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In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by dang »

Kaiyou wrote: post #56
kranner wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Highlighting Jewish heritage when it is not relevant in this context, thus insinuating that it is relevant in this context, is anti-semitism.

Since it's not the first time someone pointed out some "evil doers" do have a Jewish heritage, it seems to become a pattern, and thus interesting to know. Founders of Google and Facebook have a Jewish heritage, too, for example.

If you post like this again we will ban you.

We've banned the account above, for obvious reasons.

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by pvaldes »

foobar_ wrote: post #58
pvaldes wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When on earth have we had a conversation about regulating drugs? A few lines above, when you put as example "would be like trying to make laws against sky diving without experiencing sky diving". Making laws = regulating I never talked about banning sex, or cars, I said that even people that do not drive can (and will) have a word about regulating car use, in their own interest, and also for the public interest. Sa…

Do you even have a point to make other than ... you don't really like people doing them? Drugs are not regulated but are illegal. If you don't understand the difference between regulating and illegality ... you are so intelligent.

> you don't understand the difference between regulating and illegality

illegal ∈ regulated

> Drugs are not regulated but are illegal

Drugs are strongly regulated (ask your pharmacist) AND some of them are strongly regulated AND are also illegal

Illegal by definition means that there was a regulation that created this status. Those drugs would be alegal otherwise.

Regulated means that for some special cases the use is allowed, even if is not ok for a recreational uses. A physicist can have solid reasons to give a morphine derivative to somebody in a perfectly legal situation

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by Kaiyou »

dang wrote: post #61
Kaiyou wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since it's not the first time someone pointed out some "evil doers" do have a Jewish heritage, it seems to become a pattern, and thus interesting to know. Founders of Google and Facebook have a Jewish heritage, too, for example.

If you post like this again we will ban you. We've banned the account above, for obvious reasons.

The reasons aren't obvious to me, but I'll try to keep this in mind.

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by AstralStorm »

pvaldes wrote: post #62
foobar_ wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you even have a point to make other than ... you don't really like people doing them? Drugs are not regulated but are illegal. If you don't understand the difference between regulating and illegality ... you are so intelligent.

> you don't understand the difference between regulating and illegality illegal ∈ regulated > Drugs are not regulated but are illegal Drugs are strongly regulated (ask your pharmacist) AND some of them are strongly regulated AND are also illegal Illegal by definition means that there was a regulation that created this status. Those drugs would be alegal otherwise. Regulated means that for some special cases the use i…

Yes, and heroin too, or fentanyl.

So they're not exactly illegal.

Some other classes of drugs are totally illegal for use in humans. (Limited to research only with extra hoops.) Not opiates.

Examples include: LSD, MDMA (changing), PCP, Psylocybin, Psilocin, Muscarine, a bunch of chemically similar drugs and a few other hallucinogens. THC and CBD were in this class and are now legal in some countries and states of USA.

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by collyw »

gambiting wrote: post #46
collyw wrote: post #4

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.

Just as in interesting sidenote - heroine(diamorphine) is actually used legally as pain relief in some countries, even UK uses it for palliative care.

I am aware of that. Apparently most of the damaging effects come from the crap it is cut with when buying street heroin. (Again just stuff I have read, no first hand experience).

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by collyw »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #57
gingabriska wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you are right but the point stays. Now they'll not have aching body from hardwork.

Rickshaw also means motorcycle (usually cng) with a cabin, not just pedal powered.

I would have called that a tuk-tuk.

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by collyw »

wtdata wrote: post #37
collyw wrote: post #34

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Is it? I have seen Youtube videos mentioning large numbers of soldiers in Vietnam being addicted and being able to come off relatively easily when they got their normal life back. (Saying that one of them might be one of the two Kurtzgesagt videos that they decided to remove afterwards).

Youtube videos aren't a source of truth or science.

The same applies to comments on HN.

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Post by collyw »

aedron wrote: post #22
anovikov wrote: post #8

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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…

From my personal observations, I don't think coke is quite comparable to heroin. Heroin takes over a person's life in a much more scary way than coke. Heroin becomes the number one thing every day, before food, family, or any other concern. Granted, you can easily be a high functioning heroin addict, if the expense and acquisition are not concerns, but at a point, heroin merely makes you 'normal', and even slightly o…

Isn't it only 10% of heroin users that become addicts?

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by wglb »

thundergolfer wrote: post #31
wuiyn wrote: post #28

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Jews destroying the lives of people just to extract money off of them? Can't be.

Mods please ban this user. Textbook anti Semitism.

emailing the mods is the best way to get their attention about things like this.

Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

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Post by gingabriska »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #57
gingabriska wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you are right but the point stays. Now they'll not have aching body from hardwork.

Rickshaw also means motorcycle (usually cng) with a cabin, not just pedal powered.

The place where I am in North India.

Those motor ones are called Vikram or Auto, and only manual one is called Riskshaw but now electric one is also called Rickshaw.

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