[ExI] addiction solution?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Thank you Dan and Dave - I just don't know where my mind went.

Here is another/new addiction problem:  doctors never, in my experience,
suggest meds other than prescription ones which Big PHarm pays them to push.

I got off Naproxen (did I post that?) when the People's Pharmacy, which I
do trust, posted a scary journal article about nsaids.  No osteoprthritis
pain came back, apparently because I also have been taking curcumin and
boswellia - anti-inflammatories.

I think a lot of people have stories like this, and get their info from
other people or web sites which may be of questionable validity, as many of
them are selling supplements like curcurmin.  I don't know of a reputable
journal which reports experiments and studies of various supplements, so we
have little experimental evidence to go on.

Some of these things work, and have been working for thousands of years.
So why don't physicians know of these and prescribe them?  We know, don't
we?

Most people have something wrong with them and go to various people for
help.  One supplement seller acknowledged that he was selling hope, as he
had no evidence for any of his products.

This needs to change.  How can we get people who have no monetary interest
in the outcomes of supplement studies to do quality scientific work to find
out what works and what doesn't?

bill w

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 7:39 PM, William Flynn Wallace <
> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> ​Maybe I am having a senior moment, but am not coming up with who profits
>> from the war on drugs.  It's not as if people who use pot are going to buy
>> something legal if they can't get pot.  Of course, being illegal means the
>> prices stay high, profiting the drug dealers and growers.​
>>
>
> Not a comprehensive list:
>
> US DOJ
> Police departments, via civil asset forfeiture and federal funding
> Prisons
> Law enforcement suppliers
> Drug testing industry
> Lawyers
> Politicians who receive campaign donations from those benefitting
>
>
> I would add to those:
>
> 1. Public officials who are corrupted by payments from those in the
> illegal drug business
>
> 2. Those in said business who benefit from keeping prices up and
> competitors out
>
> 3. Far less directly: pharmaceuticals and those in healthcare who benefit
> when people with depression, chronic pain, and other maladies can't use
> marijuana to self-medicate.
>
> It shocks me that folks are just discovering the Portugal now and that
> they don't seem to know libertarians have been making the case for ending
> drug prohibition for decades now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>    Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":
> http://mybook.to/SandTrap
>
>
>
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