> “My heroin use is as rational as my alcohol use” What an incredibly dangerous idea to promote. Do not mess with opioids. You think you are in control, until you are not.
Alcohol is not any better.
Metaphysically maybe but physically, not really.
I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
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#292> Hart strives to “present a more realistic image of the typical drug user: a responsible professional who happens to use drugs in his pursuit of happiness.” I think this is likely wrong. I guess it partly depends on the definition of a "drug user" (like, does it include alcohol drinkers) but I would be very surprised if most heroin users are responsible professionals - how can you do anything when you're high on her…
Friend of mine is from Pakistan. He says that the guys who drive heavy trucks through the mountains always take heroin first. Helps them keep calm when navigating a road which has sections only marginally wider than the truck, with a 500m drop on one side. I'm not promoting DUI (lost too many friends that way, mostly from OTHER people DUI'ing and hitting them), just saying that there are professions where the people…
Are you sure he’s not talking about charas?
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#293> “My heroin use is as rational as my alcohol use” What an incredibly dangerous idea to promote. Do not mess with opioids. You think you are in control, until you are not.
Alcohol is not any better.
Good grief, yes it is.
It's not nearly as addictive. It's not nearly as deadly. It's much easier to control dosage. It has modes of consumption that are non-pathological.
This is typical of the distorted anglo-saxon view of alcohol as a tool for getting flat-out drunk. This is not how most of the world relates to alcohol, nor is it a healthy relationship with it.
Honestly, this says more about you than about booze.
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#294This guy's whole viewpoint seems to be pinned on "it's not addiction if it's not negatively affecting the rest of your life" (yes, I know this is a major criteria for a lot of medical diagnosis, addiction included). The problem is that what it takes "negatively affect the rest of your life" depends a lot on what role you have in society. Short of pornography producer, fantasy fiction author, songwriter and other prof…
> a tenured college professor gets about about as much leeway from the rest of society as a white collar professional can get Doesn’t this bolster the argument that the principal damage from this type of drug use is social, not chemical?
A better way to say that is that if the tenured professor accidentally takes 5mg more, or has an off day, he doesn't kill somebody while driving a truck, or someone who programs a circuit wrong and causes a dump of chemical into a water supply.
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#295> “My heroin use is as rational as my alcohol use” What an incredibly dangerous idea to promote. Do not mess with opioids. You think you are in control, until you are not.
Ugh. Come on. Be part of the solution, not the problem. We should be promoting safe use and harm reduction education , not these bullshit blanket statements such as 'do not mess with opioids'/'say no to drugs', and stop using them quick. Otherwise the people who inevitably will/do use, only hear and have only heard, 'don't do it to start' or get ostracized instead of getting the help they need or the education they n…
>We should be promoting safe use and harm reduction education
Right, but this is harm-denial.
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#296Let's check in on this guy in a few years.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fully agree. Carl is a white collar professor. The worst thing that can happen if his drug indulgence becomes a problem is he knocks over the water cooler or loses his job. I work a blue collar job servicing heavy diesel engines. Casual hard drug users are aggravatingly cavalier to work alongside. They forget important things constantly. They show up late and lose things often. You'll spend all day repeating things t…
Not defending drug use at work, but if you're to be fired it should be for the performance related issues you mentioned caused by the drug, not because of the drug itself. Edit for more context: Depending on the drug, substances consumed outside of working hours would still show up in a drug test. Firing someone for something they do outside of work shouldn't be acceptable. If you can prove they consumed drugs that w…
Proactive vs reactive? If you can tell someone will cause an accident, you don't wait until it happens.
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#298When you rationalize your drug habit so hard you write a book
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#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fully agree. Carl is a white collar professor. The worst thing that can happen if his drug indulgence becomes a problem is he knocks over the water cooler or loses his job. I work a blue collar job servicing heavy diesel engines. Casual hard drug users are aggravatingly cavalier to work alongside. They forget important things constantly. They show up late and lose things often. You'll spend all day repeating things t…
Not defending drug use at work, but if you're to be fired it should be for the performance related issues you mentioned caused by the drug, not because of the drug itself. Edit for more context: Depending on the drug, substances consumed outside of working hours would still show up in a drug test. Firing someone for something they do outside of work shouldn't be acceptable. If you can prove they consumed drugs that w…
I'd like to know the word that describes the sort of cognitive dissonance in your comment.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fully agree. Carl is a white collar professor. The worst thing that can happen if his drug indulgence becomes a problem is he knocks over the water cooler or loses his job. I work a blue collar job servicing heavy diesel engines. Casual hard drug users are aggravatingly cavalier to work alongside. They forget important things constantly. They show up late and lose things often. You'll spend all day repeating things t…
The author is not suggesting you take heroin at work, any more than it would be acceptable to drink alcohol at work.
Are we equating alcohol with heroin?