You know the irony of the 'burden of prevention' to the states, is that 'HIV' is already doing a pretty good job of preventing itself given its flat growth. I honestly don't think most people don't understand that you can't have an 'epidemic' with a flat growth curve. At best you call that endemic.
Regarding the poppers thing, I noticed on Twitter an upswing in guys freaking out over 'the government taking away our poppers'. I made a comment on one guy's post and he blocked me. Here's his histrionic post: "The FDA raiding Double Scorpio is absolutely a sign of rising fascism and the continuation of attempts to re-criminalize gay sex and queer sexuality in addition to further criminalizing and stigmatizing people living with HIV."
He followed up with this post: "Double Scorpio are our neighbors here in Austin and they do a lot to support the LGBTQ+ community here. I hope they’re able to at least reopen their apparel and home fragrance lines to continue to stay in business. Fascism is the enemy of joy and pleasure."
That just blows my mind that guys like this think poppers producers are supporting the gay community. Just wow. I posted that poppers are potent oxidizing agents that cause methemoglobinemia. He blocked me.
I will be un-subscribing at this point. Re: your words from above: "Also, as a libertarian that thinks you should be able to buy whatever drugs you want without a prescription, I’m of two minds of this. Do I think poppers should be banned? No, because there’s not a lot I’d be happy with a federal ban on. Unrestricted speech regarding their effects would be a good start."
Recently, I recall it was psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Breggin said that 80% of American adults are on a psychotropic drug. Modern such drugs are documented to cause the person "to have an unusual reliance on figures of authority." Right Dr. Fauci? In the year 2000, a study of MEDCO's Pharmaceutical insurance claim processing data, revealed that 30% of adult women and 15% of adult men were "taking a drug for mental health (Prozac was most popular at that time." 25 years later it's 80% per Breggin. Drugs haven't improved anything but made it much worse. And how did American health fare in those years? How many school massacres occurred by people on drugs.
I know someone who killed himself on Prozac. He was the last person that would end his life.
I know of people who got divorced because one was on such a drug. I know a child, now a teenager, who was considered a problem child in school - but no acknowledgement then of how his behavior was textbook characteristic of SSRI/SNRI drugs he was forced to take. That young adult now is quite messed up. Dysfunctional. A social recluse by need for him. I talked to a female MD that I knew back then who was my loved one's doctor and she said "These drugs are anesthesia for the soul" and she said 'You know much more about these drugs than I do and I'm a physician." She also honestly stated: "When they came out we just started (unknowingly) prescribing. We were handing these drugs out like they were water."
I have been violently assaulted twice by people on these drugs. Not surprising since I knew in 2006 that OJ Simpson was on Prozac when he butchered his wife and that innocent young man. How do I know this? In 2006 (June?) the NY Post published an article "of an interview with a best friend of OJ Simpson." Interestingly/noticably it was on the last page. Years later I tried to find it on their electronic archives and couldn't find it. That article said that HE said "that OJ had doubled-up on his Prozac dosage not long before he committed those murders." And what was OJ's book titled: "IF I did it" That's correct. Technically, bio-chemically, he wasn't at the seen of the crime. ONly a man referred to as "Prozac OJ" was there.
I could go on and on. Change the feelings of a person with drugs and that changes their reality and that of others. Until early 2021, since 1990, the FDA's website list of "side effects" (i.e., dosage dependent effects) BEGAN WITH: "murder, suicide....." (unchanged for 30 years). Biden didn't want people to know. Did you hear the Prozac-OJ story? They didn't want you to know. They blamed OJ.
If Breggin is correct we might right now have 80% of adults who are potential OJ's OR might hang themselves OR not raise their children well OR lose their job from poor performance (I had several of them for years - they didn't give a shxt about anything - from drugs that lower anxiety "including healthy anxiety which governs good judgment.... and an inability to foresee the consequences of their actions." Like OJ.
IN early 1990's a clinical psychologist, Dr. Ann Blake Tracy in Utah, noticed two things only a couple years after Prozac's release. That the divorce rate in UTah, a state that is primarily Mormon and against divorce, "sky-rocketed". Not surprising Prozac was soon after referred to as "The divorce pill". I know a lot about that. It's a destroyer of families and thus the harmful impact on children's live. I know a lot about that.
I am the only person I've ever known or heard about that VOLUNTARILY placed himself in clinical psychotherapy - both individual and group sessions - and stuck it out for 4 years (when I had to move to another state). I was ages 28 to 32 then. I did this because I learned from others that they benefited and "anyone would benefit". They were 5 people who I was helping analyze data for their PhD thesis - in "clinical psychology" Our state mandated by law that every future psychologist had to go through the process. To better understand their view of reality or not. A trial of a few sessions I attended proved this out and I continued for four years - 2 1hr individual sessions per week and 2 90 minute group sessions per week. Voluntarily in an attempt to "be a better person."
The number one rule in group therapy then (1980) is that NO ONE can be under the influence of ANY drug OR alcohol or marijuana or cigarettes while in group therapy. Because those things distort their perception of reality itself. The psycho-pathology/damage that people experience in their lives, especially childhood, distorts their reality nearly all of the time. And those influences above only make it worse. That's why the objective of psychotherapy is to learn the absolute truth about oneself. As the world renowned psychiatrist, Dr. M. Scott Peck said long ago "At the root of all mental illness IS the denial of the truth." Thus "the road less traveled" in life is one dedicated to the pursuit of the truth in all matters."
There is no truth while on drugs. A departure from truth thus a denial.
We all need to strive to find a better place in this life. Martin Luther King said it best for me: "At the end of the day, the highest form of maturity is vigorous self examination." There is no reality or maturity or vigorous self examination while on drugs. Just ask OJ Simpson.
