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Old 01-25-2014, 12:49 PM   #1
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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?
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Old 01-25-2014, 01:53 PM   #2
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I hate that regulation as well.

Harder to buy cold medicine than vodka.
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Old 01-25-2014, 03:29 PM   #3
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...or a gun.
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Old 01-25-2014, 03:31 PM   #4
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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.
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Old 01-25-2014, 04:24 PM   #5
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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/
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Old 01-25-2014, 04:28 PM   #6
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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.
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Old 01-25-2014, 05:25 PM   #7
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Thank you for your superior knowledge if my sinus. I think I'll go with my medical doctor's assessment.
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Old 01-25-2014, 05:54 PM   #8
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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?
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Old 01-25-2014, 06:15 PM   #9
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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.
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Old 01-25-2014, 07:08 PM   #10
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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?
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Old 01-25-2014, 10:09 PM   #11
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(I might be kinda with tw on this)
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Old 01-26-2014, 07:49 AM   #12
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(I might be kinda with tw on this)
We all are. I know the choice I'm making. He just ignores particulars of individual cases in favor of over-arching assumptions.
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Old 01-25-2014, 10:10 PM   #13
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..apart from the spelling
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Old 01-25-2014, 10:35 PM   #14
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I thought it was fairly common knowledge that symptomatic relief may come at the expense of prolonged illness; but, that it's considered an acceptable tradeoff when symptoms become too distracting for people's situations.
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Old 01-26-2014, 12:49 AM   #15
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The reason we have a nose is to filter out crap and warm cold air to protect the lungs. If the nose is plugged it can't do that as mouth breathing becomes mandatory.
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