Malcolm Blackmore wrote: > > > > The medical use of _prescription_ > > drugs has nothing to do with a "free market" of leisure drugs. As a > > patient who needs the medically prescribed drug in the prescribed > > amount, > > Ah, the point is I am effectively on a "on demand" basis ... quite > enough to get seriously hooked on heavy duty stuff.
And how many patients (who don't reside in hospitals anyway) have such generous prescriptions? A few in a million? And even these could be monitored pretty easily against becoming drug dealers... > My point is that most people won't become addicted compulsively, either. > I think there is a set amount of "addictive personalities" in a > population and they will transfer to whatever is most effective and > easily available. My surmise is that opiates are a lot less damaging > than alcohol, which is easily available but not as effective. Opiates for non-medical use are simply unnecessary, and who knows in advance who will get addicted and who (very few) won't? > High % incidences of addiction is more a social > phenomenon (not having anything useful to do and no place to do it which > garners decent respect from socialised others) than a physical one, > apart from the poor addictive personalities who will stone out on > anything they can get their mitts on - always have and always will. A good preventive program would take care of that too. > I suppose we could withdraw the "social licence to use drugs" from such > type, with freedom for everyone else who can demonstrate a degree of > social responsibility. May be better but way too fuzzy and unpredictable to check and enforce. And what for -- just so people who don't need it medically will misuse drugs? > I might add that levels of addiction are quite high in stressful but > very high paying areas like the City. But it doesn't necessarily cause a > problem if the users are on heroin. Smack I'm not too sure about - it > certainly detaches one from a social conscience and makes for rash > decisions. > > But are psychosuits already sufficiently psychotic that this makes much > difference? Perhaps the opiates dulls some of the psychopathy of some of > them... Drugs like cocaine (widely used by "psychosuits") clearly worsen their sociopathology, by ruining the brain regions responsible for empathy. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