Mullis said if you ever want to get rid of AIDS, get rid of AIDS research.
You know the irony of the 'burden of prevention' to the states, is that 'HIV' is already doing a pretty good job of preventing itself given its flat growth. I honestly don't think most people don't understand that you can't have an 'epidemic' with a flat growth curve. At best you call that endemic.
Regarding the poppers thing, I noticed on Twitter an upswing in guys freaking out over 'the government taking away our poppers'. I made a comment on one guy's post and he blocked me. Here's his histrionic post: "The FDA raiding Double Scorpio is absolutely a sign of rising fascism and the continuation of attempts to re-criminalize gay sex and queer sexuality in addition to further criminalizing and stigmatizing people living with HIV."
He followed up with this post: "Double Scorpio are our neighbors here in Austin and they do a lot to support the LGBTQ+ community here. I hope they’re able to at least reopen their apparel and home fragrance lines to continue to stay in business. Fascism is the enemy of joy and pleasure."
That just blows my mind that guys like this think poppers producers are supporting the gay community. Just wow. I posted that poppers are potent oxidizing agents that cause methemoglobinemia. He blocked me.
I will be un-subscribing at this point. Re: your words from above: "Also, as a libertarian that thinks you should be able to buy whatever drugs you want without a prescription, I’m of two minds of this. Do I think poppers should be banned? No, because there’s not a lot I’d be happy with a federal ban on. Unrestricted speech regarding their effects would be a good start."
Recently, I recall it was psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Breggin said that 80% of American adults are on a psychotropic drug. Modern such drugs are documented to cause the person "to have an unusual reliance on figures of authority." Right Dr. Fauci? In the year 2000, a study of MEDCO's Pharmaceutical insurance claim processing data, revealed that 30% of adult women and 15% of adult men were "taking a drug for mental health (Prozac was most popular at that time." 25 years later it's 80% per Breggin. Drugs haven't improved anything but made it much worse. And how did American health fare in those years? How many school massacres occurred by people on drugs.
I know someone who killed himself on Prozac. He was the last person that would end his life.
I know of people who got divorced because one was on such a drug. I know a child, now a teenager, who was considered a problem child in school - but no acknowledgement then of how his behavior was textbook characteristic of SSRI/SNRI drugs he was forced to take. That young adult now is quite messed up. Dysfunctional. A social recluse by need for him. I talked to a female MD that I knew back then who was my loved one's doctor and she said "These drugs are anesthesia for the soul" and she said 'You know much more about these drugs than I do and I'm a physician." She also honestly stated: "When they came out we just started (unknowingly) prescribing. We were handing these drugs out like they were water."
I have been violently assaulted twice by people on these drugs. Not surprising since I knew in 2006 that OJ Simpson was on Prozac when he butchered his wife and that innocent young man. How do I know this? In 2006 (June?) the NY Post published an article "of an interview with a best friend of OJ Simpson." Interestingly/noticably it was on the last page. Years later I tried to find it on their electronic archives and couldn't find it. That article said that HE said "that OJ had doubled-up on his Prozac dosage not long before he committed those murders." And what was OJ's book titled: "IF I did it" That's correct. Technically, bio-chemically, he wasn't at the seen of the crime. ONly a man referred to as "Prozac OJ" was there.
I could go on and on. Change the feelings of a person with drugs and that changes their reality and that of others. Until early 2021, since 1990, the FDA's website list of "side effects" (i.e., dosage dependent effects) BEGAN WITH: "murder, suicide....." (unchanged for 30 years). Biden didn't want people to know. Did you hear the Prozac-OJ story? They didn't want you to know. They blamed OJ.
If Breggin is correct we might right now have 80% of adults who are potential OJ's OR might hang themselves OR not raise their children well OR lose their job from poor performance (I had several of them for years - they didn't give a shxt about anything - from drugs that lower anxiety "including healthy anxiety which governs good judgment.... and an inability to foresee the consequences of their actions." Like OJ.
IN early 1990's a clinical psychologist, Dr. Ann Blake Tracy in Utah, noticed two things only a couple years after Prozac's release. That the divorce rate in UTah, a state that is primarily Mormon and against divorce, "sky-rocketed". Not surprising Prozac was soon after referred to as "The divorce pill". I know a lot about that. It's a destroyer of families and thus the harmful impact on children's live. I know a lot about that.
I am the only person I've ever known or heard about that VOLUNTARILY placed himself in clinical psychotherapy - both individual and group sessions - and stuck it out for 4 years (when I had to move to another state). I was ages 28 to 32 then. I did this because I learned from others that they benefited and "anyone would benefit". They were 5 people who I was helping analyze data for their PhD thesis - in "clinical psychology" Our state mandated by law that every future psychologist had to go through the process. To better understand their view of reality or not. A trial of a few sessions I attended proved this out and I continued for four years - 2 1hr individual sessions per week and 2 90 minute group sessions per week. Voluntarily in an attempt to "be a better person."
The number one rule in group therapy then (1980) is that NO ONE can be under the influence of ANY drug OR alcohol or marijuana or cigarettes while in group therapy. Because those things distort their perception of reality itself. The psycho-pathology/damage that people experience in their lives, especially childhood, distorts their reality nearly all of the time. And those influences above only make it worse. That's why the objective of psychotherapy is to learn the absolute truth about oneself. As the world renowned psychiatrist, Dr. M. Scott Peck said long ago "At the root of all mental illness IS the denial of the truth." Thus "the road less traveled" in life is one dedicated to the pursuit of the truth in all matters."
There is no truth while on drugs. A departure from truth thus a denial.
We all need to strive to find a better place in this life. Martin Luther King said it best for me: "At the end of the day, the highest form of maturity is vigorous self examination." There is no reality or maturity or vigorous self examination while on drugs. Just ask OJ Simpson.
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