Opioids Good to Stop Bad Pain

Here is an anxious report from the Journal of Academic Emergency Medicine.
You be the judge
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Heroin made me do it

Is it heroin that takes over a person’s life?
Theodore Dalrymple opines.
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Jackass Drug Theorists

Let’s assume these Huff Post hand wringers are now concerned about Heroin ODs. After all we wouldn’t want to lose some creepy opiate addict, would we? They are so stylish and well recommended.
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Green Mountain Heroin Panic

Last week we talked about opiates and how heroin addiction and habit is overrated and mythologized–well here we go, the lefties in Vermont have too much time on their hands and the heroin helps them get through their aimless lives.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/01/11/governor-shumlin-lifts-veil-heroin-abuse-vermont/HGUkQlogvVtxZC2C1YiZfL/story.html

Addictionology is Big Time Junk Science

Theodore Dalrymple is soon to be beatified in my saints of essayists chapel.
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