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Mundipharma is owned by the Sacklers, aka Purdue. This makes me incredibly angry to read they are repeating the same playbook in Asia, paying doctors and using incredibly misleading and flat out false marketing to get patients addicted. They just offered to sell Munipharma... But feels too small to me. I won't believe justice is done until every penny is recovered from them personally as they've already syphoned out…
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I used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the p…
This sounds awful but i would say somewhat believable because many middle class people do coke regularly and apart from usually, picking a few kilos, they still look OK and keep their careers, families and the stuff. For sure it's not nearly as bad as if they were drinking. My ex is a writer and she was mostly writing on coke, she's as far from being a lost in life drug-addicted person as it gets, honestly i'm a lot…
Coke is both better and worse. Not quite as addictive, but it seems to damage people more than heroin does (particularly mentally).
> In the Mankhurd slum in Mumbai, where the average life expectancy is 39 I wish articles didn't use life expectancy which is always misleading and confusing since it's severely affected by infant mortality. What would be more interesting would be 2 numbers, infant mortality and life expectancy at age 5.
So the death rate before 5 doesn't matter - I am sure it matters a LOT to the parents of those kids that die very young.
People who haven't done drugs don't really have the right to talk about drugs. It's like people who haven't done sky diving trying to make laws againt sky diving. Rich people do drugs too but it's always when poor people do it it's somehow bad.
Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
I used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the p…
Of course what really happens is that a rich person takes more and more, gets more and more addicted and thus must take more for the same effect, until they take enough heroin to literally turn off their heart and they die, usually in their bathtub. How many people die from a tylenol overdose.
If you make heroin legal you just ensure the same fate reaches many more people. Perhaps we can make heroin legal for people already addicted but lets not kid ourselves that is just kind of a prolonged assisted suicide.
I have no doubt that you feel miserable and you felt much better on heroin, but that is a product of your addiction rather than anything else. Healthy people can feel mental and physical clarity without drugs.
People who haven't done drugs don't really have the right to talk about drugs. It's like people who haven't done sky diving trying to make laws againt sky diving. Rich people do drugs too but it's always when poor people do it it's somehow bad.
Have you actually dealt with people on drugs? Do you know how it effects their families?
Mundipharma is owned by the Sacklers, aka Purdue. This makes me incredibly angry to read they are repeating the same playbook in Asia, paying doctors and using incredibly misleading and flat out false marketing to get patients addicted. They just offered to sell Munipharma... But feels too small to me. I won't believe justice is done until every penny is recovered from them personally as they've already syphoned out…
Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
Do you mean auto rickshaw, bicycle rickshaw, or hand rickshaw?
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The addictive and tolerance building effects of opiates are pretty bad. Heroin may make you feel better, but the withdrawal effects are horrific. Heroin legalization would help people get off the addiction. But it should not be done to encourage people take more opiates.
I remember some addiction treatment centers in certain countries (was it UK?) were allowed to prescribe opiates including heroin as part of program to wean people off it. Is that gone as part of some stupid war on drugs or other?
From https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/drug-addiction-get...:
> If you're dependent on heroin or another opioid drug, you may be offered a substitute drug, such as methadone.