You’re the second person to ask stool related questions today. That’s.. odd. I take a very, very low dose. I don’t usually get too tired, unless I have to take something else like a muscle relaxant as well. And if I do that, I don’t drive. I have tried cannabis, I totally believe in using it if you can and if it works…

marijuana isn’t the answer for everyone, it only works on specific types of pain and in some people it can actually increase pain. It has tremendous promise as a medicine and should be legal everywhere but it’s not a cure-all and can’t replace opioids in all situations. The only thing that will stop these deaths is…

Ok, I’ll bite. 3 hours and 46 minutes ago. I’m one of those people who uses opiates regularly ( for years and every 6 hours ) and is not an addict.

Not to dox myself, but I’ve escorted there. My friend and I joke that our protesters are the kind of people who go to brunch and tip their waiters with bible verses. They always leave before noon, so we assume that’s what they’re up to next.

He would have melted down if he had ever met my grandmother. She was straight up country, but a real deal progressive. That meant her recipe for fried chicken was “Step 1, kill a chicken...” and it also meant that back in the day when it was as bad as it soon will be again in certain parts of this nation, if a woman…

Not ten years of pension... SEVENTY YEARS of pension liabilities. The USPS is having to pay pensions for employees that aren’t even alive yet. The USPS doesn’t have much autonomy over itself either. It has to get congressional approval for any changes in rates and levels of service.

Hmm but does it have jump jets:

I got grief from my pharmacy when I wanted to refill my Synthroid prescription a few weeks early because I was going on holiday overseas and wanted to be sure I didn’t run out or lose my pills.

Maybe put up flyers with the relevant information?

And who TAKE THEM AS PRESCRIBED. Not crushed and snorted or chewed up in handfuls with a shot or two of hooch. Or who use them as a second source of income.

I have a sibling with severe spine and nerve damage after a car accident years ago. Opiates are one of the few things that work for her. I understand the need for better protocols around prescribing opiates, but watching how my disabled sister has to cross ever higher hurdles to get much needed medication is making me…

And, with this, those of us with extremely painful chronic conditions will be told to...do yoga? Learn to think our way out of the problem? Just go ahead and kill ourselves because our condition is degenerative and we will never get better and now the thing that slightly takes the edge off has been taken away due to…

Drug Firms Poured 780M Doses into WV. This article laid bare for me the extent to which pharmaceutical companies are straight up negligent in this public health crisis. Shipping 9 million doses to a town of 392 people over two years? Tell me again how they “couldn’t have known.” It’s total bullshit and I hope they’re…

Addiction is multifaceted. As a country, we need to confront what is happening in our country where unhappy people, people who are struggling day to day, turn to drugs to soothe their suffering. People of all ages and incomes turn to addiction. We need to de-stigmatize mental illness and open up access to counseling.

If you’re a white person, and you’re not a professor of linguistics giving a seminar on the history of racial epithets to postgrads, stop it. Stop it now. Whatever the situation, even in “irony” [and from your perspective without malice], you’ve radically misjudged the mood. Stop it.

And that fine line would be the concept of “consent”.

She could put a bowtie on it and tell people it’s an El Camino with a cap.

This is probably mentioned downstream but I want it known upstream too: US States and various mayors are saying “screw this, we’re sticking with the accords.”
United States Climate Alliance

By that same token:

I am on record for saying this multiple times on GMG, but holy crap Jim Cooke is phenomenal. Wow.