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Griff 01-25-2014 12:49 PM

Annoying war on drugs.
 
So Lil' Griff and I are sick. I was preaching on the virtues of Mucinex D(?) the one with pseudo-ephedrine. It really helped my sinus last time around. So I stop at the pharmacy on my way from picking up my Dad's coal. Its behind the counter because we're having a War on Drugs™. The government web-site is down, so you can't have it... Cuz I'm going to make a batch of Hillbilly Heroin from like 12 tablets?

glatt 01-25-2014 01:53 PM

I hate that regulation as well.

Harder to buy cold medicine than vodka.

Gravdigr 01-25-2014 03:29 PM

...or a gun.

Gravdigr 01-25-2014 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 890924)
Cuz I'm going to make a batch of Hillbilly Heroin from like 12 tablets?

Well, they gotta know how many times you bought 12 tablets. They just gotta.

richlevy 01-25-2014 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 890938)
Well, they gotta know how many times you bought 12 tablets. They just gotta.

I actually asked my pharmacist about that last month. I read a story about a woman who got arrested and I was wondering if there is some magic number that only the government knows. If you're in a household where not everyone has a photo ID, how many tablets can you get? Does it just deny you or do they go straight to arrest mode?

Apparently, the system just denies you in Delaware. I'm looking for the story to see how the woman got arrested for this. It appears Indiana goes with plan B (arrest mode).

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/09/29...within-a-week/

tw 01-25-2014 04:28 PM

Meanwhile, the body intentionally stuffs your nose to cure a disease. Stuffy nose and coughing is what a body does to cure you faster. But advertising hypes cold remedies as necessary. And forgets to mention it subverts what the body does for health.

Better is to work with a body to make a stuffy nose irrelevant. Get in a warmer room. Then the body need not stuff up your nose to keep sinuses warmer; to get you healthier faster.

Meanwhile, supplying meth labs is apparently a good thing. After all, meth heads do not cause problems for others.

Griff 01-25-2014 05:25 PM

Thank you for your superior knowledge if my sinus. I think I'll go with my medical doctor's assessment.

tw 01-25-2014 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 890968)
Thank you for your superior knowledge if my sinus. I think I'll go with my medical doctor's assessment.

So your medical doctor says stuffy nose is not what a body does to fix itself? Or is he only curing symptoms you want cured?

Griff 01-25-2014 06:15 PM

If you want to fix the air quality of every school building I go into have at. Those symptoms will in my case lead to a sinus infection, maybe you should do my surgery as well. I'll stick to sinus rinses and the very rare use of medication instead of antibiotics or surgery. Are you in an emotional mood again? You seem to be attacking on all threads.

tw 01-25-2014 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 890975)
If you want to fix the air quality of every school building I go into have at. Those symptoms will in my case lead to a sinus infection, maybe you should do my surgery as well. .

Sinuses create flem to protect you from bad air. An average adult swallows about 1 gallon of flem every day. A rather amazing number. And a process required for your health.

During some types of colds, sinuses create more flem. They stuffy nose. It keeps sinuses warmer. Accomplish same by sitting in a sauna. A stuffy nose will then clear since it does not need flem to protect sinuses. Why would any of this make you angry?

You have a choice. Either let the body keep your sinuses warmer by creating a stuffy nose. Or cure that symptom with drugs.

Cold medications do nothing to make you healthier. Airborne was the latest and classic scam. That is also not an attack. But that reality challenges what so many believe due to advertising.

Some get angry to learn that advertising has again deceived them. Those meth based drugs only cure symptoms. Some were banned or are strongly discouraged by doctors due to their long term adverse effects.

Well published is a simple fact. None of those non-perscription cold remedies improves health. Those chemicals - also used by drug dealers to create crystal meth - only cure symptoms. In this case, they subvert a process the body used to eliminate the common cold faster.

Why would you assume this is an attack? Only stated was a medical reality. If a reallity makes one angry, that it is an attack? Of course not. It is just another reality that contradicts popular and widely believed myths.

Better than meth based sinus drugs is a long rest in a sauna. Since warmer air that makes excessive flem unnecessary while doing what the body wants eliiminate the cold virus.

Did you not know that and therefore get angry? Or did you need pseudo-ephedrine to relieve symptoms despite their adverse effects?

Griff 01-25-2014 07:54 PM

I use steam and force fluids as well. Some sinuses will not always respond. That is why my doctor recommended over the counter medication. I'm sorry I assumed that you're hurting tonight but it looks like you're falling into your old emotion based habit of ignoring information that doesn't fit your paradigm like doctor recommendations, stack stone basements, and other basic life realities.

tw 01-25-2014 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 890999)
I use steam and force fluids as well. Some sinuses will not always respond. That is why my doctor recommended over the counter medication.

So the answer was you wanted a doctor to cure symptoms. And were not looking for cure. Fine. Why did it take you so long to answer that simple question? Why, instead, be nasty?

Pseudo-ephedrine was fueling a major crystal meth epidemic. Apparently you do not like it or did not know that. Restricting that drug's sales is necessary. Resulting restrictions made necessary by so many meth labs, meth addicts and their resulting crimes. How was the epidemic fueled? Tiny amounts were purchased in many stores - in similar amounts. Resulting in necessary restrictions.

Don't blame stores or restrictions. Blame crystal meth addicts and labs that made restrictions necessary. Why does that also make you angry?

Griff 01-25-2014 08:33 PM

Actually, as I said before, I want to prevent a sinus infection. I missed the part where I was nasty. I'm actually feeling pretty mellow. Time to hit the sack. I hope you're feeling better.

richlevy 01-25-2014 09:47 PM

I'm pretty sure flem is a misspelling of phlegm.

monster 01-25-2014 10:09 PM

(I might be kinda with tw on this)


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