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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (76915)4/5/2000 5:41:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I'd appreciate citations or URLs so I can check these same references.
I do want to distinguish between medicinal and recreational use of opiates, from cough syrup on up to methadone (which is even stouter than heroin). Medicinal use to treat pain or severe cough is unlikely to lead to physical dependence. But regular use for escapist purposes is very likely to lead to addiction. (A week is probably not too dangerous. A month is a real crapshoot. Two months and physical dependence is pretty much assured, IF drug doses were kept at the reward level.) (And the stoning or reward level is usually higher than the medicinal level except for severe pain. And severe pain has a most wondrous way of deleting the euphoriant properties of opiates.)
This distinction between relief and pleasure dosing is usually obscured by interested parties, i.e. anyone having to do with Gov't regulatory agencies.
On the one hand I cannot recommend snorting or shooting smack or its synthetic congeners as a way to have a good time.
On the other hand I think it is unfair and really rather puritanical to hold up the universally-described and pathetic examples of impoverished end-stage junkies as examples of the entire heroin (and by extension all opioid) user community.
And then to extend this very effective image of moral horror onto the remaining Schedule 1 and 2 drugs. The level of disinformation about the psychedelics is absolutely astounding. I don't ever want to trivialize mushrooms, LSD or the other major psychedelics. They will rock your world; no doubt about it. But the issues surrounding their use are not comparable to the issues around the depressants, ranging from beer to the needle.
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