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Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

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Re: Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

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Post by FooBarBizBazz »

abduhl wrote: post #615
FooBarBizBazz wrote: post #613

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> You can back door around $70k per year into a Roth currently I believe. You can only backdoor $7k/year into a Roth IRA. That isn't much. If you have access to a qualifying 401k plan, you can mega-backdoor $46,000 into a Roth 401k. Many 401k plans do not support this, however. In practice, a plan is unlikely to support it if the company doesn't give a 401k match (it's basically impossible for a plan to meet the "non…

>> [Roth IRA stuff] Debating the availability of a Roth backdoor is something that's orthogonal to the discussion. I agree that your $46k number is the correct number, so adjust the numbers in my prior post as appropriate (e.g., it'll take 5 years to get to $200k in a retirement account). I still assert my primary conclusion: buying property is generally not the best option on a purely financial basis. >> [Options st…

Interesting points about those calls: "Go shorter but deeper in the money, and roll more often". Would be a pain to do by hand, unless you enjoy it as a hobby. Makes me think about moving to Interactive Brokers so I can play with the API. Probably won't happen, but who knows; I might get bored one month.

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Post by Spivak »

cbdhsjshs wrote: post #618
Spivak wrote: post #525

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I think you have a warped view of antidepressants, it's not a sad thing, kinda the opposite actually. Medicating with drugs and alcohol is the much sadder timeline. Pre-antidepressants my life was fantastic on paper: stable job, close friends, good family, strong relationship, perfect health. But none of it mattered, there was no happiness, no sadness, no fulfillment, no contentment, it's hard to convey the total abs…

> Pre-antidepressants my life was fantastic on paper: stable job, close friends, good family, strong relationship, perfect health I had the same. Post-SSRIs I have none of those things, and am surprised that I'm still alive. When I asked my shrink 'why zoloft?' the only reason was 'got to start somewhere'. I wish we had evidence-based psychiatry, but instead we have 'throw shit at the wall' psychiatry.

By this standard we don't have much evidence based anything in medicine. The process of finding a treatment that works for you by just trying things and see how it goes is true for lots of illnesses. My MiL tried 20+ different drugs for her chronic fatigue until she found one that worked.

Once you've been diagnosed with MDD and decide you're willing to try a medication the process of finding one that works and has tolerable side-effects starts. I don't really consider that to be "not evidence based." If you keep a medical journal while you try different drugs you're arguably doing science.

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Post by PaulHoule »

Spooky23 wrote: post #354
vouaobrasil wrote: post #6

I wonder if the new drug of choice is actually technology. In some ways I think that the addiction to technology has some similar mellowing effects as drugs. Some research indicates that smartphone addiction is also related to low self-esteem and avoidant attachment [1] and that smartphones can become an object of attachment [2]. The replacement of drugs by technology is not surprising as it significantly strengthens…

I think it’s not technology as a thing people are hooked to - it’s taken over social life. My 13 year old and his buddies socialize online, period. In person stuff is mostly organized. That is helped by school policy that got rid of the idea of a neighborhood school. Additionally, the social activities that coalesced around things like alcohol are out of reach of many teens. I live in a city that had a very active co…

See https://www.addictioncenter.com/behavioral-addictions/

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Post by int_19h »

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #607
mmooss wrote: post #580

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I'm not saying nobody in Poland did anything, but that isn't the standard. I think this is the story: https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/film-about-massacr...

>"Even if this terrible crime concerns only 1 percent of the Polish nation, it doesn't matter, because we want to know about that."

The problem is that for every 1 percent that actively does the nasty stuff, you have a lot more people watching and, at best, pretending that it doesn't concern them, and at worst, sympathizing with the violence.
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