Good parsing of headlines/stats. I'm the child of an alcoholic, so all the feels about how this drug gets to be legal while millions do time for small amounts of pot but... despite the recent headlines, little evidence that occasional drinkers are at some worrisome health risk.https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1032878415450386433 …
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It would be so much better if more people, journalists especially, got in the weeds of what the findings/stats actually mean, and that we had the real discussion: how do you preserve benefits/freedom while protecting those at risk of harm? Topic after topic falls into this trap.
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Alcohol causes damage/hurt around the world and competes with tobacco in harm; and little doubt it is also a cancer risk. On the other hand, the occasional drinkers of milder forms don't seem to be facing a huge risk. That's not a neat a story, and not a good headline! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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indeed. a genuine 80/20 situation.
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We seem to be so bad at dealing with those!
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Thank you for expressing this so; as a recovering addict offspring of an alcoholic, this nails much more than can be expressed in a tweet or six.
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There is clearly a subset for whom opiods are the best path for a reasonable quality of life and many seem to be doing just fine: they are dependent on it for pain relief but not in any kind of personal crisis over long-term well-managed use. So both short & long-term uses.
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