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How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by Grangar »

provemewrong wrote: post #342
VonGuard wrote: post #322

I am almost ashamed to admit I have read these forums for years as a sort of exercise in voyeuristic schadenfreude. I just love reading about drug culture, watching drug movies, etc. Just like I love gangster movies. I can't explain it. A few things I have learned: /r/glassine is probably the most interesting. They rate heroin bags in the Pittsburg area. It's supposed to be for everywhere, but it's mostly Pennsylvani…

Me too. Besides what you mentioned, I'm particularly fond of /r/mdma, /r/psychonaut and /r/rationalpsychonaut (for discussions about psychedelics sans spirituality and religion). Also /r/nootropics. And /r/drugs in general. Don't forget /r/trees, which is of course the gateway subreddit, but it's rather boring in comparison.

/r/cocaine is another pretty decent one. Mostly people posting pics of lines but there's the occasional announcement of quitting where people get really supportive

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by Grangar »

DanBC wrote: post #262
Animats wrote: post #249

“Around my area, I believe a lot of people use [opioids] out of boredom. There’s no jobs, no way to have fun besides video games and riding four-wheelers and motorcycles. There’s nowhere to go except a run-down mall over in another county.” Sizable numbers of people get into opiates out of boredom? I thought this was driven by people with chronic pain.

About 8% to 12% of people prescribed opioids long term will become addicted to them. The US prescribes far more opioids than any other developed nation. These two combine and there are a bunch of people without addiction, but with spare pills. Those pills have a market value, and so they get sold. Or relatives of the patient find the pills and take them.

Then there's also the issue of getting addicted to prescribed pills.

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by saiya-jin »

uiri wrote: post #333
NumberCruncher wrote: post #265

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The United States alone holds over 45 percent of the global pharmaceutical market [1]. And less then 5 percent of earths population. Welcome to the society of pharmaceutical addiction. [1] https://www.statista.com/topics/1719/pharmaceutical-industry...

You're comparing a measure in dollars with a measure in people. Yes, per capita expenditure on prescription medication is high in the US. Most other countries have a national health care system which negotiates the price for the whole country. The US market is where pharmaceutical companies expect to recoup their R&D costs, which makes drugs more expensive in the US than anywhere else. This effectively means that the…

LOL what a sad comment. US in this regard is a place of misery and ridiculousness beyond belief, and your argument is that it's all good and OK and for the greater good of mankind?

it's far simpler, pharma has much, much more influence in politics in US compared to say EU, and they do what they do just because they can. nothing more, nothing less.

plus there are tons of other systemic issues in healthcare on US soil, ie ridiculous amount of overprescriptions or overall costs of any procedure. again, they do it because nobody stops them, no regulation, cca monopoly etc.

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by Grangar »

jimmaswell wrote: post #71
lsmarigo wrote: post #24

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Reddit has some fantastic and fascinating communities and really interesting cult-like ones (/r/nofap) However I'd like to point out the admin policy towards hate groups and speech on reddit is in my opinion incredibly dangerous and damaging to our society. They will take action against subreddits like FPH (fat people hate) because of "real life" actions, meawhile there are thousands of highly upvoted calls to violen…

It's often said that the admins simply only shut down a subreddit once its negative publicity is enough to start hurting the website's brand or ad revenue in some way.

That's what happened with FPH. They started calling out Imgur staff, that's what got them banned.

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by Grangar »

TheLilHipster wrote: post #289
dionidium wrote: post #154

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If you really understood addiction, you'd understand that this is like saying that you don't want to treat someone with cancer, since they seemingly insist on recurring time and time again even after chemo and radiation, continuing to have cancer until their death. But, of course, you're not thinking of addition as a medical issue. You're treating it like a moral failure .

I usually wouldn't post this sort of stuff, as it is a pretty taboo opinion that just gets buried. But If I don't get any discourse, I can't learn anything or have my opinion changed, anyway here we go... > If you really understood addiction. I hear this dismissive retort a lot in the addict community. It's nonsense. If you can't empirically analyze, measure and explain "what its like", or defend your view-point rati…

Some people have a genetic predisposition to addiction. Once you get addicted your mind gets warped - that's why it's an illness and not a moral failure.

Would you judge the deeds of a psychotic person as moral failure as well? It's a hyperbole for sure but it's definitely comparable.

