I think the author is trying to separate the ideas of addiction and physical dependence.

Oh yeah, it’s very common. Percocet is highly addictive. I was on high doses for about a year and my withdrawal was really bad.* I just feel like a lot of the language people have been using about painkiller addiction doesn’t acknowledge that someone can be physically addicted to something that is medically necessary…

It’s not though.

For the record, as a sufferer of chronic pain: we do not know that Prince was taking Percocet recreationally. While he may well have been physically addicted, that does NOT mean that he didn’t need to take painkillers on a daily basis. His medical team absolutely should have monitored him more closely. But that…

Yeah I just found this article which groups pregnant women and women who have given birth within the last year in the same statistic. 3 out of every 100,000 are murdered, versus 2 out of every 100,000 who die of pregnancy complications. So fucked up. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTR…

Cite?

I’ve seen it cited as #1 but wasn’t sure if it was current (the studies I saw were from the late 90s). Thanks for the info.

Yes, and it’s factually incorrect. Not a matter of opinion.

“It’s very rare that someone is involved in a homicide case with someone they just had a baby with. It’s very early to make a conclusion as to what the cause, intent, motive and facts were to this unfortunate tragedy.”

I have no idea how these things work, but hopefully they could just reuse her original testimony? It would spare her reliving it again, plus I would think it would be much better evidence since even her memory may be inaccurate 40+ years later. I read the whole thing a few years ago back when I had some doubts (the…

Ah, you just helped me figure myself out a bit. I’m an easy crier and absolutely lost it when my cat passed, but when my mom was critically ill I had so much to take care of and worry about that I didn’t really cry. And actually got annoyed with my sister for her constant sobbing. It was unfair of me, but at the time…

Similar correlation to how they treat people in customer service. I’ve noticed that the upper middle class tend to treat people like shit, because they still feel like they have to stomp over people on their way up the social ladder, whereas (some of) the comfortably upper class tend to treat people better because…

I find I just have to be pickier with what I buy. I bought one sweater a while ago that I never wear because it makes me feel like this:

If you don’t need the pockets for functionality, you could always just cut them out and sew up the opening?

Eh, I have no idea which of them was the asshole, but the bartender being gay doesn’t really invalidate her claim that he made homophobic remarks. Plenty of gay men are misogynist and homophobic to queer women.

Oh man, I was a late bloomer but Jean and Johnny saved my life when I was in university. Funny how I could relate so much to a high-school story from the early 60s, but that shit is universal.

I love Persuasion, but that was in Lyme, which is in Dorset. *pushes glasses up nose*

I think I say this every time I go to the grocery store.

Sigh. I love Amanda Bynes and her struggles with mental health have made me so sad.

Oh, I totally get you. I had a very disabling back injury last year, and getting around to my appointments was horrible. There was no way I could stand on a bus or subway, but I was so afraid of taking up a priority seat because I didn’t look disabled. I started using a cane to help support me when I had spasms, and…