Person A gets opiates on prescription because they are in pain. Person B doesn’t because they just like the buzz. It’s so unfair!
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
Oh are we gonna start talking about how awesome and successful gatekeeping drug access has been as a policy, and the totally unbiased and compassionate ways doctors make judgments about "drug-seeking" behavior
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
And again with the Gish-gallop. Do you think people should be entitled to free opiates for recreational purposes? Who should pay for them? Should we give them to kids like you want to do with puberty blockers and dildos?
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
That's not what "Gish gallop" means And no one has proposed making estradiol available to buy in bulk in the supermarket, although the analogy of getting high on hormones is stupid to begin with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
I am in support of recreational cannabis, though, and a general rethinking of policy on "recreational" drugs because the one we have doesn't work It's widely agreed the reason research on psychotropic meds has gone in circles for a decade is anything promising is too "abusable"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
Even Prozac got hit with that criticism ("You've got people who don't hit all the diagnostic criteria for depression getting Prozac scrips just to feel better") *Prozac*, which hardly sends you flying into the heavens to meet God God forbid people want to feel better
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Addiction isn’t a cure for anything.
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
Who gives a shit, the question is how well the patient functions and how happy they are and how able they are to fulfill their responsibilities Everything else is just pointless judgment The "addiction" stigma that keeps people off lifesaving meds and costs lives
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
This isn't even about trans rights anymore, this is the whole general argument about how biological essentialism/bioconservatism fucks us and holds us back Go ask disability activists how they feel about gatekeeping pain meds or psych meds to "reduce dependency"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
It does, of course, overlap with trans issues, and is part of the endless concern trolling over how we must look for conversion therapies on trans children that work to spare them a life of "dependence on artificial hormones"
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(Guess what pal you're a human in the 21st century industrialized world, you're dependent on an artificial something every second of your life Read Donna Haraway, we're all already cyborgs)
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