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 @unwitod and
“Addiction isn’t a cure for anything” “Who gives a shit”
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Replying to @Shatterface @unwitod and
You probably know more people than you think who are, by the strict definition of the term, "addicted" to a chemical substance
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
I’m well aware of that. How does the fact people have hidden addictions that they may not be aware of make addiction something we should feed?
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As far as addiction to "recreational" drugs goes I think it's a complicated matter - one much more complicated than conservatives admit - but I find the Rat Park study pretty convincing, and the guy who ran it has been converted to skepticism about the "addiction" framing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
Dysfunctional behavior isn't really about the substance, and banning or controlling substances isn't really worth the effort, it's been a massive social failure
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Talking of ‘massive social failures’, are YOU ever going to get back to arguing about how sex can be mutable?
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