So, the medical community is good with prescribing big money horse tranquilizer for hallucination, but not cheap "horse de-wormer" to recover from COVID. Might it be they're uninterested in our wellbeing?
"Horse De-wormer"? I take IVM and I am not a horse and don't have worms.....or Covid or flu or strep or lots of other bad stuff. The medical community is interested in well being....the well being of their bank and stock accounts.
Nada. I moved on from the irony. I find too many people calling it "horse de-wormer". It has been given billions of times in pharmaceutical prescripts to humans particularly in Africa for River Blindness caused by parasites. Ironically (like the word?) Africa was hardly vaccinated and had very little problem with Covid. Now back to the horses! Fortunately they have been taking a lot of IVM and very few have been vaccinated! No Covid there! Irony of Ironies, Dutch. Have a Merry Christmas!!
I know! I was messing with his mind using irony. "Horse Dewormer" is demeaning CDC language for a very effective medicine they banned because it worked and was inexpensive. My blood pressure escalates every time I see the words. Have a Merry Christmas!
Yes one would think (if they are able) that big pharma and the Doctors that get paid off by them, that it better serves their bottom line that you are never healthy.
I went for a pre-op prior to eye surgery. Nurse “any meds?” No. Senior nurse later “any meds?” No. PA later “any meds?” No. Doc later “any meds?” No- on the form- no meds you’re the 4th to ask.
Doc: “no advil, aleve?” No.
Doc: “ok we have to run another blood panel.” Ok- why?
“Because I haven’t seen a patient over 50 in a long time with no meds.”
I feel great. Workout everyday. 116/70. 62bpm no sugar, no grains for 40 yrs.
Doc: “alcohol?”
One bourbon
Doc: “vegan?”
Do I look stupid? Eggs & bacon, venison, beef, chicken, game birds.
Doc: “you gotta be taking something” walks out shaking his head.
So I go to surgery. The nurses & anesthesiologist repeats the exact same questions in the exact same way.
This is it. Don’t take pharmaceuticals if you care about your health! Find another way - exercise and walking for back pain, anti-inflammatory diet (avoid PUFA) for arthritis, and so on. Simple, but not easy. I’m 68 and husband 73 - no meds.
I'm envious. Seriously. I'm 67 and have all the old people's diseases. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, enlarged prostate, acid reflux, diabetes. I take two kinds of insulin and a handful of pills each day. I really do try to minimize them, and have been able to reduce my BP and acid reflux meds to less than prescribed through "experimenting with drugs."
Not that I'm typical. But I easily understand the doctor's skepticism.
I'm a retired MD here. And definitely a skeptic when it comes to "modern" medicine, horrified by the whole Covid mess (that's why I follow Alex). But, do not be discouraged by the "holier than thou" people bragging here about "no meds"! And you ARE more "typical" of people your age than they are. Yes, "lifestyle changes" can improve your symptoms and perhaps lower your need for meds (losing weight is the #1 best thing you can do for your health), but diabetes is a life-threatening disease and those on insulin NEED it to stay alive and prevent a whole host of complications (kidney failure, heart disease, circulatory problems leading to lower extremity amputations, etc). It is very important that your blood sugar be controlled!
I totally agree that there are life saving medications, including insulin. However, many of the diseases are actually exacerbated or even caused by medications. Statins, for example, raise blood sugar and raise your risk of developing diabetes. But patients are not informed about this.
Check out the testimonies here. Med-free is possible if you want it bad enough. These aren't diseases of old age. They are diseases of dietary excess. https://www.forksoverknives.com/success-stories/
YES! ⬆️THIS⬆️. This is what gets suppressed by msm - how to resolve all these issues so you don’t need as many, or any, meds, procedures, treatments and surgeries.
It’s further scary that we have institutionalized obesity to the point of fetishizing an eating disorder whereas we don’t do the same with anorexia, yet obesity is now a top 5 killer & anorexia is seldom heard anymore.
No need for apologies, but I appreciate the thought. I have good but not perfect control of my diabetes. As I already mentioned, I minimize the prescription meds to the extent possible. What I use I use effectively.
Despite all my ailments, I'm actually in reasonably good health. Someone here used the saying "better living through chemistry." That's me.
Do you know how much ketamine actually costs? I do. As a veterinarian, I use it every day for surgery. One 10ml bottle 100mg/ml costs me about $6.00.....They are charging $1,000 a treatment? All of these doctors should be.....well, I don't know an appropriate punishment, I'm so disgusted.
I have seen dogs, cats, horses come out of ketamine anesthesia...it's ugly...but necessary to perform painless surgery. I have also seen feral cats and pigs come out of similar Tiletamine anesthesia.....sometimes this is worse. How do you dampen the ketamine dissociation and smooth the side effects? With benzodiazepines...we use midazolam with the ketamine, the Tiletamine is mixed already with zolazepam.
