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Good riddance to bad rubbish. I have never had to use OxyContin and I wouldn’t.
I use marijuana and contrary to the stereotype of it being a gateway drug, the way to get utility out of mind-altering substances is knowing which classes to avoid entirely.
The first time I ever used benzodiazepines for sleep I knew they were bad news and not safer like marijuana, modafinil, adderall and drugs with relatively low abuse potential. Alcohol is closer to benzos. Those are both things I avoid.
People presumably have diverse physiochemical profiles (if that is the right term), but pain and sleep medications are generally some of the worst drugs one could muck with.
Yesterday I remembered an article I read in 2018 about Insys and how aggressively these guys marketed opioids:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/insys-subsys-whistleblower-lawsuits/
When the rep, who requested to go by her initials, M.S., voiced her concerns to her manager, she was told that Subsys patients were “already addicts and their prospects were therefore essentially rock-bottom,” according to a recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuit that M.S. filed after leaving Insys in 2016. To boost her numbers, the manager allegedly advised M.S. to “behave more sexually toward pain-management physicians, to stroke their hands while literally begging for prescriptions,” and to ask for the prescriptions as a “favor.”
That is about pharma, but tech companies have made my life a personal hell for 15 years and I really want to take action.
With the type of rollout of unwanted technologies I am seeing here in India, short of criminal liability for all tech companies, hospitals, other institutions and state officials involved nothing will have any effect.
I am planning on that and going to set about it in an orderly manner after close to 15 years of anger at seeing this without any way to file complaints.
There is nothing “addictive” about contemporary tech. But the absence of accountability and of updated systems for the filing of complaints acts as a drain on one’s attention.
Keeping one’s head is the only way to ensure that some of the worst humans involved face criminal liability.
That is pretty serious and so one has to ensure that it is foolproof and watertight. Or it is just more time wasted.
If people like these do not face criminal charges and its all another entertainment product, a social experiment, art, what is next? A televised gangrape that is “science and art” because the victim’s brainwaves are recorded and a running polygraph monitors levels of “consent” to rape
A difficult task to work on solo, but not impossible. Now that I have formallu decided on filing criminal complaints in India and misconduct and malpractice allegations about the whole I feel better.
I had generally positive experiences overall in academic science and medicine. So I was confused by how this opaque creepy rot exists at all. But after I read about the number of “scientists” were okay with Epstein, I decided to no longer use my mentors, colleagues, oncologist or other doctors as representative of the type of scientist or doctor you are likely to find calling the shots inside these things.
I suffered from a lot of cognitive dissonance as the scientists I knew and my doctors are all decent. So how is everything this creepy and corrupt.
But this is a different type-like V.S.Ramachandran, Alex Pentland..Those guys are creeps and charlatans.
And when such people work on human subject research, criminal misconduct will end up being the only deterrent especially in India where there are misogynistic bullies who retaliate, coerce, sexually harass etc. And they must not be allowed to bully and exploit women openly as they have. Except criminal liability nothing will work on that subset.
They never had much impact on my life directly so I have no fear of them. Some old or young creepy Indian men whom I would ignore beyond ensuring there is no loophole open.
This is the tip of the iceberg. But with more women coming forward, which I think will happen, there is a really decent chance of getting some of the men who orchestrated this nightmare held accountable and ideally have some do actual hard time as what I see here daily and saw is criminal misconduct.
It is all very Marbury Lens. Most of the people where I live are really nice - yeah socially conservative relative to me, but still decent. I was looking at my neighbor - a kindly old man playing with his grandkids - all pretty idyllic.
No one on this street even aware of this predatory push Pokemon Go style to encroach stalkerishly with corrupt state officials probably okaying traffic studies, sound engineering and other parasitic invasive trash, without any public debate; no oversight by ecologists, natural scientists. This needs to be shutdown and actual criminal liability enforced for having tried to rollout a sleazy Panopticon and exploited people. I distrust all our political parties here. They are all corrupt.
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