The OP has posted in the past that he is on methadone maintenance therapy for opiate addiction.
Opiate addicts who take methadone for maintenance therapy and who also take other opiates concurrently to treat chronic pain generally don’t have good outcomes with their methadone maintenance, opiate addiction, or their chronic pain.
My point being that opioids do not create resistant strains of bacteria. I thought I was clear that I support laws that protect society at large.
Maintenance? Okay, Doc, yer the Pro From Dover here when it comes to junkies scamming the system. Does that mean they aren’t weaning him, just keeping him doped up enough (forever) he’s not robbing Vinyl Turnip’s favorite liquor store?
Not to mention his many threads about problems with his 'scrips.
I don’t oppose all regulation. Only that which impedes a peaceful honest person from pursuing his own happiness in his own way.
You cannot always have one without the other. Sorry.
Are you apologizing for making a gratuitous assertion? 
(Which, by the way really doesn’t make sense — you cannot have regulation that impedes peaceful honest people from pursuing their own happiness their own way without having peaceful honest people who pursue their own happiness in their own way?)
No. You cannot always have regulation without having some which impedes peaceful, honest people from pursuing happiness in the their own way.
But you knew that’s what I meant.
I am a peaceful honest person and you know what impedes me from pursuing my own happiness in my own way? Having to pay the medical bills for drug-addcited morons.
As long as I am forced to pay for their medical bills, I’ll have a say in what drugs they get to take.
Makes more sense, but still completely gratuitous. By regulating initial force and deception, I can allow peaceful honest people to pursue their own happiness in their own way. By definition, they do not run afoul of such regulation.
I completely agree. That’s why our regulations suck. I mean hell, if you’re paying for my mistakes, why should I try to do things right?
Well, sure. As long as you’ve been conscripted, you may as well shoot somebody.
I live next door to you. It makes me happy to play my electric guitar (badly) through the night until the Sun comes up, with the amp cranked up to 11. Unfortunately for you, since this involves neither force nor deception, there’s nothing you can do about this.
But it IS force, which is why SWAT teams use it to besiege suspects. A fist or club or gun is not the only thing that can impair a person’s well-being.
Don’t we have an obligation at some point to keep people from unknowingly killing themselves in the persuit of self happiness? Drug interations are serious and complicated issues requiring a lot of education which far exceeds that of the common person.
That’s not true as stated. Alcohol is not necessarily less addictive than opiates.
Fortunately, the rate of people who become addicted after being treated with pain medication is extraordinarily low. On the order of 1/3000.
Not to mention the fact that it’s just stupid, because the methadone is going to keep the other opiates from doing anything unless you take a huge amount that no doctor is going to keep prescribing.
Yeah, that’s what maintenance is. The existence of methadone maintenance is good evidence for the argument that opiate addiction in and of itself doesn’t do much, if any, harm. (Constipation can be pretty unpleasant, though.)
I suspect your definition of “force” is broad enough to include nearly anything, then. Which is going to cause a whole new set of problems. So, how do you define what constitutes force, exactly?
No, you weren’t clear-you were bitching about a nanny state, because I asked ladyfoxfyre a simple question. Get over yourself.
Who gets to make the determination of just who is a “peaceful honest person?” You? Me? Society?
I would disagree. Methadone is extremely long-acting, and does not provide anywhere near the euphoric rush of other opiates as morphine, heroin, or oxycodone. Those are short-acting drugs which give a rapid euphoria followed by a nasty crash, which often inspires desperate action such as assault and theft, to obtain more.
Maintaining a person on methadone generally prevents the other opiates from having their euphoric ‘kick’ take place, if they are consumed with the methadone on board.
Unfortunately, many addicts try to override the methadone’s blocking effects, and end up looking quite silly, or dead, or both, when they OD on ground-up oxycontin or other opiates trying to reach that magic buzz.
gotta run, din-din is served.