So, basically poor Matthew Perry was anesthetized over and over and over again.....and all for PROFIT. None of this was helping him. It was scrambling his brain.
I was neutral on Matthew. I never really watched Friends too much, but he was a human being. To be basically experimented on for profit is so vile and disgusting.
To be pumped full of so much medication that he likely had no idea what reality even was anymore...but because he had plenty of $$$$, nobody cared as they killed him slowly.
Just like Prince and Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith and God knows how many others that weren't famous, but had the money to go to 'legitimate' doctors for help. These people all sought help for their agony and they were just slowly euthanized for profit. How many people have been killed in this manner? So, we have the addicts that die on the streets from the free flowing fentanyl, but how many have died at the hands of licensed doctors who profit from their slow agonizing deaths?
What has the medical profession become???
It is truly better to be a dog right now than a human who seeks medical help from a licensed doctor in this country. They are killing people with inappropriate medications for everything....cholesterol, diabetes, depression, COVID, you name it, there is an inappropriate and highly profitable medication available.....
This is why, at 59 years of age, I only go to the doctor in emergency....meaning the last time I went was when my horse dumped me and I broke 6 ribs and collapsed a lung....
My doctor wants me to have a colonoscopy, but why? I feel fine. In fact, since starting to work out again in July, I feel great. Is there something lurking in my bowels? Maybe, but at my age, it's likely slow growing and may never even bother me before the end of my life anyway....I think I'll take my chances with Ivermectin and vitamins at this point.
Lois, lots of good stuff and some really false information. Colon cancer is NOT likely to be slow growing at your age. Colonoscopy is a relatively easy way of trying to catch colon cancer at an earlier, curable stage. Some older people are blessed with good health. I am a retired pediatrician and take very low dose antihypertensive, a statin, and an antidepressant. I was diagnosed two years ago with type 2 diabetes mellitus though not overweight. I am on Ozempic by injection and in good health. I was not symptomatic when a screening test showed high blood sugars. There are plenty of conservatively oriented trustworthy physicians out there. Yes, too many have genuflected before Lord Fauci and have not read enough Alex Berenson.
Overcoming this societal acceptance of frequent, prescribed drug use is a huge challenge. Perhaps we can start by banning pharmaceutical advertising by the drug companies.
The old folks TV channels have ads about the new miracle drugs and I comment to my wife that in a few years, the ads will be by ambulance chasers offering to sue the makers of the miracle drug that turned out to have some nasty side effects.
My 22 year old son is on his 3rd rehab, a long term halfway house, very tough place. I made him read your book with me 3 years ago before cannabis helped him destroy his once good life. He now says you were right Alex. Keep saying it.
Sad. I am sorry you have had to go through this. We fought this with two of our sons. Even took one to a rehab school. By the Grace of God after a lot of prayers, we now enjoy them being very responsible adults with families and significant jobs. There is hope! We will keep you in our prayers this holiday season!
You're really fortunate. Many don't make it. Johnny's Ambassadors is a good organization trying to get the word out about how dangerous today's high THC cannabis is.
That is why the dumb Canadians voted for Trudope, his platform was to make wacky tabbacci legal, and he won. Now that he destroyed the once beautiful country, he is counting on these zombies to vote him in again 2025. Not so fast Turd, there are many of us sober as a judge citizens that want you gone long long ago. Trudope admitted to smoking it himself years ago, do I believe him, NO!! While in India his plane was not able to take off, nothing to do with the plane, however dogs sniffed some white stuff cocaine, as the pm was higher than a kite at a dinner the previous evening. MSM crickets.
I realize the pot today is much stronger than what I used to smoke in the early 90s but I was a true pot head then, pretty much stoned most days and probably drunk for a good portion of 20 to 23 years old. I still made it through college and have a pretty decent career now. There is hope.
I had a year off after high school in the beginning and went through several years where I would drop classes so I could party. I eventually transferred to a program I was interested in and was done in less than 2 years. I ended up with a bachelors at 25. I do think things are a bit different now. I had moved out of my parents house since I didn’t go away to college and realized after about a year that I might have made a mistake. They told me the only way that I could move back in was to go back to school full time. So I did and then transferred to another school that had a major I was interested in. It sounds like you are in Canada so not sure what it’s like there with regard to school and changing colleges.
