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This one is going to ruffle a lot of feathers. From page 31 of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book: We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by still worse…
Article Link A take on Faust that has the titular character selling his soul to heroin rather than the Devil as a 21st century temptation. Whether intentional or not, this evokes the description of Faust as being “addicted” in The English Faust Book published in 1592, when “addict” was a newer term referring to the paradoxical choice of giving up one’s choice continually to something else, like…
I love data, but I am highly skeptical of centralized databases of any kind. I don’t like it when groups of people make lists of other people they want to monitor. I don’t like it when private corporations do it, I don’t like it when rogue militias do it, I don’t like it when state agencies do it. Yet, it’s in the nature of institutions and systems that they only exist insofar as they can draw…
Article Link “Seattle, like a striking number of other liberal American cities, has embraced a radical form of “harm reduction,” which is more a philosophy about treating addiction than a scientific approach to it.” No. This is false. Harm reduction is absolutely an evidence-backed scientific paradigm towards, as the name says, reducing the harms caused by substance use. There is nothing about…
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Article Link A take on Faust that has the titular character selling his soul to heroin rather than the Devil as a 21st century temptation. Whether intentional or not, this evokes the description of Faust as being “addicted” in The English Faust Book published in 1592, when “addict” was a newer term referring to the paradoxical choice of giving up one’s choice continually to something else, like…
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I love data, but I am highly skeptical of centralized databases of any kind. I don’t like it when groups of people make lists of other people they want to monitor. I don’t like it when private corporations do it, I don’t like it when rogue militias do it, I don’t like it when state agencies do it. Yet, it’s in the nature of institutions and systems that they only exist insofar as they can draw…
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Article Link “Seattle, like a striking number of other liberal American cities, has embraced a radical form of “harm reduction,” which is more a philosophy about treating addiction than a scientific approach to it.” No. This is false. Harm reduction is absolutely an evidence-backed scientific paradigm towards, as the name says, reducing the harms caused by substance use. There is nothing about…