I read the claim recently that compounds used recreationally are unusually likely to have therapeutic effects compared to random chemical
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it seems uncontroversial but I can’t find the source or any attempt at quantifying - anyone remember what I’m talking about?
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they’re including drugs used by human communities throughout the world including psychedelics not just what we’d call “recreational”
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I’m never gonna find it again huh
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omg
@TristanSevers found it http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/05/is-pharma-research-worse-than-chance/ …pic.twitter.com/9BaDOeQTyz
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Replying to @literalbanana @TristanSevers
also ugghh i'm disappointed this poast doesn't touch the third rail of using opioids (which is absolutely and incontrovertibly trad, by the way) for treatment of suicidality even though there's evidence that it actually works lol https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15040535?journalCode=ajp …
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yeah I wrote a whole chapter of a science book about that lol
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it makes me extremely mad that the focus isn’t just on making people feel better
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