First it should be noted that the coroner STILL cannot offer an actual cause of death. Everything he was able to examine came from a tox screen and a physical external evaluation. No autopsy was done.
That being said...
Chica was on cocaine, methadone, heroin, ecstasy Prozac, Abilify and Lamictal under prescription and was also on oxycodone without a prescription. The external evaluation showed puncture sites at her major femoral artery, carotid artery, inner forearm...in ADDITION to a fricken pic line for mainlining ****.
So while the drugs may not be labelled as the cause of death...they damn sure werent helping matters any.
Based on... the simple fact that she used drugs?
I don't suppose you've ever heard of a distinction being drawn between correlation and causation?
Your emotional state, and your mind, are controlled by chemicals produced by your body.
If your opinion were true, quitting cold turkey wouldn't be lethal, as it all too often is.
Whose business is it except the family's?
Okay, that clears some things up. That's still a lot of drugs, though.
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The medical community only recognizes one substance as physically addictive. And it's not the one most of us think of. Actually, it's the one most of us would be certain is not physically addictive.
That one substance, or one drug, is alcohol.
Heroin, cocaine, meth and any other drug is regarded as non-physically addictive by the medical community and only psychologically addictive.
That is completely false. I don't even know where to begin with you if you actually think that.
Each of those drugs you named are physically addictive and psychologically addictive.
That is completely false. I don't even know where to begin with you if you actually think that.
Each of those drugs you named are physically addictive and psychologically addictive.
Step 3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
Step 4
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step 7
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Step 11
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 12
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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I stated what the medical community, the American medical community, regards as physically addictive. It is only alcohol. For reasons I gave.
Heroin and cocaine are only psychologically addictive. That's repeated not some times, not part of the time, but all of the time in every Federally funded Veterans Administration Hospital rehab.
I never said I believe alcohol is the only physically addictive drug. I said that is what the medical community pontificates. Albeit, as I said, some views and literature is changing on this.
I stated what the medical community, the American medical community, regards as physically addictive. It is only alcohol. For reasons I gave.
Heroin and cocaine are only psychologically addictive. That's repeated not some times, not part of the time, but all of the time in every Federally funded Veterans Administration Hospital rehab.
I never said I believe alcohol is the only physically addictive drug. I said that is what the medical community pontificates. Albeit, as I said, some views and literature is changing on this.
Holy ****, that's... that's a lot of drugs.
I think you're ignoring caffeine and tobacco, for whatever reason, on the "physically addicting" line of thought.
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That is not what the medical community says.
Yes it is because that is what is continually lectured in Federally funded (as in pro-liberal, pro-Democrat) hospital rehabs in the Veteran's Administration Hospitals. The rehab councilors flat out state it's what the medical community teaches.
And I suspect you personally have a greater prejudice against heroin and crack cocaine use than say... alcohol consumption. So, you want to believe crack and heroin and meth are viewed as physically addictive as alcohol. In fact, I think you desire to believe they are even more physically addictive than alcohol.
I know... you get your info from American politicians as well as from black comedians like Dave Chappelle.
And there are few comedy shows depicting alcoholics with "wet brain" (dementia, to the point 50 year-old men have to pin notes to themselves), hallucinating during withdrawal seeing people fly through their windows or giant purple elephants chasing them, or swollen, hard bellies on skinny men, or red noses, or a great many of the things alcoholism does destructively to the body.
What you don't expect, is that a crack addict might be "fat," dressed in a suit, and regarded by many as the best mayor in the history of one of North America's greatest cities: Toronto.
But you might reply, "But the medical community calls crack, heroin, and meth addictions "diseases!"
Yeah, plenty of them do. But ironically you don't find them treating their disease patients dealing with self caused skin cancer, self caused diabetes 2, self caused heart disease, with morality based rehabs. Morality and prayer and warning phrases like, "People, places, and things" are psychological.
However, they will prescribe certain medication to alcoholics and opiate addicts. I don't think that drug they used to give alcoholics which made them violently throw up if they drank alcohol, is prescribed anymore (but I might be wrong on that).
Let me give you some advice, while stereotypes are often (not always) born from some grain of truth, usually they exaggerate even in the universality of their scope. So, I would not rely on American comedians to get all my "known truths" from.
I have a broader concept of what is physically addictive than the medical community.
But the medical community seems to regard the main criteria, so far as I can tell, of physical addiction being the potential to die from withdrawal.
So, when a heroin addict is withering in pain and sickness on the floor
, and medical professionals are standing indifferent with Nazi observation and rationalization, intellectually concluding the subject is merely psychologically addicted through morally corrupt behavior.
The medical community - which, by the way, isn't restricted to the VA agency - says that the drugs you are rambling on about are physically addictive. I don't know where you could possibly have gotten any other idea in your head, but get it out because it's dead wrong.
I don't know how to be any clearer and won't waste my time trying to be. You are either woefully ignorant or lying, and the latter doesn't make much sense.
Um....
Those are symptoms of physical withdrawal from a substance that is physically addicting.
No, that is not what they conclude. That is not what they say. The things that you are typing are not true.
(Nice Godwin move there, though)
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A French-American cardiologist then affiliated with New York Hospital–Cornell University Medical College descended into years of hellish alcohol addiction that essentially ended his medical practice in 1997. His move back to Paris and self-treatment with the unproven drug baclofen is the subject of this clinical, thoroughgoing memoir. Early on, Ameisen, the child of Holocaust survivors and an accomplished pianist, recognized that deep-seated anxiety was driving him to drink, yet doctors treated the drinking rather than the anxiety. He tried years of AA, rehab and medication, but in time he was binging again—blacking out and ending up in psych wards or the emergency room with broken bones. When he read about the muscle relaxant baclofen in a New York Times article, suggesting that it could repress the craving in addicts as well as control muscular spasm, he seized on the drug as his life line. He researched baclofen, prescribed it to himself (thanks to France's medical identity cards) and essentially used himself as a study over several months, increasing the dosage as necessary. The results were remarkable...
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