Posts by Rich Lock
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Well that's not true. Someone's selling those wrist band things for lots of money, I'm sure you could sell placebo pills for money as long as you didn't cross legislation and call them medicine. "Life enhancement pills" or something with a swanky brand name.
True, but the necessary clarification is on your own post - within a strict regulatory and ethical framework, researching and monetizing the placebo effect causes real headaches (ahaha).
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Cactus Kate has a very good post on this topic
Gotta say, if Cactus Kate is posting this sort of comment:
Farmers do not pay their fair share of tax. It doesn't matter how you spin it.
Then I think we can confidently say that the truthiness of the matter has been decided beyond all doubt.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
sex offender registration that makes Garth McVicar jizz in his pants
The implications for the space-time continuum if that particular Möbius strip of infinitely repeating feedback ever happens are too horrible to contemplate
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
Funny you should say that. The Declaration of Helsinki has been moving medical research toward that very position. The implication being that placebos are not permitted where proven interventions are available....OTOH if it's adopted it's going to make it damned hard to ascertain what does work.
As I understand it, one of the biggest obstacles to researching the placebo effect is that it is difficult to monetize.
Research costs money, which requires funding. Funding for drug tests is usually at least partly provided by Pharma companies, their return on investment coming when the drugs hit the open market.
Nothing to sell if you're giving out placebos, therefore no drug companies lining up to fund your research.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Russell Brown,
I just tagged your house. Looks sweet, bro.
All good. I'll just stick askew's name on the bottom of it...et voila! 10k on the property value.
20k if I bung another backhander to my ex-cop friend to cause a few more of his other pieces to 'go missing'.
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Hard News: Still sounds good, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
my ears hadn't recovered from Kyuss the night before. And that was with earplugs!
Good show, eh? I took my earplugs out at one point, and was shocked at the sheer volume. Must be getting old...
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Hell, I consider anything I post on the internet as 'released into the wild'. So go crazy, you crazy kids, with your twitter and your blogging and your hip hop and whatnot. Use and abuse it how you like.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
Major "WTF?!" moment for me: a junkie repeatedly sticking an empty needle into his vein, compulsively, because he hadn't been able to get on for more than a day.
We should probably start legislating against the placebo effect.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
Other drugs can mesh with a fulltime employment/studying lifestyle but being up all night 3 nights in a row is not consonant with turning up for work on a Monday morning. You won't change this dynamic by making P more accessible, cheaper and decrimalised.
I don't disagree. However, there is some evidence that suggests amphetamine use is sometimes driven by working in an industry which requires long and unsocial hours.
For example, use of amphetamines is supposed to be rife throughout the US meatpacking industry, where the work is physically very difficult, and the wages are insanely low. As a consequence, many workers work back-toback shifts for long stretches of time in order to make ends meet.
See, for example: 'fast food nation', or 'methland'
It's not a coincidence that many of the meatpacking jobs in the US are filled by illegal hispanics, and that the meth trade is also largely controlled by mexican cartels. 'Big Meat' tacitly and sometimes openly encourages this in order to increase profits.
I have also heard that 'Yar Bar' (mis)use in the Thai fishing industry is widespread for the same reasons.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
'Too long, didn't read, still sounds good '
Yeah, 'heads up for music!'