treefrog

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[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

I would love to know how many members of this board have stock portfolios in pharmaceutical companies that are currently collecting huge amounts of money from antidepressants being used to treat people with PTSD.

Antidepressants that really aren't effective in the treatment of PTSD but make the pharmaceutical industry a shitload of money.

Like most things, when we follow the money we learn why powerful people make the decisions they do. And I imagine this instance is no different.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (23 children)

Again you're spouting statistics with no scientific evidence to support them. I remember that study you linked with the 80%. That rate was not for PTSD but other chronic mental health conditions being treated with psilocybin.

Your claims have no evidence to support them so please stop. Because you're not helping.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Psilocybin is not more effective for treating PTSD.

It's great for anxiety depression, those are not PTSD.

And you and I have had this conversation before but you are still spouting the same nonsense.

Both are needed. And you are minimizing what the FDA is doing here and how it will hurt people with PTSD.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This was seriously your response was to back track and say, well actually, cold is more dangerous anyway?

You don't need to reply. You proved to me already that you're not acring in good faith.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Tennessee is hot and humid.

Temperatures over 104f (40c) were common before climate change.

104 is the UK record from 2022. 113 for Tennessee, a record set during the great depression.

This is above the wet bulb level and AC isn't a privilege because without it, people will die.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sorry to hear that. My mental health is finally on the mend. Giving myself permission to be myself for the first time in my life, really.

Hope things get better for you soon :)

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, my bad for glancing at the top search result before I made my long-winded post above lol.

Hope you're well, Mr. Squid.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As flying squid helped me see, safer doesn't mean safe.

Nicotine alone can cause cancer and while vaping is 'safer' than tobacco, in that it's less carcinogenic, it is still a carcinogen. And because of the ROA, vaping is actually more addictive than cigarettes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222281/

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Nothing is 100% safe. Which is why harm reduction is an important part of the conversation when discussing drug addiction.

Water is safer than tea. Tea safer than coffee. All three can in theory kill you if consumed in large enough quantities.

Anyway, I figured I would dig around more on vaping instead of just glancing at the top search result.

And, I take what I said back. Nicotine by itself causes cancer. Tobacco just makes it more likely.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222281/

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Nevermind this, see my reply to squid below. I was operating under the wrong view that nicotine by itself is not cancer causing.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Well sure, if oligarchs paid fair, we wouldn't need unions.

But they don't. So we do.

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