Astonishing so MANY Americans have bought into the Pharma model over the decades. At some point you just have to take personal responsibility for your life. The coddling, entitling and victim mind-set is a direct reflection of personal integrity and choosing life and a life you wish to lead. Sure meds are needed, but it's OBVIOUS it's so far past over the top now and has been for a lonnnng while. Get a GRIP people. Its not rocket science living a healthy life
The most powerful med everyone takes is food they put in their mouth. Cut out everything that’s sold in the aisles in the supermarket. Anything in a box is all poison chemicals.
"But what the laundry list above shows is just how deeply Perry and the physicians who treated him had internalized the better-living-through-chemistry mantra that our pharmaceutical industry so successfully markets."
Perfectly stated.
I have ptsd (real ptsd, not diagnosed by tiktok and/or an English major). Years of therapy, lots of exercise, some adjustments to my diet, and spending time with my dogs help significantly, but there are times where pharmaceutical intervention is necessary for a period of six months or so
I don't need (and don't want) a lot of medications; generally a low dose Wellbutrin or Strattera (used for depression off label) does the trick. I had a wonderful (old school) Psychiatric NP who worked with me to keep the medications minimal for years. Unfortunately, she died.
It took 2 years to find another psychiatric clinician who wasn't making it their life's mission to stuff a smorgasbord of drugs down my throat or was willing to listen to me when I said "I don't want to be on this stuff all my life, what can I do to help myself without meds?". When I do see her, she often bemoans her under 25 patients coming in, stoned off their asses, demanding psychiatric medications for symptoms from smoking too much weed. And when she says "Nope" they freak out.
The combination of pharmaceutical and recreational drug overindulgence is going to create for some "interesting" times.
How can physicians feel good about themselves when the Hipocratic oath they all take says...'first do no harm'? These doctors are kidding themselves and are either emotional quotient LOW or blinded by the money.
I'd love to see a mea culpa, and would be more trusting of what I used to trust. Until then I'm a conspiracy theorist who can't help thinking: controlled opposition.
Just Facts, thx for your comment, there's three of us here in this little pocket of comments, and it makes me feel better knowing others are also puzzled. I have other major disagreements with a few of his political takes, which appear to be baked in and not open for calm and ad hominem-free discussion, which of course is normal for any liberal relying largely on emotion-fueled argument -- which is every single one of them when the argument is even remotely related to even one single molecule of Covid vaccines... but from what I've seen he's the ONE exception, and so I used to think there was hope after he'd get fevered pushback from many of my favorite brilliant commenters, then he'd pout and protest-eth too much, but my hope has faded over the last few years because I haven't once seen him write "Hmm, but then again..."
To warn people of the danger of ketamine, I have a suggestion for the FDA: put out a snarky message along the lines of "You are not a horse. Seriously, y'all. Stop it!".
OK- very old school addictions counselor here. In the 80s I was an administrator for a rehab home for destitute alcoholic women, in CA no less. The recovering counselors there taught me more than grad school or any subsequent continuing education. When I read about the autopsy all I could think of was "when did special K" become a therapy?" Then again, I was also opposed to state-sponsored methadone clinics in eastern KY in the 90s designed to combat opioid addiction and have been skeptical about "harm reduction" strategies in general. Let’s be honest - controlling the dosage of mind-altering drugs for addicted folks ≠ recovery. These findings indicate that Perry was not in recovery. His dosage was just being modulated by "experts".
I suspect my "prevention education " students have been laughing at me for years, then. My opinion only, but "safest" or not it is still an anesthetic and there are better long-term therapies for chronic depression. Again, I recognize that I am very old school, but non-pharmaceutical options might be worth exploring first.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is Special K? I have read that now two times and don't get it?? I am Canadian, have not heard that before. Thank you.
Merry Christmas to you also, Donna. I am always glad to share from my font of useless knowledge. Happy New Year from sunny, somewhat windy, west Florida.
Very interesting and insightful. "I'm clean", as being used in California, has a brand new meaning. Not quite as drugged up as I used to be. Good medicine in a time of real need is absolutely necessary. Based on the plethora of pharmaceutical ads on each "news" broadcast, I suspect a lot of these are unnecessary and only lead to a drug dependence where a person has to have the latest greatest drug being marketed for a made up symptom. They become lost souls and wander down paths into addiction. This all comes close to home. I had a nephew who overdosed on Opioids and died in his twenties. Jay didn't feel good about how life was going and relied on the death pill to give him an escape. Unfortunately he checked out permanently one night. We had the son of a close friend who couldn't leave the illegal stuff alone. While working out at a California gym he procured a pain reliever for a knee pain. It was fentanyl. He never woke up. He left a wife and two children that have suffered with their loss and now struggle. Being "clean" is comparable to pregnancy. Either you are or you are not. Let's not dirty the word "clean"!
Too bad the autopsy doesn't say, and neither does anyone else including the coroner or medical examiner, etc., whether Perry had had a clot shot booster in the days or weeks before he died.
