• percent@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    This image implies that someone who would steal drugs from patients would not also purchase drugs from other people? Why not both?

    I’ve known quite a few addicts, and I don’t think any of them are as selective as this image describes.

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        7 days ago

        Some say his love for couches was strong, some say his lust for couches was strong, the only thing that is certain is he’s fucked a sofa or two.

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    7 days ago

    “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering [I just made up and is not the reality] of the American people [because, again, – and I cannot stress this enough – I created it and it did not actually happen], then that’s what I’m going to do.”

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    7 days ago

    James Donald Bowman is a sad excuse for a human being. I will always remind people of his real name he got from his deadbeat father and the mother he’s slandering here. Just to cuck for another asshole named Donald.

    Join me in deadnaming him!

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    He grew up in Middletown, Ohio. Even if she hadn’t been stealing drugs from patients, I know the drug scene there well enough to know plenty of dealers are white. But also the opiate epidemic in the rust belt wasn’t some cartel thing, it’s simple: the jobs left, nobody had any hope left, and suddenly that injury you got from doing manual labor for years wound up with this new painkiller the doctor was told isn’t addictive.

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    7 days ago

    To be fair, I suspect he’s talking about the heroin after she was fired from her nursing job for stealing drugs.

    But her addiction is what almost killed her. The (dubious) nationality of the dealers is irrelevant.

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        7 days ago

        Because with morons we are dealing with if they can find one flaw they won’t believe any part of a logically laid out argument.

        JD Vance is popular because to stupid insecure men he seems like at the very least an awkward social person, yet they think in a debate he is a “bulldog” that goes after the “facts”.

        TLDR: they suck so bad they don’t even know they suck and why

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    6 days ago

    I’m just saying. She could have totally stole them from Mexicans.

    Which would technically not be a lie.

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    7 days ago

    If she was that desperate, odds are good she sucked a few dicks for drugs, too. Surely not news to him, those trailer walls are thin.

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    7 days ago

    if your mom is stealing medication, which it sounds like from a hospital and using it on herself, with no proper diagnosis/condition, its ON HER if she almost dies from it.

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    6 days ago

    FYI, fentanyl is used in US hospitals as the cheapest opiate. Excess OD deaths from fentanyl tend are only ever caused by it being “accidentally present” in another drug. Paying the Taliban to grow opium for US export (they can still prevent local sales) could be a viable path to affordable US healthcare without fentanyl. Much US supply of fentanyl is stolen from legal hospital supplies.

    If there was a real national emergency for fentanyl from Canada, a war on hospitals providing 100x the fentanyl that is seized on Canadian border to tax them an extra 25% is going to get them back to using morphine/oxy whatever that costs.

    • gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Fentanyl is not the cheapest opiate in US hospitals, and is not used as a substitute for morphine or oxycodone. It’s primarily used for anesthesia, where oxycodone/hydrocodone/morphine/hydromorphone are used in the units as pain killers taken orally. Injectable hydromorphone is cheaper and more commonly used for acute pain than fentanyl.

      Source: work in a hospital pharmacy

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        Ok thank you. I’ve known patients who lived for a month receiving constant fentanyl that month.

        Opiates for anasthesia? surprising. What previous “gas”/process did it replace?

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          It’s part of general anesthesia, along with other drugs such as midazolam, propofol, ketamine, etomidate, etc. It augments anesthesia gases such as sevoflurane/desflurane/isoflurane, though we’re getting outside my realm of expertise; I’m not an anesthesiologist so I can’t specify why a certain combination of drugs might be used vs another.

  • Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    Remember when Republicans got mad at politicians lying to them? “Read my lips, no new taxes”

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    7 days ago

    Let’s explore this.

    If we agree to entertain his lie for a moment, and the further implication that the people supposedly supplying her with drugs were responsible for her OD, doesn’t that same logic make gun dealers responsible for shootings?

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      No, because drug dealing in this context is hurting someone to exploit them for profit while gun dealers are performing an important service to their communities. You wouldn’t consider a grocery store responsible for someone’s obesity because they sold flour.

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          Not quite in that form, but targeting restrictions on ammunition moreso than the guns themselves is part of my view on that issue. The country is full of guns already, they last practically forever with maintenance, and at the end of the day they’re basically just a sturdy tube with some hardware to set the bullet off, and as such it would be difficult to stop illicit manufacturing (3d printed guns and zip guns come to mind). Bullets are at least consumable, require explosive chemicals to make and a gun won’t fire without them. If you make it difficult to acquire large amounts at once, then it doesn’t matter as much if a gun is modified to be fully automatic either.

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            That’s fair, it’ll also mean that the equivalent of ghost guns will be a sight to see given that making your own smokeless powder is very difficult but making your own black powder is just a pain in the ass (the only component that’s easy to restrict can be extracted from human biological waste). And as far as I’m concerned, if you want to make black powder cartridges so much you’re willing to process urea into saltpetre go ahead. You aren’t getting a modern mass shooting like that

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          7 days ago

          Or the military personnel shot by misfiring pistols when they drop them.

          And surely someone in history has been killed by knocking over a rack of guns and being clobbered.

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                7 days ago

                If we consider the gun ‘attached’ to the handler, would that put the blame back on the person? Or maybe we ought to consider the handler as part of the gun itself.

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                  Neither the gun alone nor the person alone would have killed. Therefore, the dangerous thing is the COMBINATION of gun + person. In conclusion, we shouldn’t ban guns, just make it illegal for people to interact with them in any way.

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      Let’s not bother, not only do they don’t care about hypocrisy, double speak is actually their superpower