LSJ 376 Lecture 10: Pills and Profits
1 Dec 2016
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Profits concentrated at the top, risk at the bottom. Efforts to reduce supply have not achieved stated goals. But efforts to reduce supply have had many unintended consequences. Corruption and violence endemic to illicit drug industry. 5% of people who quit cold turkey die of withdrawal. Combining this with opiates leads to a very high risk of overdose. Us vastly surpasses other countries in diagnosing adhd (cid:9675) (cid:9675) (cid:9633) (cid:9633) The opiate is released slowly over an extended period of time (cid:9674) Won"t have the extreme high and low (craving) that starts the addiction. Once was believed to be a medical wonder with not much drawbacks but then people found ways to abuse and become popular use and addiction grew (cid:9675) (cid:1)ess widely used (cid:9675) (cid:9675) (cid:9675) Some people believed that it gives super human strength to users. Can create some type of unpredictable reactions (cid:1)nti(cid:1)psy(cid:1)(cid:1)oti(cid:1)s. Not a lot of people want to take it.
