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Yes, opiates can ruin lives. That is not the trump card you want it to be, sorry.

If anything, the pushback against opiate prescribing has resulted in a lot of dependent patients (and addicted abusers) looking at heroin as a more potent, widely available, cheaper alternative.

opiates have been around a long time for a good reason. they can give an unrivaled increase in the quality of life of those suffering.

there will ALWAYS be opiate abuse. taking prescription painkillers out of the picture doesn't even put a dent into it.

do you think it makes more sense to spend time and money demonizing prescription opiates and prosecuting those who prescribe them, or use that time and money to implement programs and services that can help those who have become dependent or addicted?

What he meant was that dependency can be maintained.

Forever.

I disagree that opiates are not a good choice for short-term pain relief, and I also disagree that they are not a good choice for long-term pain relief.

If anything, pain is currently being under treated on a massive scale thanks to the new-wave crusaders against opiates, flying a flag of the same type of study they decry as flashy science only meant to gun for the headlines as proof undeniable.

There will always be opiate abuse. A moral backlash against abuse should not deny people in pain the quality-of-life increase they can get in return from opiates. Dependency be damned.

>Long term pain control is a complicated and multi facaded beast. We need to invest in it.

I do agree with this.

>"Just take a pill" is clearly not the solution that works.

It's the solution we have right now, though.

My grandparents, bless them, couldn't function without narcotic painkillers. without narcotics, there is no quality-of-life to speak of for them, and for a lot of people like them. Dependency be damned.

Until something as affordable and available as opiates come around, that can give them equipotent pain relief, traditional poppy derivatives can and should be used to treat pain in those who live each day in pain. Tolerance be damned.

I bet there is a community out there committed to this kind of thing, it sounds like you have a very specific desire.

I'd be shocked if there weren't more people out there who feel the same way, and are doing something about it.

Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.

What is Apple's next move once it saturates the market?

Or, more generally, what is the next move once you've saturated a market?

not everyone keeps a tower PC as a workstation, and there are other uses for a tower PC besides "mailserver."

many people purchase desktop PC's because they are best bang for your buck when it comes to building a PC specifically for gaming.

this article screams "out of touch" in the worst way possible. just because your tower can be replaced by a raspberry pi doesn't spell the death of midrange desktop PCs. in fact, that's an ignorant thing to say. full stop.

as long as PC gaming exists, there will always be a market for midrange power in a tower.

Just because you personally find something offensive doesn't mean it isn't funny. Humor is subjective. It might just mean you have a shit sense of humor.

Rockstar game developers exist today as they did then.

Hidetaka Miyazaki, director of Dark Souls and now president of From Software, is quickly becoming one.

what I took away last time the A10 came up around here was that the AF brass (as well as the brass of every branch of the US military) were too busy fantasizing about future wars with China to appreciate the practical usefulness of the A10 in modern warfare.

I found the multiplayer of the new DOOM to be full of strange design decisions.

It clearly wants to be an arena shooter, but it couldn't let go of loadouts from Call of Duty, nor the "modern" Halo roots the team had previously worked on. (see: Call of Duty)

The result is an amalgamation of everything wrong with modern multiplayer shooters, distilled through a DOOM filter and collected in a toilet. It wants rocket launchers, but it kills in two shots instead of one because you can just spawn with one.

It's a damn shame. Instead, I decided to go play the Unreal Tournament alpha.

don't forget the soundtrack.

no, you can't.

PC bullies are nothing more than just that. impotent bullies. they have no power and have no law behind them.

if I want to call someone a goat fucker, be it leader of a country or the guy next door, I can do so without fear of prosecution.

>since suddenly that person is playing with the fate of the rest of Germany

this kind of hyperbole is just plain ridiculous.

at least some minor restraint was exercised

That's hilarious. There were also huge gatherings, etc. I found it easy to relate to the players as far as mourning the loss goes.

It reminds me of watching an MMO I loved, The Realm Online, die slowly. It's still technically around, but development has all but ceased and the player count is ~25. IIRC it was purchased by a family who eventually let all the programmers and artists go.

awfully cheap.

then why is it phoning home? it's not normal for a driver to call home, is it?

>None of the current titles in the Oculus store have in-game advertising.

yet. you forgot the word yet.

This is ignorant at best and naive at worst. God help anyone you treat, and if you aren't a medical professional its probably for the best. Your comment makes me physically ill.

contrary to popular opinion these days, I think pain is undertreated and routinely so. quality of life should take priority over dependence concerns especially in the elderly.

>I'm sorry, but both Albright's comment and Schiller's comment are benign jokes.

if you think that's a joke, I feel sorry for you. you must give just about everyone the benefit of the doubt regardless of context.

wash a stack of bills and drink the water?

There are plenty of examples of abuses/attempts at absolution in the current Early Access ecosystem, without question.

Factorio is not one of them, IMO.

illegal drugs encourage abuse and addiction, not the other way around.

thanks for sharing that nugget of wisdom, I don't think I've ever heard a perspective on education that was more inspiring.

I'm going to stop making excuses and go back to school, I think.

I wonder why this isn't already on the table. Are monetary fines the only option for punishing/deterring this kind of abuse?

only problem is that drug tests don't prove current intoxication unless it's specifically designed to do so. the drug tests you are referring to, pre-employment and workers comp drug tests, are urinalysis.

you'd know this already if you weren't naive

I'm glad this is being implemented and not just considered.

I think that as time goes on, a lot more of these medium sized communities where heroin and other opiate abuse is taking hold are going to have to make some decisions regarding safe injection sites and needle distribution.

To the community it should hardly be more than another office building or truck on the street, IMO.

It's certainly preferable to an ocean of used syringes in the gutters and unchecked spread of disease.

Then again, the NIMBY mindset hasn't changed at all over the years.

You really should use a scale to measure it accurately. A scoop will suffice, but if you're dosing powder of any sort you ought to pony up the ten dollars for a scale.

When I worked at Sonic 10 years ago they sold (and still sell) a footlong hot dog. It's cooked on one of those gas station hot dog rollers.

I like a roller cooked hot dog, so I should look into whether or not BK is using rollers to cook them this time around. Can't say I care for a microwaved hot dog all that much.

>Gitlab is a me too product whose main selling point is "not github".

it sounds like some people are looking for just that, though.