What Are You Listening To? -2022

Cool. You should have seen Jethro Tull on 10 tabs of windowpane, a microdot and a green goddess football. Vapor trails all across the stage.

Whitechapel - Possibilities of an Impossible Existence

I'll spare the link for once.

Better Ronv69 ?

Calmed by Nature...specifically the Rain and Fireplace sounds Youtube video. 8 hours of almost subliminal sound that doesn't distract me fromOh LOOK, There's a hummingbird!

I listened to Dust in a Baggie right after. 😁

I wonder how many we've lost because of the Vicodin lawsuits. I'm starting to wonder if anyone actually did anything wrong.

They're probably just unhappy that they have so much freedom. 

The DEA has known exactly where each pill has been dispensed for many decades. And did nothing. There were definitely some bad doctors who supplied an illicit trade. Definitely some addicts tricked well-meaning doctors. And the DEA unquestionably knew exactly what precursors went to the manufacturers, they knew how much medicine was produced, they knew where the distributors sent it and where each pill was dispensed.  Meanwhile and coincidentally, illicit opiate use had been gradually increasing since morphine was first isolated and far before even the Harrison Act.  Enter the 21st century and drug abusers were using more readily available prescription opioids, often with benzodiazapines which greatly increase adverse events.  The DEA knew where these drugs came from.  Suddenly, white middle class people were dying. Meanwhile, fentanyl and analogs were entering the country and the heroin supply chain, as it is much more cost-efficient. So, in a far too late and predictably catastrophic move, the DEA started arresting doctors,  good ones along with the few crooks.  Pain patients, as well as those who had fooled a few doctors, and those buying "secondary market" pharmaceuticals were suddenly without medicine.   There's an inflection point from this time to the present in the decrease in prescriptions and the increase in opioid deaths--which overwhelmingly involve fentanyl or polydrug abuse.  The numbers make it clear: lower manufacturing quotas and dispensed amounts correspond with increasing overdose deaths and pain-related suicides. Every year. The DEA has seen it since before the 2016 CDC Guidelines. The new Guidelines make it clear that they know the damage that they caused. It's a little late for the folks who committed suicide or died when they resorted to black market pain relief.  It's almost like bureaucrats shouldn't be practicing medicine. 

But there's money in suing Big Pharma.

I can relate… recovering from an excruciating painful tibia plateau, spent quite a few nights unable to sleep from the pain.

I would like to punch a bureaucrat or whoever in the nutsack for what I had to go through. I don’t give a damn that someone abused it, but to deny me pretty much sucked.

They should have given you IV Tylenol. It's proven to be equally as ineffective as tablets and orders of magnitude more expensive!  That's sarcasm, ofc.

Some of us have intractable pain and we're all one car accident or surgery away from needing a drug that has a known safety profile going back thousands of years.  If it's not medically contraindicated, withholding it is cruel.

Twenty-six years old and Bri'ish, but still relevant.

Deafness has its rewards. But if I had my druthers I’d pass.