Things that frustrate us all
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Indeed.
While I am not into weed and would never smoke it, I nonetheless think it should be legal, simply because it doesn't make people dangerous. Granted, it can make people stupid (and capable of, say, consuming a wad of cookie dough the size of a Doberman pinscher) but it doesn't make them crazy. So it's not likely that "driving while stoned" is going to be a problem...you can't drive if you can't find your feet.
Harder drugs, OTOH, I cannot in all good conscience support legalization of them.
Yeah, sorry, but I don't trust people enough to manage their medications. One of my clinical supervisors had a client come in with a gallon size ziploc bag full of pills without any clue which was for what. He had just gathered them over time. Suffice to say, he was not managing his mental or physical health well.
I think there is a certain place for management and oversight and this is probably one of them.
There are just too damn many drugs in general.
I mean, you've seen all those infomercials for drugs with names that sound like characters from Game of Thrones and have a list of side effects longer than a municipal phone book. Do we really, honest to goodness NEED all that crap?
I mean, you've seen all those infomercials for drugs with names that sound like characters from Game of Thrones and have a list of side effects longer than a municipal phone book. Do we really, honest to goodness NEED all that crap?
I know what you mean. I make it a personal game for myself to count the time used in the commercial for just side effects. Average drug commercial is about 50 seconds... side effects take up anywhere between 25-38 seconds.
It's insane.
It's insane.
Yes, totally agree. Some meds need regulation. But itch cream? What is so dangerous about Ketoconazole? It's the only damn thing that works!
I gave up on Auto Refill. It always screws up by refilling too early or too late, maybe because the days of months vary. I just call them about a week before I will be at the pharmacy.
I'm fairly sure the US is the only civilized nation that actually allows such ads. All other nations have this thing called common sense, so they've banned them.
We should try that.
Common sense really needs to make a comeback. Whether it be those ridiculous side effects which will almost never actually occur in daily use, or those ads with the last few seconds having disclaimers read at 500 times normal speed (what's the point in having those in the ad, if you can't fucking UNDERSTAND them?)...we need to bring back common sense.
Like in Crazy People. If all ads were required to be like that, I'd be a happy guy.
The "war on drugs" did nothing of the sort. Drug education, better access to addiction treatment and healthcare in general, and greater economic opportunities reduce drug dependency, not criminalizing addiction.
All the war on drugs did was to enrich private prison corporations by disproportionately incarcerating people of color and forcing them to perform de facto slave labor for the private corporations to profit from while undercutting legitimate businesses who can't compete with their contracting bids because they have bottom of the barrel labor costs.
All the war on drugs did was to criminalize generations of people struggling with addiction who needed treatment along with job opportunities and affordable housing and schooling, and instead substituted that with mandatory minimum sentencing and three strikes policies, turning them into convicted felons who will have difficulty finding meaningful employment once they get out, get sent to prisons where drugs are as commonplace as on the streets, force them to join gangs and radicalize / criminalize them to survive on the inside, and break up families, which continues the cycle of addiction and crime.
All the war on drugs did was give the cartels power and money by making their product a valuable commodity, and giving it the allure of doing something dangerous and illicit, ie. cool and exciting.
All the war on drugs did was to build up corrupt, extra-judicial mass murdering governments and groups that were frequently every bit as bad as the cartels they were fighting.
All the war on drugs did was cause us to prop up the Taliban not to allow farmers to cultivate poppies for opium/heroin production.
All the war on drugs has done is turn parts of Mexico, Central and South America into de facto warzones full of rebel kidnappings, cartel and gang violence and corrupt local officials every bit as murderous as the cartels themselves, with murder rates higher than Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria. Then when people try and flee the violence and seek asylum and a better life for their families in the US we brand them as criminals, rapists, and drug dealers and deny them entry, separate them from their children, or incarcerate them indefinitely.
All the war on drugs has done is create an excuse for police to disproportionately stop and search people of color and their vehicles and homes, which results in more of those people being killed or wounded by cops with itchy trigger fingers or inherent bias.
All the war on drugs has done is allow municipalities to seize and sell the assets of people (and that of their families) arrested in drug raids, even if those people have not yet been convicted of a crime. Assets they are not reimbursed for unless they go through a long legal process that costs them even more money. Which gives police incentive to seize more assets to enrich their budgets and allows them to buy more military hardware and pay higher salaries and schedule more overtime.
