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A little less than one year ago I first wrote about Oregon's experiment with the decriminalization of street drugs, including meth, cocaine, and heroin� www.dailykos.com/... �It had been many ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
 150 comments
on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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The Washington Post published an article "As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice" (the paywall should be down). In the article, the paper explores yet another example of an American corporation profiting from the harm they...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 01:42 PM PDT
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It’s 8:30 am this Wednesday morning, and the power just came back on. It’s raining, because of course it is. We live here in Oak Ridge, Tn, one of the three homes of the Manhattan Project, along with Los Alamos New Mexico and Hanford, Washington. I...
by bisleybum
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 06:16 AM PST
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www.google.com/... After my brother’s death, I hesitated to write anything. I had become dependent on our 40 years of back and forth correspondence, me using computer technology to do what he did so very well, sitting at his old manual Remington with...
by Ben Kalom
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 04:35 AM PST
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Have you heard of Nitazine? It is the new kid on the illegal drug block. And a wall is not going to stop it. Here is the story. Once upon a time … On January 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment kicked in. The US went dry. And Americans quit drinking. In 1971,...
by TheCriticalMind
54 comments
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 03:18 PM PST
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Breath Work I have been on dKos for twelve years. My user name, bisleybum, harks back some twenty-five years to when I collected and sometimes customized target shooting pistols. Bisley is a customized grip developed across the pond at the turn of the...
by bisleybum
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 09:35 PM PDT
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We just gotta face it. We all became addicted to doom scrolling/click bait articles to survive 8 years of trump. Heck, probably a few new alcoholics and other addictions. How else could we survive this. His election and Hillary’s acceptance was at best...
by godsOK
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on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 09:09 AM PDT
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Been reading Daily Kos on and off since the Bush Era, but this would be my first ever actual diary post! I’m on on the neurodivergent spectrum, and haven’t been able to get an adequate mileage of answering a thought that came to mind. This has driven...
by Angry Pidgeon
68 comments
on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 07:01 AM PDT
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West Virginia has settled with Kroger for $68 million over its role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers into the U.S. state that has lost more lives to opioid overdoses per ...
by Associated Press
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on Fri May 05, 2023 at 04:30 AM PDT
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CW: mention of suicidal thoughts, mental illness, violence, sexual assault, and drug addiction.
Last week I said that something (really, really) not-good had happened. I was amazed and touched by ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
53 comments
on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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History is part of an unchangeable timeline. What is done, is done. Who we once were can serve as a sentinel and warn us of places where we have failed as living things, or provide us with insight on our successes. History is important, and while it is...
by Ben Kalom
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on Sat Mar 18, 2023 at 08:12 AM PDT
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When I first learned (about a year after the fact) that Oregon had decriminalized possession of less than two grams of methamphetamine my first thought was,� if he'd stayed in Oregon when the rest ...
by A Pagan in Arizona
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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People who believe a border wall is what America needs to stop the scourge of addiction are either deluded, making money off it, or terminally sadistic. The desire of an addict to do drugs is ...
by TheCriticalMind
19 comments
on Sat Jan 07, 2023 at 04:15 PM PST
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This Zoom event comes from Energy (and Other) Events Monthly (http://hubevents.blogspot.com). I attended and am sharing my notes. 12/9/22 Energy as a Weapon of War: Russia, Ukraine, and Europe in Challenging Times with Margarita M Balmaceda, Professor...
by gmoke
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on Sat Dec 17, 2022 at 08:08 PM PST
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Lani Watson’s The Right To Know Lani Watson, a research fellow at Oxford in both Theology and Philosophy, wrote an important book last year called The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them. After learning about it in a recent article, I...
by CorpFlunky
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on Sat Dec 03, 2022 at 01:51 PM PST
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I had an appointment today with my counselor and I was talking about my fears for the country slowly sinking into fascism, and how out of control and anxious about it all I feel. She definitely sympathized with me and agreed that the news for the...
by rexymeteorite
90 comments
on Thu Nov 03, 2022 at 02:40 PM PDT
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The opioid epidemic has been labeled as the worst drug crisis in United States history. The death toll has surpassed both car accidents and gun violence. While the crisis is affecting all demographics, it has had a devastating effect on rural...
by Mark Rose The Intolerant Lefty
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on Tue Oct 18, 2022 at 04:50 PM PDT
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On Monday, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio faced off against lowest common denominator Republican contender J.D. Vance in a debate. The debate between the two Senate candidates ranged from immigration to public health issues of addiction. A couple of days ago,...
by Walter Einenkel
108 comments
on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 05:28 PM PDT
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In the early 2000s, a new drug, Xylazine , cropped up in Puerto Rico among illegal drug users. The locals called it “anestesia de caballo” or “horse anesthetic.” The nickname was not 100% ...
by TheCriticalMind
140 comments
on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 03:48 PM PDT
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Early this month, the National Union of Healthcare workers issued a release of their over 2,000 KP Northern California members’ planing to launch an open-ended strike starting August 15, if the year of negotiations had by then produced no adequate...
by mettle fatigue
17 comments
on Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 06:12 AM PDT
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