Opioid deaths skyrocket in PA as Trump is unable to contain crisis (but he can golf and tweet)

[Hal-9000]

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

It’s a personal choice

So you can't name one person who chose to be an addict

Did this person choose this

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

 

[jon_berzerk]

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

It’s a personal choice

So you can't name one person who chose to be an addict

Did this person choose this

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

 

[Hal-9000]

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

It’s a personal choice

So you can't name one person who chose to be an addict

Did this person choose this

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

Addiction is not a chosen behavior............

Are you an addict trying to justify your sickness?

 

[jon_berzerk]

It’s a personal choice

So you can't name one person who chose to be an addict

Did this person choose this

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

Addiction is not a chosen behavior............

Are you an addict trying to justify your sickness?

yes it is ask any recovering addict ya idiot

 

[Dschrute3]

Just another Government-manufactured 'War on Drugs' scam. Time to raid more homes and murder more Citizens i guess. Just decriminalize and move on. Partaking in drugs is an individual adult decision. Using drugs is not a criminal act. It's a personal decision. Time to end the 'War on Drugs' and abolish the DEA. No more Citizens need to be thrown in cages and murdered by Government, in the name of 'Fighting Drugs.' That time needs to pass.

 

[Hal-9000]

So you can't name one person who chose to be an addict

Did this person choose this

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

Addiction is not a chosen behavior............

Are you an addict trying to justify your sickness?

yes it is ask any recovering addict ya idiot

A recovering addict does choose to be a recovering addict, none of them chose to be addicts, if they did they would not be recovering addicts.

What are you choosing to be addicted too?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

I thought you Liberals were tired of the war on drugs ?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

Addiction is not a chosen behavior............

Are you an addict trying to justify your sickness?

yes it is ask any recovering addict ya idiot

A recovering addict does choose to be a recovering addict, none of them chose to be addicts, if they did they would not be recovering addicts.

What are you choosing to be addicted too?

They are absolutely responsible for their condition.

 

[Dschrute3]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

I thought you Liberals were tired of the war on drugs ?

They're irrational haters at this point. They've allowed their rabid hate for Trump to cloud their judgement. They don't know where they stand on anything at this point. All they do know, is that they're supposed to hate Donald Trump. Very irrational folks.

 

[jon_berzerk]

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

Addiction is not a chosen behavior............

Are you an addict trying to justify your sickness?

yes it is ask any recovering addict ya idiot

A recovering addict does choose to be a recovering addict, none of them chose to be addicts, if they did they would not be recovering addicts.

What are you choosing to be addicted too?

well as i stated it is a behavior (a choice) one that must be made

in order to stop the addictive behavior

Stop with the personal slams troll

or off to iggy for you you newbie fuckers are a dime a dozen

 

[Hal-9000]

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

Addiction is not a chosen behavior............

Are you an addict trying to justify your sickness?

yes it is ask any recovering addict ya idiot

A recovering addict does choose to be a recovering addict, none of them chose to be addicts, if they did they would not be recovering addicts.

What are you choosing to be addicted too?

well as i stated it is a behavior (a choice) one that must be made

in order to stop the addictive behavior

Stop with the personal slams troll

or off to iggy for you you newbie fuckers are a dime a dozen

You are mocking sick people, you deserve to be slammed.

That said you are obviously an addict in denial

 

[Hal-9000]

Addiction is not a choice, the ramblings of an addict are hardly evidence of reality.

Next

yes it is

addiction is a behavior and all behaviors are a choice

Addiction is not a chosen behavior............

Are you an addict trying to justify your sickness?

yes it is ask any recovering addict ya idiot

A recovering addict does choose to be a recovering addict, none of them chose to be addicts, if they did they would not be recovering addicts.

What are you choosing to be addicted too?

They are absolutely responsible for their condition.

Are the drug smugglers responsible for anything?

 

[Aldo Raine]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

Another massive failure by the Orange Clown after the Democrats did so much to prevent it. Next tweet: Donald Trump fails to reign in space junk falling in from outer space.

The democrats caused this problem by letting drug smugglers come in from Mexico

You got that kid?

No they didn't, the opioid crisis was started by big pharma as both parties turned their back and let them make yuuuuge profits while hooking millions of people on that shit! This is a problem shared by both parties!

 

[Two Thumbs]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

It got this way under obama

not that you care about these people, clearly you don't give one fuck.

 

[WillMunny]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

No politician on this planet is RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT PEOPLE WILLINGLY CHOOSE TO PUT IN THEIR OWN BODIES. Heroin is so legendary for the ferocity of its addiction and ease of overdose, nobody who chooses to put that in their body IN THE FIRST PLACE deserves ANY sympathy at all. I'm glad its withdrawals cause so much misery for the most kleptomaniac drug addicts of all time. This country had a junk epidemic LONG before Trump was president. You're just perpetuating that liberal victim mentality bullshit that "it's always someone else's fault." What you liberals encourage is reprehensible. The concept of personal responsibility is completely alien to you.

And what the FUCK do you liberals expect any politician to do about it anyway? Wave a magic wand and make people's bad decisions and addictions disappear???

 

[buckeye45_73]

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

Ah yes, inbred. One of the prototypes, that will stand forever as a monument to Trump’s failure.

You said there was no building, why lie? or are you just stupid

My neighbor built a fence a while back. That doesn't make it a Mexican border wall

Yawn

Yep. I predicted Trump sheep would yawn and not care when the wall never ends up getting build.

its getting built......I want it built just to spite you guys......and to prove it works....just like all the other bullshit you guys say......hey we still have polar icecaps and they look the same as in 2007. I guess that Gore guy was full of shit

 

[TheOldSchool]

I want it built just to spite you guys

Yes. That is, of course, a terrible reason to throw away money on a wall that will be torn down immediately by the next Democrat President.

 

[tycho1572]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

It got this way under obama

not that you care about these people, clearly you don't give one fuck.

You are right about that!

I work in a hospital that has seen a huge increase of drug related admissions and deaths since obama was elected.

 

[Two Thumbs]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

It got this way under obama

not that you care about these people, clearly you don't give one fuck.

You are right about that!

I work in a hospital that has seen a huge increase of drug related admissions and deaths since obama was elected.

leftist like to pretend all this happened under trump.

trump started putting money into it shortly after his election, thing is, you can't force people to be adults

 

[Nosmo King]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Drugs are a public health crisis.