tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post5211076257857469120..comments2024-03-28T18:59:21.172-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Amphetamines on campus -- an initial pushback?agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-88827918403156699122013-05-06T14:54:43.314-04:002013-05-06T14:54:43.314-04:00Hell, I take adderall sometimes to get shit done.
...Hell, I take adderall sometimes to get shit done.<br /><br />-CurtisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-65267839153089870382013-05-02T16:31:19.619-04:002013-05-02T16:31:19.619-04:00This may be of interest:
"When it comes to f...This may be of interest:<br /><br />"When it comes to food and nutrition, we often worry about low-income families who need assistance getting healthy food on the table, fighting childhood obesity, and just keeping hunger at bay. But it turns out that kids from wealthier families may have a surprising worry as well. According to a new study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology meeting earlier this month, children from affluent families may be more likely to develop life-threatening peanut allergies, in part, because they’re not exposed to enough germs in early childhood.<br /><br />Those findings support the long-held “hygiene hypothesis,” which proposes that children who aren’t exposed to enough germs in early childhood are at greater risk for developing an allergy—an idea first introduced over 20 years ago."<br /><br />The article goes on to say that children of the wealthy are more likely to have food allergies.<br /><br />What do you think? The wealthy(or some of them) are just neurotic and more likely to have their kids diagnosed with allergies? Or the kids really have weaker developed immune systems?<br /><br />-Curtis<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-67360800583096899922013-05-02T08:40:01.563-04:002013-05-02T08:40:01.563-04:00The suicide rate also rises as the crime rate rise...The suicide rate also rises as the crime rate rises. So its no surprise that Baby Boomers were more likely to experience serious mental pain - they were more likely to be the victims of crime.<br /><br />-CurtisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-28694052297532439752013-05-02T08:31:52.110-04:002013-05-02T08:31:52.110-04:00" (and numbers of people "disabled by me..." (and numbers of people "disabled by mental illness per 1,000" increases in the 1960s to 1980s period dramatically, at a faster rate of acceleration than 1990s to 2010s), BUT perhaps talk therapy makes more sense in a more socially extraverted era (and taking drugs which inhibit extreme emotional responses doesn't)?"<br /><br />Gen Xers were more likely to experience serious pain, i.e. become "disabled" by mental problems. As opposed to the continual slow burn of the Millenials.<br /><br />I guess you're right that therapy is an outgoing activity.<br /><br />-Curtis<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-82605139649840347112013-05-02T08:28:10.804-04:002013-05-02T08:28:10.804-04:00"By the way, what do you think about the coin..."By the way, what do you think about the coincidence that Prohibition (of alcohol, and to a lesser extent other drugs) and the War on Drugs were both rising phenomenons?"<br /><br />No, as governments are more repressive and brutal during rising-crime eras. Because the crime is higher, people are willing to grant more power to the authorities. <br /><br />But that doesn't stop the crime wave, because government action doesn't do that much. What does make the difference is if people are going outside their houses or not.<br /><br /> Compare chicago police at the '68 Democratic convention, to the response to occupy Wall Street.<br /><br />-Curtis<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-7553504056277303182013-05-02T08:23:56.113-04:002013-05-02T08:23:56.113-04:00"Do they just have less pride and ambition or..."Do they just have less pride and ambition or is it channeled into other activities?"<br /><br />They've had so little experience, that more often than not they have no idea what they're doing. <br /><br />-Curtis <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-14863774170965439292013-05-02T03:53:26.269-04:002013-05-02T03:53:26.269-04:00Re: this But in the next 5-10 years, I see a repea...Re: this <i>But in the next 5-10 years, I see a repeat of that awakening circa 1960 against casual drug use.</i><br /><br />The accounts I can find online (e.g. http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/180/trends.html) that prescription drug continued to increase through the 1960s to mid 1970s and fell from around the mid 1970s to late 1980s (prior to the release of Prozac and a new wave of drugs), with methaqualone and valium filling a lot of the gap of reductions in barbituates and amphetamines which occured in the 1960s to 1970s period. That does kind of still map to falling-rising but doesn't seem so tight.<br /><br /><i>The harsher effects of opiates (the drug of choice during the Jazz Age) and crack / cocaine (during the New Wave Age) makes it harder to slap together a medical rationale for their use.</i><br /><br />I thought opiates were the drug of choice in the Victorian Age (laudnum)?<br /><br /><i>And rising-crime times see less cocooning and more social connectedness, reducing people's feeling that they need to take a pill in order to feel better. They already feel better from their sense of belonging and social support.</i><br /><br />The reports I can find, again online, about mood disorders and cohorts indicate that these rose in the Baby Boomer and Gen X cohort compared to ones which came before (and numbers of people "disabled by mental illness per 1,000" increases in the 1960s to 1980s period dramatically, at a faster rate of acceleration than 1990s to 2010s), BUT perhaps talk therapy makes more sense in a more socially extraverted era (and taking drugs which inhibit extreme emotional responses doesn't)?<br /><br />By the way, what do you think about the coincidence that Prohibition (of alcohol, and to a lesser extent other drugs) and the War on Drugs were both rising phenomenons?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-35582013385949078032013-05-01T21:00:52.860-04:002013-05-01T21:00:52.860-04:00How are Millenials able to "settle" for ...How are Millenials able to "settle" for BS-ing? I would think that most people's egos would prevent them from falling into that rut; for example, I could BS my way through a presentation at work but I'd much rather do something that was, if not life-changing, at least not a complete waste of people's time.<br /><br />Do they just have less pride and ambition or is it channeled into other activities?Jokah Macphersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04185675633464395897noreply@blogger.com