Posted by tessellated on March 1, 2006, at 12:10:31
In reply to addendum to my post, posted by Chairman_MAO on March 1, 2006, at 10:40:01
I hate playing conspiracy theory guy all the time.
But most opiod patents have been expired for a long long time.
Ergo there is little profit to be had there, and therefore little motivation to trump up their benefits off lable..> Aristotle held that physical and psychological pain are one and the same. The hard scientific evidence seems to corroborate this. So why are some drugs only OK to use for physical pain and others for emotional pain? Why does the supposed etiology matter if the end result is pain?
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> NOTE: I do agree that using drugs to kill pain can be destructive. What I'm uncertain about is how this justifies the prohibition of what is often the most effective medications. If SSRIs work for you, I say go ahead and use one if you like it. I haven't met too many people who like being sexually anesthetiszed, though.
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