Re: New Ways to Loosen Addiction's Grip -- NYTimes

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:21:03 -0500

David James Polewka wrote:
>
> New Ways to Loosen Addiction's Grip
> By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
>
> Published: August 3, 2004
>
> When Aaron, a 33-year-old writer from New York, decided to get help for
> his five-year addiction to painkillers, there was really only one
> option.

Suicide. But the Safety Net put his dirty hand into my wallet.

[snip]

> Then, a year and a half ago, a quiet scientific advance gave Aaron - and
> 60,000 other Americans - a chance to break their dependence on drugs
> without shame.

60,000? HA HA HA. More like 60 million *serious* addicts, at
least, git. You'd be hard pressed to find anybody, ANYBODY, who
could get through the day without a pill, caffein, nicotine,
ethanol, or a hit of boo. If you have to have it, you are an
addict.

I was all screwed up on drugs.
Then I found Christ!
Now, I'm all screwed up on Christ.
But it's OK...
I'm taking drugs for it.
 
> Buprenorphine, made by Reckitt Benckiser and sold under the brand name
> Suboxone, became the first prescription medication for people addicted
> to heroin or painkillers.

Goodie! He is off harmless but addictive opioids and now
addicted to very much not harmless buprenorphine. It's an
expensive prescription drug, so it's OK. Money flows through
social compassion, extorted from the productive to purchase
parasites' votes with major stops in pushers' (er, government's,
health insurers', doctors', and drug manufacturers') pockets.
  
> The small orange tablet is available by prescription at any neighborhood
> pharmacy.
[snip]

Just like my neighborhood pushers. It's the old dope peddler,
spreading joy wherever he goes.

http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/dopepedd.htm

> Between 180,000 and 200,000 Americans are on methadone, said Dr. David
> M. McDowell, director of a program at Columbia University that helps
> people make the transition from methadone to buprenorphine, then refers
> them to other doctors for private care.
[snip]

But only 60,000 Americans are addicted, git. Read your own post
early on.
 
> "The most stigmatized thing in this world is methadone," said Dr. Edwin
> A. Salsitz, director of Beth Israel Medical Center's methadone program
> in New York.

Try being Black or having leprosy.

> "Buprenorphine is the most important advance certainly in heroin and
> opiate treatment if not all addiction treatments in the last 30 years,"
> said Dr. Alan I. Leshner, a former director of the National Institutes
> of Drug Abuse.
[snip]

When he says "important," did he misspell "profitable?"
 
> Doctors in the United States wrote 80,000 prescriptions for
> buprenorphine in 2003, a number that is expected to soar in the coming
> years.

Definitely "profitable." Right out of the publick exchequer.
Compassion! Advocacy! Social engineering! THE SAFETY NET! The
only folks who won't qualify for any of this obscene largess are
those who are stuck with the tab.
 
> Dr. Chadd A. Herrmann, a psychiatrist in Manhattan, said he has received
> about 20 telephone calls in the last three weeks from people looking for
> buprenorphine.
[snip]

No doubt. There is a new girl in town, and she is putting out
for free.

> In New York, doctors who want to
> prescribe buprenorphine are required to take an eight-hour training
> course and then receive approval from the state.
[snip]

One presumes that includes lunch and an open bar afterward. Do
they get a nice laser-printed certificate? "Dr. Feelgood has
forked over a kilobuck to buy into the privilege of pushing
buprenorphine for insurance reimbursement."
 
> Dr. Herrmann, whose practice is on Fifth Avenue,

Uncle Al can't compete. No matter how extreme and freakish his
extrapolations, reality and corruption always beat him to the
goal.

> Vaccines, some researchers believe, may provide answers to these
> problems.
[snip]

Hey stupid, a tiny protein with a molecular weight of 40,000
going after cocaine with a molecular weight of 303.36 is
ludicrous. Snort a gram of coke and need 132 grams of antibody
to grab it? HA HA HA. Snort two grams.
 
Buncha crap. Addiction is intrinsic to the person. Everybody
has at least one sweet spot. Either you have the personal
strength to control it or you succumb. No drug or counseling
(ooooh... therapy, with a the|rapist) will change that. Think of
it as evolution in action. The weak deserve to die. 

--
Uncle Al
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