Say it with me: "The rich are not like the rest of us."
Not that people on the bottom 60% of the income don't do drugs. Plenty do. But when people like us do drugs, we end up evading debt collectors, sharing custody with people who are terrible parents, being evicted, and getting investigated by social services.
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) is a database that contains adverse event reports, medication error reports and product quality complaints resulting in adverse events that were submitted to FDA. The database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The informatic structure of the FAERS database adheres to the international safety reporting guidance issued by the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH E2B). Adverse events and medication errors are coded using terms in the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) terminology.
The following is another callout for " safe and effective"
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antidote, naloxone, attaches to opioid receptors, reversing and blocking effects of opioids. Naloxone can quickly restore normal breathing. Naloxone is so safe we give it immediately to anyone with signs of opioid overdose or when an overdose is suspected. However, the drug has no effect on someone with no opioids in their system.”
Suggest you might do a bit of research. The product is made by many notable companies. Testing by the FDA isn't done regularly.
There are warnings for who shouldn't have this drug but if you are, really are in opiod distress, maybe its "6 of one and half dozen of the other" as some would say.
See also the FAERS with reported adverse events especially since 2020. Maybe something about having a spike protein circulating too or is it just an anaphylaxis response?
Comparing ecstasy or molly with fentanyl is counterproductive. Like the "Reefer Madness" propaganda of old. So ridiculous to those familiar with it that it invites mocking and destroys the credibility of all drug warnings, makes them more likely to try other drugs with dangerous warnings. Hyperbole is unhelpful in the drug harm reduction world.
Ecstasy was a legal drug, used in psychotherapy up until the mid-1980's. Manufactured by Big Pharma. Not to say that makes it safe. But safer than where ecstasy ended up being manufactured, in private homes, bathrooms, bathtubs. By who knows who, with who knows what in it.
That said, under Big Pharma manufacturing standards there was very little inherently physiologically unsafe about ecstasy. How it works in the brain is inherently non-addictive. Virtually impossible to get "high" from it for several weeks after "rolling" on it. The effects in the brain during the high are temporary, but it takes that long for the 'pleasure center' it acts on to return to normal...and respond to another dose.
It was for this reason that sometime in the 1990's the home lab manufacturers started adding psychoaddictive components in order to generate more return business. Unintended, but predictable consequence of making a substance illegal. There are harm reduction groups out there like DanceSafe that will test someone's illegal drugs to make sure it is what the user thinks they have. Enablers? Your decision. But it does save lives of those who aren't bargaining for dangerously laced drugs.
It's currently being studied again for psychotherapy use. It did show promising results in the 1980's, before it became a part of the club party scene. It's not without risk, there are undesirable outcomes from overuse. That's with most anything.
But it most definitely isn't ANYTHING like fentanyl. And comparisons to it are counterproductive to those concerned with credibility when it comes to harm reduction. "Just Say No" is a nice sentiment. But seldom followed.
Say it with me: "The rich are not like the rest of us."
Not that people on the bottom 60% of the income don't do drugs. Plenty do. But when people like us do drugs, we end up evading debt collectors, sharing custody with people who are terrible parents, being evicted, and getting investigated by social services.
When people like them do it, they get promoted.
That's called PRIVILEGE.
What is FAERS?
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) is a database that contains adverse event reports, medication error reports and product quality complaints resulting in adverse events that were submitted to FDA. The database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The informatic structure of the FAERS database adheres to the international safety reporting guidance issued by the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH E2B). Adverse events and medication errors are coded using terms in the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) terminology.
The following is another callout for " safe and effective"
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antidote, naloxone, attaches to opioid receptors, reversing and blocking effects of opioids. Naloxone can quickly restore normal breathing. Naloxone is so safe we give it immediately to anyone with signs of opioid overdose or when an overdose is suspected. However, the drug has no effect on someone with no opioids in their system.”
Suggest you might do a bit of research. The product is made by many notable companies. Testing by the FDA isn't done regularly.
There are warnings for who shouldn't have this drug but if you are, really are in opiod distress, maybe its "6 of one and half dozen of the other" as some would say.
See also the FAERS with reported adverse events especially since 2020. Maybe something about having a spike protein circulating too or is it just an anaphylaxis response?
Comparing ecstasy or molly with fentanyl is counterproductive. Like the "Reefer Madness" propaganda of old. So ridiculous to those familiar with it that it invites mocking and destroys the credibility of all drug warnings, makes them more likely to try other drugs with dangerous warnings. Hyperbole is unhelpful in the drug harm reduction world.
Ecstasy was a legal drug, used in psychotherapy up until the mid-1980's. Manufactured by Big Pharma. Not to say that makes it safe. But safer than where ecstasy ended up being manufactured, in private homes, bathrooms, bathtubs. By who knows who, with who knows what in it.
That said, under Big Pharma manufacturing standards there was very little inherently physiologically unsafe about ecstasy. How it works in the brain is inherently non-addictive. Virtually impossible to get "high" from it for several weeks after "rolling" on it. The effects in the brain during the high are temporary, but it takes that long for the 'pleasure center' it acts on to return to normal...and respond to another dose.
It was for this reason that sometime in the 1990's the home lab manufacturers started adding psychoaddictive components in order to generate more return business. Unintended, but predictable consequence of making a substance illegal. There are harm reduction groups out there like DanceSafe that will test someone's illegal drugs to make sure it is what the user thinks they have. Enablers? Your decision. But it does save lives of those who aren't bargaining for dangerously laced drugs.
It's currently being studied again for psychotherapy use. It did show promising results in the 1980's, before it became a part of the club party scene. It's not without risk, there are undesirable outcomes from overuse. That's with most anything.
But it most definitely isn't ANYTHING like fentanyl. And comparisons to it are counterproductive to those concerned with credibility when it comes to harm reduction. "Just Say No" is a nice sentiment. But seldom followed.