Re: Side effects: the drug conspiracy

From: Tiny Human Ferret (ixnayamspay_klaatu_at_earthops.net)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:11:35 -0400

Fabrizio J. Bonsignore wrote:
> Without pretending a full categorization of drugs, another group would
> be composed of those drugs that make people active. Cocaine,
> metamphetamines, steroids and other psychoactives. These group of
> drugs is perhaps the most dangerous, both by their known effects on
> the individual's body as by their impact on the metabolism. This is
> also a group of drugs that can have real externalities in their
> consume (effects on other people's well being caused by the fact of
> their use, mostly negative). They are known to make individuals
> aggressive and intolerant and instead of having a refractory period
> have instead an effect of increased tolerance, that makes for an
> increasing consumption even if they don't create compulsion
> (compulsion in this case may be a aprt of the increased tolerance).
> They also have an obvious depressive effect on the individual; the
> fact that the metabolism is accelerated means that sooner or later the
> body will need "recharging". This group of drugs doesn't need "side
> effects", as their very effect is almost certain to propduce permanent
> effects in an individual's life. It is well known the fact of nose
> bleeding and heart attacks in users...

The word you want to research is "tweekers" or "tweakers".

Meow. 

-- 
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
                   --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

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