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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.
Anti-Semitism is poison and not allowed here.
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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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…
How hard was it for you to quit? Did you go to rehab?
I quit my job as a developer (because I knew I would get fired if I kept my lifestyle the same), broke the lease on my apartment and moved to my parents house for a month and got a doctor to give me suboxone. Am I a lot happier person now? For sure l. But I’m still addicted to opiates. Really the only difference is that now my opiates cost $100/month instead of $6000/month. If I could have gotten heroin for the same price I would never have quit, and honestly, probably feel better.
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It's not so useful if you're looking at the overall health of an area though, since infant mortality is a slightly different beast.
well overall health of some area can't be that great if you have high infant mortality
They're likely correlated. Might be interesting to look at the outliers (places with low child mortality and low life expectancy after 5 and places with high child mortality and high life expectancy after 5)
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#74Indian medical system is something that one can't even imagine living in the Western world. The vast majority of 'doctors' are actually quacks. I learned that my maid used to go for weekly 'steroid shots' to some quack in her neighborhood. Her reasoning was that everybody did so. I offered to pay her to visit a regular doctor but she refused. She was also significantly malnourished and would drink sugar solution occa…
If you were willing to pay for her doctor and breakfast, but she wouldn't accept it, wouldn't if have been an option to just raise her wages?
Wages were not an issue, her knowledge was. She'd regularly buy expensive, overpriced trinkets. Also, she had two older brothers who got priority, so paying her more wouldn't necessarily go to her. She was still living with her parents.
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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?
Source? I know a few people who tried but did not become addicted, but i thought of them as more of an exception.
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well overall health of some area can't be that great if you have high infant mortality
They're likely correlated. Might be interesting to look at the outliers (places with low child mortality and low life expectancy after 5 and places with high child mortality and high life expectancy after 5)
I would naively say (and this is why I made that point about having two different numbers) that life expectancy after in later years is also influenced by Violence, Wars and Addiction whereas infant mortality might be more influenced by health conditions, sanitisation, presence of germs and so on...
Regardless, in an article, saying that the life expectancy is 39 years old will make people think that people die at an extremely young age when often it's mostly due to infant/child mortality. Which is why separating it would make things clearer.
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How hard was it for you to quit? Did you go to rehab?
I quit my job as a developer (because I knew I would get fired if I kept my lifestyle the same), broke the lease on my apartment and moved to my parents house for a month and got a doctor to give me suboxone. Am I a lot happier person now? For sure l. But I’m still addicted to opiates. Really the only difference is that now my opiates cost $100/month instead of $6000/month. If I could have gotten heroin for the same…
You say you are happier now, so why do you think you would feel better on heroin?
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Mods please ban this user. Textbook anti Semitism.
Just a suggestion, what seems to work best here is to simply flag the comment and move on. No need to post a reply asking the mods to ban the user and explain why. As you can see (if you have 'showdead' enabled), the offending comment is already flagged and dead after only 15 minutes. The mods do pay attention to these flags and will take it from there.
I think the limitations of the mobile app I use for Hackernews hindered me here. I do remember looking for a report/flag option.
Re: In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’
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I quit my job as a developer (because I knew I would get fired if I kept my lifestyle the same), broke the lease on my apartment and moved to my parents house for a month and got a doctor to give me suboxone. Am I a lot happier person now? For sure l. But I’m still addicted to opiates. Really the only difference is that now my opiates cost $100/month instead of $6000/month. If I could have gotten heroin for the same…
You say you are happier now, so why do you think you would feel better on heroin?
Because not being able to sleep at night because you don’t know whether to pay your rent or get enough heroin for two weeks is stressful. It’s not about the drug, it’s about the cost.