Things You Just Don't Care About

I care about the underlying factors because those don't always lead to individuals being addicted to opioids. I probably should've posted this on the controv opinion thread.

There's a difference between knowing why one ought to care, and caring.

Opioid epidemic spreads to fentanyl overdoses as well. My buddies friend died of an overdose recently. It’s a huge problem in Vancouver and the efforts to fix it have been piss poor. Intake sites help the homeless to test and shoot up safely. Understandably these individuals have a more urgent need for these resources but the options for non homeless are appalling: a needle Naxolone kit which no individual could administer if overdosing unless a friend was there to babysit you basically

xpost A- which is a summary of what this thread should be.

I think most people are aware of these things. Sorry about your friend friend.

one of my best friends, who I had known for about 15 years, died of a fentanyl overdose. its something that still pains me to think about today. what gets me is just how stupid it is - if you research the drug for two minutes, you can find out that it's super easy to overdose on and it apparently doesn't even get you that high. I'm still pissed that he even took it in the first place. I'm pissed that the guy who originally got it was even prescribed something like that, given that he sold 95% of the meds he got as the result of a car accident from 8 years back. It's such a stupid thing to give out like that.

I don't have any close friends who have died, but a friend-of-friends and an old friend of my neighbor died of fentanyl overdose

to my knowledge, neither person knew they were taking fentanyl, though

I guess for me it goes under "things I really don't want to care about"

^ yeah

I literally don't care about how people use the word 'literally'.

But do you care about how people use the word 'figuratively'?

I do, yes. Funny old world.

this thread isn't for convincing people to care about something they don't care about

I mean, one is a perfectly normal filler word, the other is an attempt to show off very limited linguistic knowledge by substituting a completely unsuitable word with the wrong function. The first is normal usage, the second is some magical mix of pompous pedantry and pig-headed stupidity.

Ready Player One and how bad it is

I care about the opioid crisis but a lot less than I care about a lot of other things, including principally planetary warming caused in part by the fossil fuel industry, a major historic center of which in the United States is also ground zero for the opioid crisis.

I am interested in the relationship between the crisis and marijuana legalization, which reportedly led Mexican cartels to replace weed fields with poppy fields and may have driven it, but is also claimed by a new study to be a potential solution.

Yerac I didnt mean to give you a hard time fwiw

It's ok. I know it's controversial. I come from a military family//hometown. The military hospital gives out hundred(s) count bottles of vicodin/hydrocodone etc. with 2-3 refills. I stopped caring awhile ago.

good for your sanity tbh

1. People who are suffering get my sympathy more or less automatically, and I usually don't care whether they "deserve" it. Desert is a tricky concept and it shifts quite a lot if you care enough to look at root causes.

2. That said. I have moderate-to-severe chronic pain (a fun combo of Lyme disease, gouty arthritis, and garden-variety arthritis). I've seen a half-dozen doctors. I can get an anti-inflammatory, but a painkiller of any sort is never even mentioned as an option, and I can't ask without being labeled as a drug-seeking fiend. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to go about obtaining an opioid.

3. From what I've heard, every reputable practitioner is trained to assume that anyone complaining of pain is drug-seeking and should be denied painkillers out of hand. So lots of ordinary people who would benefit from a painkiller can't get much more than Advil, while people whose lives are being destroyed are apparently able to get fistfuls of them on demand. Not sure what is going on there. Who is doing the prescribing?

disreputable practitioners

Fentanyl and heroin are being made in illegal labs outside prescribed distribution tho

My wife had sinus surgery last fall. Before the surgery a nurse came in and gave us a big moralistic lecture about prescription drug abuse. We both enthusiastically agreed with everything she said. We just wanted her out of there because we were much more worried about whether my wife would have any complications from the surgery than whether she would turn into a raving drug addict over some Vicodin.

They supposedly gave us enough pills to get through the weekend (she had a follow-up scheduled for monday). By 6 pm on Friday night though, all of the surgical anaesthetic fully wore off and she was screaming in pain and the Vicodin was doing nothing. We called the doctor through his answering service, and he advised that we could up the dose a certain amount. At that rate though we ran out of drugs a little after midnight.

I've had friends die from heroin and shit. It's real fucked. But give patients access to the medicine they need.

Smashing pumpkins

facebook hand-wringing is starting to give me a serious case of dgaf.

Ant

apu, the simpsons, what the simpsons has to say about apu

Fleetwood Mac and who is or isn't a member

when funny dude late night hosts get emotional about serious topics.

i don't care who led zep stole from or what they stole. led zep rule! #bonzo4ever

^^^^^^^

omar & scott extremely OTM

spy's, and their poisonings

Trump investigation. I'd wager the balance in my current account ($39 Canadian) that he's still prez at the close of this year

The Saxe-Coburg-Diana brats and their copulation and wedding arrangements with other self-important spoilt rich brats. Celebzz in short.

I ned a thing for when i experience a thing and go from “caring curious” to officially “not caring,” but it’s merely a bullshit facade to disguise that i’m actually hostile to some of the hot takes and it’s safer to just go “ah, fuck it, really ‘idgaf, everyone’”?

It passive-ijdgaf.

“I don’t care for it and find it grating to hear about this much” still allows your interlocutor some dignity for caring about it

I think you’re right, mine is maybe more “pass-ag idgaf.”

lmao @ "caring curious"

that is excellent. gonna use that from now on, thx

There are lots of things one doesn't care about, but it's unremarkable that one doesn't care about them. Obscure lichens. Long-vanished minor-league hockey teams. Extinct rice varieties. Rainfall in uninhabited districts of Mongolia. Unpublished short stories by adolescent New England prep-school males 1983-87.

One only mentions something here if it's not enough to establish that you don't care about it - you want to make some kind of statement vis-a-vis people who DO care about the thing.

It’s about knowing when to care or not to care

whether Trump or Pence is president

there's just no way to know

those short stories about drama at jfa shows in new haven were not gonna write themselves u know. Xp

most of those things sound interesting tbph

Especially obscure lichens

Mark Zuckerberg.

... especially obscure lichens are more interesting.

yeah i was gonna say everything bar the short stories sounded good

ilxors be likin' lichen

obscure knowledgey things are more worth caring about than vastly overstocked opinions