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What's next, "America's caffeine epidemic"? Interspersed with all this pedantry is a smarmy judgement towards stimulants and COMPLETE LACK of context of the times, and a lack of any societal or species context that recognizes the BREATHTAKING ACHIEVEMENTS during said times of "Oh so bad bad we should be ashamed it's an epidemic!" There's an undercurrent here that is almost criminal. The sin is not excess, certainly a…
5mg of amphetamine, while a light dose, is much stronger than a strong cup of coffee.
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Addiction is a disease of loneliness.
Avoiding and staying out of HALT situations is an addiction recovery motto: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
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Sorry, but that's just one person. In what situation would you trust a study based on one person? I know, lots of people go crazy on meth. There is also god knows what else in street meth. There are so many people taking amphetamines that are successful and there are people taking prescription methamphetamine as well. Personally I wouldn't want to be on stimulants, long term, on a daily basis. But just because you kn…
>In what situation would you trust a study based on one person? Anytime someone else makes a blanket statement with no study (example: amphetamine doesn't make you crazy)...all you need is n=1 to disprove that.
Do you want to reduce drug addiction? Make the world a better place. Everyone suffers so much. Loneliness, depression and anxiety and becoming more prevalent. These are increased risk factors for addiction.
I've long suspected that a lot of illegal drug usage is actually an attempt on self-medication
Alcohol is a very popular form of self-medication.
https://turningpointtreatmentcenter.com/why-are-intelligent-...
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Are you familiar with the rat park experiment? You’re making claims directly supported by its findings. One of the most interesting was that happy rats who had pleasant quarters and social interaction would choose not to take drugs (morphine, iirc) even if they had used them previously. Pretty interesting stuff.
Johann Hari has written extensively on the subject in his book Connections. I am a little nervous to link to joe rogan here but fuck it, here's a good interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDpjvFn4wgM I do not 100% agree with Hari, who focuses almost exclusively on environmental factors. They are important but not the complete picture, IMO - there are physiological components too; alcohol dependency to me appears…
https://theoutline.com/post/2205/this-38-year-old-study-is-s...
And Johann Hari is universally understood to be an incorrigible charlatan.
What's next, "America's caffeine epidemic"? Interspersed with all this pedantry is a smarmy judgement towards stimulants and COMPLETE LACK of context of the times, and a lack of any societal or species context that recognizes the BREATHTAKING ACHIEVEMENTS during said times of "Oh so bad bad we should be ashamed it's an epidemic!" There's an undercurrent here that is almost criminal. The sin is not excess, certainly a…
> Stimulants do NOT, in themselves, make you crazy. Perhaps. They do, however, have a pretty direct relationship with overly verbose writing and excessive use of all-caps formatting.
But I assume many artistic people take them, and I think that is the Faustian deal with the Devil.
Perhaps this is the answer to this question https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I have a dark suspicion that it has something to do with the rise of computers, of information economy. When some people can take advantage of computers and others can't that leads to income disparity.