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Or David Nutt's suggestion that, as a public health issue, we should be trying to engineer a drug with the same subjective effects as alcohol but without the toxicity or addictiveness: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol... (such a chemical would, in practice, be immediately banned in most countries)
Isn't this what quaaludes were in the 70s and 80s? (and they were quickly banned)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or David Nutt's suggestion that, as a public health issue, we should be trying to engineer a drug with the same subjective effects as alcohol but without the toxicity or addictiveness: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/alcohol... (such a chemical would, in practice, be immediately banned in most countries)
Isn't this what quaaludes were in the 70s and 80s? (and they were quickly banned)
Doesn't seem to fit the bill to me, it has strong withdrawal effects and makes people do reckless things, according the link above.
While we are at it, can we list some other addictions that we use to cope with life. Me personally, it's gambling, pornography, sulking alone, facebooking acquaintances to see how they're doing better than me or worse, checking sports score and living vicariously through the lives of professional athletes on and off the field, checking TechCrunch/Hack News and doing the same with tech billionaires, making up lists an…
Your rant is too long to read.
While we are at it, can we list some other addictions that we use to cope with life. Me personally, it's gambling, pornography, sulking alone, facebooking acquaintances to see how they're doing better than me or worse, checking sports score and living vicariously through the lives of professional athletes on and off the field, checking TechCrunch/Hack News and doing the same with tech billionaires, making up lists an…
The people in most European countries will be less welcoming at first, but I can tell you, if you stick through you will find them to be more profound.
It helps that we don't have an American Dream which focusses on financial prosperity through hard work, but rather a joy of life (joie de vivre) which encourages us to enjoy the beauty of life and nature.
Travel to Tuscany or Portugal and see for yourself.
I drink way too much. I've accepted this. What stops me from drinking way too much? Not much, because I'm able to rationalize my drinking with the many beneficial effects touted. There's a lot of information about how drinking a bit is helpful for heart disease and how it basically reduces mortality across the board. More information is needed about how drinking is HARMFUL beyond cirrhosis and the short term effects…
IIRC, someone else with more expertise may show up, but the studies showing that drinking is helpful for heart disease say that this is about drinking one. Not "way too much" - mortality increases dramatically if you drink way too much, over what it would be if you didn't drink at all. The advantage of drinking is completely erased by drinking too much. The message isn't as mixed as you think.
Alcohol overuse makes you look old (yes I will appeal to vanity); it suppresses your bone marrow and makes you anemic; it causes dilated cardiomyopathy; it destroys the liver in time and will make you gut dump fluid into your belly, causing you pain until you develop liver cancer or bleed into your throat and die; it causes its own form of brain wasting; etc. It is an extraordinarily dirty drug.
Most of these effects come from sustained heavy drinking, but many people can sustain this level of drinking and still be productive, so that is not a useful gauge of how heavy your drinking is.
Many of my most gifted employees, partners and colleagues are/were heavy drinkers (not alcoholics; I know those, but in other professions); I see a lot of programmers drink heavily simply to 'forget'. For many there simply are not a lot of ways to leave the problem solving of the day for the next day or, god forbid, over the weekend. The only way to lift it over a period is dope (or burnout) for them. I see it as a b…
Many of my most gifted employees, partners and colleagues are/were heavy drinkers (not alcoholics; I know those, but in other professions); I see a lot of programmers drink heavily simply to 'forget'. For many there simply are not a lot of ways to leave the problem solving of the day for the next day or, god forbid, over the weekend. The only way to lift it over a period is dope (or burnout) for them. I see it as a b…
Exercise. You are focused on reps or breathing and you zone out. Really effective way to shift your focus and improves mental condition too.
Even the concept of singular occupant motor vehicular accidents(Drunk or not) are not quite what they necessarily seem.
Having in mind how many deaths are caused by health issues related to obesity what number should be in headline "Eating behind _ in 10 deaths of working-age adults"?
Obesity alone is not the cause of those deaths; it is just another symptom. In fact, when fat is stored subcutaneously, there appears to be little to no increase in mortality, and, for some (middle aged women at least), it is actually protective. The real disease is metabolic syndrome , which affects both thin people and fat people. It is a constellation of disorders including abdominal weight gain, fatty liver disea…