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It's not just that doctors are in bed with big pharma. The patients are too. I guarantee 80%+ of SSRI and amphetamine (adderal) patients consume twice as much mainstream media as the average American. That is where the advertising comes in. The patients are also in bed with big pharma.
Most doctors simply are sick of caring. They have lines of privileged people come to them and bwa wa wa boo hoo hoo about how terrible their feelings are.
The young doctor cares. The young doctor also tries to offer holistic advice, while prescribing the meds. The middle career doctor gets bored, and stops giving the holistic advice, quite aware it will be ignored anyway. The old doctor just cares about his bank account, and prescribes whatever the patient demands.
Because that is just it. The patients demand the drugs. And if the first doctor does not give in, the second will.
Last edited by UWDude; 08-15-2019 at 10:04 PM.
That and the people who go there want a magic pill to fix it, its the same in all types of medicine. They don't want to hear lose some weight go on a diet get some exercise, they want to be given diet pills that are psychoactive. They don't want good medicine, they want the bad medicine.
It's a double edged sword. When someone is an addict and destroying their own life as well as others, attempts to turn them around - while not always successful - are a good thing. I've seen it up close and personal and seen lives saved. I'm not talking someone's GP or internist writing a prescription but treatment facilities that deal with addiction where the combination of therapy (group or individual), 12 step or other intensive programs and medication are the treatment plan. It beats sh/tting on the street in San Francisco and shooting up. Addiction is a road to hell.
I agree, the big thing in SF is that in a lot of places these people would already be in a jail. They wouldn't be getting therapy but they would be off the streets. Thats why we need criminal justice reform that has better rehabilitation for people as well as mental health that doesn't overpersribe pills for things that rehabilitation can help with. We gotta do something otherwise we will just have more people in jail or dead from a plague.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
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It's all about Freedom
Can't blame China. America is chock full of $#@!ty little crybabies. America is probably the breeding ground of the worst people in the world. The curse of opulence.
All those beautiful people, given all opportunity, all education, all nutrients, and what do they do with it?
They cry because of what they don't have. They destroy themselves to feel good. They hate those who will not do any more for them. They reach for luxury, only to burn it down out of boredom.
No, America's drug problem is America's problem.
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
If it is a race to disarm, I want to be the side that disarmed the other side first.
Right now the left is looking to win that race.
Plus, they think guns are dangerous and evil, so we would be doing them a favor.
And in return, women who register republican would not be able to have an abortion.
The difference between men and women is:
The men of the right would take the guns of the men on the left, and then once the left realized how stupid they had been, the men would not give the guns back to them.
The women of the left would gladly take the right to choose from the women of the right, who had used internalized misogyny to vote against their own best interests... ...but when the women of the right came into an abortion clinic, the women of the left would crinkle their brows, and decide to kill the baby for them anyway.
Last edited by UWDude; 08-15-2019 at 10:54 PM.
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
sorry bout the double post, my computer is acting up on me.
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
I forgot what the topic of this thread is and I'm not smoking anything but tobacco.
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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