All the war on drugs has done is given our country the highest incarceration rate in the world, by far, and that includes most US states if they were treated like their own nations All while doing nothing to solve those persons addiction issues, and actually making it worse, because when they can't get a decent job when they get out, they're not going to stop getting high, and the money has to come from somewhere... so crime.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html
The war on drugs is an unmitigated disaster for everyone involved, except the bloodsucking leeches who profit from it, on both sides of the law.
Meanwhile, now the bloodsucking leeches are profiting in the trillions off of perfectly legal opioids, which, since it's more prevalent among white people is met with calls for treatment rather than incarceration, which is they way it should have been all along with drug addicts of any color or background.
The war on drugs put a lot of people in jail with punitive sentences. Don't give it credit for outreach programs to prevent people from getting addicted in the first place.
I'm grateful for working with prescribers who don't just write scripts willy-nilly, and actively look for additional supports, rather than defaulting to script writing for problem solving.
As the son of a doctor, I must respectfully disagree with @Holly-deck One but I do recognize one thing about doctors in general:
They can't write.
In fact I have inherited my dad's lousy penmanship...my signature looks like a dead spider.
But fortunately, signatures don't have to be legible. Just consistent!
They can't write.
In fact I have inherited my dad's lousy penmanship...my signature looks like a dead spider.
But fortunately, signatures don't have to be legible. Just consistent!
As the son of a doctor, I must respectfully disagree with @Holly-deck One but I do recognize one thing about doctors in general:
They can't write.
In fact I have inherited my dad's lousy penmanship...my signature looks like a dead spider.
But fortunately, signatures don't have to be legible. Just consistent!
Absolutely... doctors have the most atrocious handwriting. (Mine is also terrible. Someone once called it 'chicken scratch on crack'.) Horrible handwriting must be a prerequisite for all doctors... I have yet to encounter one whose writing I can read even somewhat easily.
I can understand, having a doctor as a dad, why you would disagree with my statement. I can only say that I am going by life experiences with myself, my family, my wife, her family, and close friends.
And I can tell you that I can count on a single hand (and still have fingers left over) the amount of times I've encountered a doctor that actually cared about a patient.
Oh yeah. My mom worked for doctors for 30 years as an NP, and she would attest to them same. She was grateful for typing and dictation of notesAs the son of a doctor, I must respectfully disagree with @Holly-deck One but I do recognize one thing about doctors in general:
They can't write.
In fact I have inherited my dad's lousy penmanship...my signature looks like a dead spider.
But fortunately, signatures don't have to be legible. Just consistent!
Wow, I have to say that my life experiences have been the exact opposite.
Now, to be fair, I don't really like my GP at all, and would certainly not put him in the "caring" category. But I have seen a number of specialists over the years, and the experience has always been positive. And my previous GPs were great, too, as have been any other GPs I've seen in a walk-in or after-hours clinic. And the vast majority of them have seemed to genuinely care. (Or at least have been exceptional at faking it, I suppose.)
I know there are bad examples in every profession, but based on my own experiences, I have nothing but good things to say about anyone in the health care profession.
IIRC, we're in different countries, so maybe that plays in to at least part of the difference? Or perhaps I've just been exceptionally lucky.
Wow, I have to say that my life experiences have been the exact opposite.
Now, to be fair, I don't really like my GP at all, and would certainly not put him in the "caring" category. But I have seen a number of specialists over the years, and the experience has always been positive. And my previous GPs were great, too, as have been any other GPs I've seen in a walk-in or after-hours clinic. And the vast majority of them have seemed to genuinely care. (Or at least have been exceptional at faking it, I suppose.)
I know there are bad examples in every profession, but based on my own experiences, I have nothing but good things to say about anyone in the health care profession.
IIRC, we're in different countries, so maybe that plays in to at least part of the difference? Or perhaps I've just been exceptionally lucky.
I'm in the U.S. Specifically, Miami, FL.
I will say that a vast majority of nurses have been really, really good and care a great deal. That side of the medical community, I can't give enough praise. Honestly, I've found nurses tend to give the best advice because they deal with patients on a more one-on-one level and they actually work for a living.
I think the big difference is nurses are the more blue collar version of the medical community. Doctors and specialists are white collar. Put a person from each collar of just about any type of profession and business, and it's actually surprising just how alike they are in terms of personality, caring, and snobbish/anti-snobbish behavior.
(I know this sounds classist, but it's seriously and truly what I have encountered.)