Posted by Declan on June 23, 2006, at 14:41:38
In reply to buprenorphine abuse » ed_uk, posted by pseudoname on June 23, 2006, at 9:40:59
But you know, PN, these days, for whatever reason, people will abuse lots of things. Heroin was OTC until 1968 (in small amounts) along with morphine and opium based cough medicines, and they were not really abused much before the early 60s. There has been a progressive ratcheting up of the abuse level and the restrictions. People will abuse even petrol; a special petrol (opal) has been prepared here that is supposed to be non-abusable. The only sense I can make of this as a long term trend is that we have moved from being a duty oriented culture to a consumer culture. Then society's problems were disorders relating to duty (lots of cruelty, not to speak of war dead); now they are disorders relating to consumption.
You think?
Declan
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