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pretty difficult to overstate how tone deaf that is man wow

 

What a doofus.

I'll never forget that one of the first meds I ever prescribed was a narcotic. Today alone I had to increase the dose of pain meds to a young woman because she's tolerant, thanks to us. Heroin would do nothing for her considering the stuff we've pumped in her. I had a young guy just now nearly in tears trying to refuse pain meds because he has friends that got hooked after injuries.

Heroin dealers aren't black or Mexican, they wear white coats.

 

Lol at Reince Priebus on Meet The Press.

 

That's kind of overly broad. There is a case of objectively inferior products being peddled at comparable prices and not necessarily as a target of those who want to demonstrate wealth. For instance, it is my understanding that Beats By Dre, the most popular high-quality headphones brand, is actually really shitty when compared against its competitors.

It's natural for private vendors to raise their price points to maximize profits and their standing in the marketplace. It isn't natural, absent inappropriate power given to advertisement, that consumers, rich and poor, would buy inferior products and therefore reduce their own consumer spending efficiency just because they see their favorite athlete or hip hop artist wearing them.

 

Heroin shipment through Mexico is, in my opinion, one of the only valid arguments made by the border crowd. For whatever problems pharmaceutical America has, no reigning in will eliminate (nor necessarily meaningfully reduce) what is the single most dangerous drug epidemic in the country. The fact that there is still a lingering methamphetamine campaign from the previous decade in consideration of the fact that the drug is child's play compared to heroin is a really curious, but totally classist, phenomenon.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't any FDA-approved narcotic that even approaches the potency of heroin, correct? I used to have a pain pill problem (thank goodness my addictions didn't go in the direction of street opiates), but isn't the general criticism that it gives patients a "taste" of downers?

 

"No one seems to have an effective plan to deal with the possibility of much more severe inequality, should it develop. In the disturbing book “Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation,” (Oxford, 1983) Amartya Sen, a Harvard professor, documented an extraordinary thing: In each of four devastating famines in different parts of the world, there was enough food to keep everyone alive. The problem in each case was that the food was not shared adequately. Systems of privilege and entitlement permitted hoarding of food by people of status whose lives went on much as usual, except that they had to brush off starving beggars and would occasionally see dead bodies on the street."


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...ecome-tomorrows-catastrophe.html?ref=business

 

If a wall stops Mexican heroin from entering the southern border (it won't) then dealers will just start getting it from the Middle East again. Or addicts will just seek out painkillers instead. It's not a solution to the opiate addiction problem.


Fentanyl is way stronger than heroin. Dilaudid is close if not just as strong, would need to look it up. Oxycodone realistically isn't that far off at all especially at the right dosage. An opiate is an opiate is an opiate. I'm a recovering heroin addict so I feel I can speak on the differences between pharms and street drugs. There's not much a difference at all.

 

Terrorist group changes its name, US arms it to further regime change in Syria.

The Nusra Front’s Trap for the Syrian Opposition

Goddamn this administration is a joke.

 

Meanwhile, US ally Turkey engages with SDF coalition including YPG

 

A vote for Garfunkel and Oates is a vote for Trump--quit being so self-righteous!

 

I gained a lot of respect for Colin Kaepernick this week. If my facebook feed is any indication, he's going to take a ton of heat from NFL fans and commentators.

 

The dude running Jill Stein's twitter is a random stoner who loves memes, crystals, and hates GMOs, I'm sure of it

 

im already having nightmares about the harambe costumes on halloween

 

But does she speak for the trees?

 

New leaks prove it: the NSA is putting us all at risk to be hacked

 

I would say Bernie Sanders is the most like The Lorax

 

Apparently this is already a thing. I concede haha.

 

Jill Harth Speaks Out, Stands by Story of Being Sexually Assaulted by Donald Trump

 

Jill Stein Embraces The Internet And Endorses Her Own Dank Memes

 

Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis

Woah

 

Shorter: if it was up to us we'd ruin everything