Betruger wrote:I don't know what you mean. Did the soviets know what neuroscience we know today? Tomorrow? Were they accurately informed and left free will or were they herded by narrow uncomprehensive protocol?
What exactly is "new innovation" referring to? Seems like an absolute pigeon hole, irrespective of anything. Note that I did and am saying education in the full sense, not just academics.
MSimon - I don't disagree.. My point is that some people are primed for runaway addiction at the cost of their medical and social health. If someone is self-medicating to make his way out of the hole, he's got a target, a purpose. Someone aimless, or aimless and with genetic dispositions for addictive behavior will make a mess of himself because of those, not because the drugs tell him to do it.
Betruger,
You seem to be ignorant of the current state of medical science - at least in America. In America - chronic drug use is considered self medication - at least in medical circles. Now I fail to see how medicating yourself for a condition is a form of self abuse. Especially if a doctor would prescribe a medication that attached to the same receptors as an illegal drug would for the condition in question.
Straight: if you get your anti-depressants from the medical cartel - well you are a fine upstanding citizen. If you get your anti-depressants from the gypsy drugstore you are a potential addict whose soul is in danger from a possible life long addiction to the illegal drug
DEMON.
Same dam n receptors.
I don't see any science here. I see total rank superstition.
So let me start out simple:
You have a medical problem that involves unfilled receptors. You can fill the receptors with compound #1 or compound #2.
The government decides to persecute users of compound #1 which can be bought on street corners or you can grow your own, while compound #2 is only available by prescription in drug stores.
Would you smell a rat?
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The only people primed for runaway "addiction" are people with untreated medical conditions. If the people get enough drugs from a doctor to ameliorate the condition it is called treatment. If the condition is severe to the point of debilitation and they get their medicine from the street we call them worthless junkies.
But there are categories of worthless junkies. Those that got the mental scars from war are accorded more respect than those who got them from an abusive father.
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Your whole premise only works if drugs cause addiction. If something else causes it, paying attention to drugs is a distraction. Now the people pulling off this distraction are at least as smart as I am and have access to the same open sources. So why do you think they are working to focus your mind on drugs to the exclusion of the rest of the evidence?
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Because long term "addiction" is genetic in nature only 20% of the population is susceptible. Of the 20% only those who have received a sufficiently strong emotional shock are liable to use drugs. And they should. They have a medical condition. When we can give it a name it is often called PTSD. But that is just one pathway. Another could be schizophrenia. The schizophrenic are notorious tobacco smokers.
Now explain to me why we should be hounding these people? Because Negroes and Jews are no longer acceptable?
Go back and look at the Jane Elliot experiments. It only took a few minutes to get people to hate based on eye color.
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/27/jan ... on-racism/
And the "hated" conformed to the stereotypes.
When I need to hate I like to focus it on the Andromeda Nebula - a place long ago and far away.