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by CM30 »

ucarion wrote: post #86
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #55

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Violent, hateful, disgusting speech has no place in civil discourse but it's irreplaceable in public discourse. That's kinda the problem. As a species, our entire communications spectrum can't be forced into either bucket. It has to exist in both. The kind of things I wouldn't tolerate at all around my family I'm fine tolerating around my friends. And the kind of things I wouldn't tolerate from a friend I'm fine tole…

The commenter you replied to may have a point. Just because vile speech has a place in public discourse, doesn't mean it is good to present that speech in a very public way. Reddit is among the most widely-used websites in the world -- 7th, by Alexa's rankings. Reddit lives up to its motto of being the front page of the internet. Imagine one of the top-10 newspapers in the United States were occasionally publishing s…

The number 1 most popular newspaper in the UK basically is publishing stuff you'd see on The Donald. As are many of the tabloids.

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My husband is 80 years and has been suffering from PD for the past 15 years. Lately he started hallucinating and I didn't know how to handle the situation. He cannot sleep and tried to find and catch the imaginary people who he thinks are real. he was taken Entacapone with Levodopa, Carbidopa, and Pramipexole and started physical therapy to strengthen muscles. nothing was really working to help his condition.I took him off the Siferol (with the doctor’s knowledge) and started him on parkinson’s herbal formula i ordered from Health Herbal Clinic, his symptoms totally declined over a 5 weeks use of the Parkinsons disease natural herbal formula.i read reviews from other previous patients who used the herbal formula, my husband is now active, he can now go about daily exercise!! his symptoms so much reduced that now I hardly notice them.Visit there website www. healthherbalclinic. net or email Info@ healthherbalclinic. net

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by member221 »

My husband is 80 years and has been suffering from PD for the past 15 years. Lately he started hallucinating and I didn't know how to handle the situation. He cannot sleep and tried to find and catch the imaginary people who he thinks are real. he was taken Entacapone with Levodopa, Carbidopa, and Pramipexole and started physical therapy to strengthen muscles. nothing was really working to help his condition.I took him off the Siferol (with the doctor’s knowledge) and started him on parkinson’s herbal formula i ordered from Health Herbal Clinic, his symptoms totally declined over a 5 weeks use of the Parkinsons disease natural herbal formula.i read reviews from other previous patients who used the herbal formula, my husband is now active, he can now go about daily exercise!! his symptoms so much reduced that now I hardly notice them.Visit there website www. healthherbalclinic. net or email Info@ healthherbalclinic. net

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by eregorn »

Karunamon wrote: post #231
eregorn wrote: post #221

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www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6md2i1/remember_folks_this_is_what_all_muslims_men_want/ is +73 positive enough? I wanted to give at least one example but its a bit hard since the work comp doesn't load reddit and my cell has terrible reception here. However, this is mostly about me wondering if you're being honest about this. I have seen this rhetoric before (show me a link!) and it usually isn't long before so…

> is +73 positive enough? No, because that indicates the post didn't resonate with the user base there. Front page the_donald posts usually start at 5000 points and up. That tells me that the sentiment isn't really shared all that much. On much smaller communities with much lower average scores, this would be more significant. On top of that, unless you install a third party addon or disable CSS (most users will not)…

There is a third exception: being on mobile reddit. Admittedly, while the average user in general is more likely on a phone than a desktop nowadays, I don't know if the average The_Donald user is. I very much would doubt it, but I'll let it stand and stand by my admission I wasn't in the greatest position to post a link.

So instead, How about +4614?

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/6o7qas/reminder_12_of_th...

While cousin marriages are a problem, they definitely aren't half in the middle east. 50% is only reached in Pakistan and one African country that I'm not sure why its included in the first place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_in_the_Middle_...

Re: How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

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Post by collyw »

VonGuard wrote: post #322

I am almost ashamed to admit I have read these forums for years as a sort of exercise in voyeuristic schadenfreude. I just love reading about drug culture, watching drug movies, etc. Just like I love gangster movies. I can't explain it. A few things I have learned: /r/glassine is probably the most interesting. They rate heroin bags in the Pittsburg area. It's supposed to be for everywhere, but it's mostly Pennsylvani…

Try some trip reports for Datura on Erowid. Interesting and scary. A substance that I don't need to try.
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