t have to deal with them.
If you want my nuclear hot take, the use of heroin isn’t the real problem. It’s the use of impure shit laced with fentanyl using dirty needles.
The people I met were already addicted long before they tried heroin for the first time. Very few people were like “You know what? I think I’ll try heroin today.” Also, fentanyl is bad, but that seems to be a more recent thing.
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heroin, fentanyl, and more aren’t bad. They’re drugs. They’re neither good or bad.
The bad is the random amounts of fentanyl in drugs and tainted supply in general.
Harris Wittels, best known as a writer for Parks & Recreation, talked about how he went from pills to heroin because he could get way more heroin for the same amount of money and going from snorting pills to injecting heroin got him waaaaay higher.
It was just remarkable how many people i met with the exact same story. Every single time. The pills eventually got too expensive on the street (after they had been cut off by a doctor), and heroin was cheaper. It was shocking to me just how much everyone had the same damned story. Meanwhile they were always my witnesses on drug related homicides because I somehow ended up catching all the murders where the victim was selling heroin.
I don’t know, by the same logic guns aren’t bad either. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think we should be banning prescription painkillers, since they clearly serve an important purpose. But I also have seen a ton of evidence (anecdotal, I admit) that the overprescription of opiates led to some really bad outcomes.
I use fentanyl all the time on my patients. It’s great. The difference between guns and drugs is that vast amount of public health research doesn’t support prohibition.
I’m not clear on this. You mean like in this drawing, with the spout viewed from above and in dark blue? When you say middle, do you mean at the points of inflection for the curvature (red dots)? When you say max and min, do you mean flow rates over those portions of the spout?
that’s definitely bad for joe biden
Not sure why one would be impressed with failure. If he succeeded, then I could see a case for being impressed.
Not going to link it because fuck RT, but “State controlled Russian propaganda outlet says Russia about escalate war Russia started” is an interesting development to unwrap.
I did not expect to see the music teacher dressed as the devil running around with other students also dressed as devils.
This would’ve been just extremely weird if not for their liberal use of blackface -_-. Of course, there are literally zero black students or staff members in the school (and practically none in the entire country). So, no one thought anything of it apparently.
“Think about what a gift to the Chinese and the Russians something like this is.”
I’m dead