My wife is a pharmacist and understands addiction as well as I do, and has for years offered addicts access to Naloxone and clean needles. It’s not at all surprising or interesting that a chuckle head like Lauren Boebert fails to understand the public health benefit of reducing the transmission of diseases that threaten addicts. We can help treat addiction and at the same time reduce overdose deaths and the spread of disease. Wingnuts like Boebert can’t see beyond the end of their own noses, and they can’t fathom how an addict using a clean needle or pipe is better than a filthy, riskier one. But that’s because they don’t understand empathy or compassion, especially for people with whom they share little in common. You also can’t punish addicts if you are helping reduce their pain.
Why the same people continue to insist that the thing that has never worked will somehow, through the intense use of thoughts and prayers work this time.
It's idiocy and an outright waste of time, money, and human potential.
Now if only we could get a needle exchange program for people who mainline Foxnews. Or an intervention program to stop people from freebasing Boebarrt.
The doctors shouldn't have judged you like that. You and your family weren't pouring the booze down her throat. If you were putting her into rehab programs and pleading her case to the transplant team, you were trying to change the things you could and did the best you could. (a recovering alcoholic and physician, in that order)
No, they shouldn't have. It broke my mother. I think they were trying to figure out if we could be trusted to take care of her if she received a transplant and they did okay her for the list.
She died within a day or two of being put on the list.
Some parts of our lives are so horrifying that we just block them out. The three months leading up to Jen's death is one of them.
yeah, I had to go to college to learn "a pint is a pound, the whole world round."Perpetual dieting taught me how many grams are in an ounce.
The cruelty is the point.
My wife is a pharmacist and understands addiction as well as I do, and has for years offered addicts access to Naloxone and clean needles. It’s not at all surprising or interesting that a chuckle head like Lauren Boebert fails to understand the public health benefit of reducing the transmission of diseases that threaten addicts. We can help treat addiction and at the same time reduce overdose deaths and the spread of disease. Wingnuts like Boebert can’t see beyond the end of their own noses, and they can’t fathom how an addict using a clean needle or pipe is better than a filthy, riskier one. But that’s because they don’t understand empathy or compassion, especially for people with whom they share little in common. You also can’t punish addicts if you are helping reduce their pain.
Rinse, repeat.
Why the same people continue to insist that the thing that has never worked will somehow, through the intense use of thoughts and prayers work this time.
It's idiocy and an outright waste of time, money, and human potential.
Now if only we could get a needle exchange program for people who mainline Foxnews. Or an intervention program to stop people from freebasing Boebarrt.
when asked "have you no decency," they respond "here, hold my beer!."
He killed himself by shooting himself in the head. And then after that fatal shot he shoot himself in the head again.
The CIA later acknowledged that they were working with drug dealers and allowing the Contras to ship crack to the states.
https://time.com/3482909/th...
now we only get free* pens and swag from physical therapy and nursing care companies.
*because nothing is free. They keep tormenting me until throw them a referral.
yeah, I read that for being 10% of the world's population, we (the US) consume 90% of the world's opiates.
It was John Kerry who chased that down. It was entered into the Congressional record. Thanks
The "not wishing it on any other person" is what makes you different from the Boeberts and Gazpachos of the world
The doctors shouldn't have judged you like that. You and your family weren't pouring the booze down her throat. If you were putting her into rehab programs and pleading her case to the transplant team, you were trying to change the things you could and did the best you could. (a recovering alcoholic and physician, in that order)
(I can already buy my own cookie supply, thank you very much!/sn)
always should be
No, they shouldn't have. It broke my mother. I think they were trying to figure out if we could be trusted to take care of her if she received a transplant and they did okay her for the list.
She died within a day or two of being put on the list.
Some parts of our lives are so horrifying that we just block them out. The three months leading up to Jen's death is one of them.
Thanks.