Posted by jojo on July 17, 2001, at 11:23:48
In reply to Re: Methadone » Elizabeth, posted by NikkiT2 on May 13, 2001, at 16:01:26
"Yet again, i (sic) will state, by medical LAW Effexor is NOT addictive, the withdrawal symptoms are your seratonin levels re-balancing bacially (sic)."
"By medical law??? In the USA, we don't have "medical laws". We have medical texts and research papers and monographs discussing medical findings
(experience) and manufacturer's recommendations, but FDA rulings and laws passed by Congress and signed by the President are legal documents, and follow the Rule of Humpty Dumpty rather than those of science or medicine. The rule, of course, is 'When I use a word, it means exactly what I choose it to mean, no more and no less'. Hence, Congress may determine that marijuana is a narcotic and has no medical use. Never the less, in most people marijuana does not induce narcosis, and millions of people have found that it does have medical uses. Congress is free to define a word in any way it chooses. It can define the Earth as the center of the universe, but that DON'T make it so.
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