Posted by bulldog2 on February 3, 2010, at 15:21:42
In reply to Re: Is Suicide Ever A Viable Option?, posted by inanimate peanut on February 2, 2010, at 22:51:19
> Does your answer on whether suicide is a viable option thus depend on whether new drugs will become available to treat it? Is there a time limit on suffering? After all, there's always the promise of new drugs (look at Pristiq and Saphris) even if they suck. I don't think we can expect people to hang on with the vague promise of "someday a drug might come along" I think if you're in pain NOW and you've been in extensive pain for a long time and have tried everything available NOW, you have the right to kill yourself (and indeed should be helped to do so in a humane way). Otherwise, it will never end.
The goal of the pharm companies is to create drugs that make you functional enough to keep the capitalistic machine running. You will achieve your happiness through your work and family. They don't want you to happy from your meds. You may just vegge out and listen to music and not be productive. It's the entire anti pleasure ethic. Basically we're still a puritan society that measures your success and therefore your right to happiness in the amount of goods you produce and consume. So forget good drugs. If you want happy drugs you will have to get them on the street.
The entire drug war is a failure. The prisons are filled with drug users and sellers. Before the great drug war when opiates were legal there were many drug addicts. Probably medicating depression with their opiates. But they went about their business and no one knew who they were. Yes they were addicted but they did not have to steal to pay inflated prices for illegal drugs. Much of what we call the ravages of drug addiction are due to the criminal life style. The drugs before drug prohibition were cheap and readily available. And the entire usa was not addicted. It was a certain subset of people of responded to them. The irony is the were probably much better than what is being offered today.
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