Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?

• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But you must consider the possibility that heroin and brain worms damaged his brain, contributing to the stupidity, and his own stupid choices led to those circumstances that possibly increased his stupidity. Thus he remains open to criticize on all those topics.

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  • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think heroin addiction necessarily damages your brain, and if you make it out the other side you will have learned quite the lesson (presumably)

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Anything that causes respiratory depression lowers available oxygen to the brain and can cause damage over time.

      I understand the sentiment of destigmatizing addiction, but let’s not lie and say it can’t cause permanent damage. It’s a disease, right? And diseases can have aftermath.

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If this was true those on chronic opiate medications would be given supplemental oxygen. There would also be studies demonstrating the neurodegenerative effects of opiates.

        Opiates are rather safe outside of overdose and sequelae of unsafe injection / smoking. They are incredibly benign in the sense you could take 20-40-80-160mg OxyContin your whole life and not have any issues beyond constipation.

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      • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This is true, but I didn’t suggest that it can’t cause brain damage, just that it doesn’t necessarily have to follow. People with sleep apnea or who live at high altitudes don’t all have brain damage either.

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Stupid people are redeemable as well. But this asshole has seen the science, ignores it, and continues to spread his lies that will harm and/or kill people for political reasons…

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  • innermachine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yea I guess you can fix stupid, but you can’t fix willful ignorance when presented with facts and evidence. I have long thought it made no sense that all these govt positions don’t require any expertise in the area they legislate.

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think you can fix stupid. “Stupid” is label of intellectual capacity. And we ain’t Algernon’d anybody for real.

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