Not sure of the timing, but there was a picture floating around (maybe an Instagram post?) of him wearing a T-shirt with a caption (in a Friends-like font) “could I be any more vaccinated?”…. so the damage was already done anyway
True, but the vaxx fanatics are crowing about how wrong people were to blame his death on the jabs. If we knew how recently he'd been boosted, it would help illuminate just how complicit the jabs were or weren't in his death.
The Covidiots love that the official COD was either drowning or ketamine OD rather than the jabs, but they ignore (and we'll never be told) how recent was his latest booster.
Alex is a fabulous writer. This, however, was particularly well written. A joy to read; the words just rolled off the page.
That said... wow. I never feel sorry for the California/Hollywood crowd... but this time I do. Perry sounded like a good guy that got swallowed up by all that is evil in that plastic part of the world. When my one son was a toddler, he was adorable, engaging and impossibly cute. I couldn't take him anywhere without people stopping me and telling me I should "get him an agent". What stopped me? The fear of him winding up like so many broken Hollywood carcasses like this that I read about.
I love waking up and feeling good. I just can't relate to all the drug use around us - and watching people let it destroy their lives. I continue to hope my two teen boys are able to survive the marijuana onslaught going on around them. So far, they have. I just hope that it holds.
So, the medical community is good with prescribing big money horse tranquilizer for hallucination, but not cheap "horse de-wormer" to recover from COVID. Might it be they're uninterested in our wellbeing?
Well, we kinda are interested in helping you, but only on our terms, if we get paid a lot, and if the guild says it’s ok.
"Horse De-wormer"? I take IVM and I am not a horse and don't have worms.....or Covid or flu or strep or lots of other bad stuff. The medical community is interested in well being....the well being of their bank and stock accounts.
Obviously, you completely missed the irony of the post.
Nada. I moved on from the irony. I find too many people calling it "horse de-wormer". It has been given billions of times in pharmaceutical prescripts to humans particularly in Africa for River Blindness caused by parasites. Ironically (like the word?) Africa was hardly vaccinated and had very little problem with Covid. Now back to the horses! Fortunately they have been taking a lot of IVM and very few have been vaccinated! No Covid there! Irony of Ironies, Dutch. Have a Merry Christmas!!
There's a reason Dutch placed quotation marks around "horse de-wormer"...
I know! I was messing with his mind using irony. "Horse Dewormer" is demeaning CDC language for a very effective medicine they banned because it worked and was inexpensive. My blood pressure escalates every time I see the words. Have a Merry Christmas!
But you define it as a mule some people identify as President Biden 🤔 your delusion is more protected than saying genocide to Israel.
Look how much they charge for the tranquilliser infusions! There's your answer, they are not going to give up that cash cow.
OK, you beat me to it. Guess it's a horse of a different color.
One Matthew Perry = X ordinary Joe’s? You do the math. Follow the money
Yes one would think (if they are able) that big pharma and the Doctors that get paid off by them, that it better serves their bottom line that you are never healthy.
I went for a pre-op prior to eye surgery. Nurse “any meds?” No. Senior nurse later “any meds?” No. PA later “any meds?” No. Doc later “any meds?” No- on the form- no meds you’re the 4th to ask.
Doc: “no advil, aleve?” No.
Doc: “ok we have to run another blood panel.” Ok- why?
“Because I haven’t seen a patient over 50 in a long time with no meds.”
I feel great. Workout everyday. 116/70. 62bpm no sugar, no grains for 40 yrs.
Doc: “alcohol?”
One bourbon
Doc: “vegan?”
Do I look stupid? Eggs & bacon, venison, beef, chicken, game birds.
Doc: “you gotta be taking something” walks out shaking his head.
So I go to surgery. The nurses & anesthesiologist repeats the exact same questions in the exact same way.
This is it. Don’t take pharmaceuticals if you care about your health! Find another way - exercise and walking for back pain, anti-inflammatory diet (avoid PUFA) for arthritis, and so on. Simple, but not easy. I’m 68 and husband 73 - no meds.
Dad is 93. "Baby aspirin" and vitamins: multi-vitamin, B12, and D.
20 years ago he had two knee replacements.
He's very frail and uses a walker--but HEY! At 93?
BTW, his mother lived to 94, and his grandmother died in 1968, at 92.
My dad is 93 three as well, no meds and he still mows his lawn! He does have a shot of Ouzo every day at about 10:30 am.
64 & no meds! Hubby 63, no meds either. We look & act decades younger than our younger relatives!
71- started working out in my 30’s to relieve back pain that I know I caused by running.
60 years old, no meds, 106/68, 60 bpm, sugar, grains, meat, tequila, bourbon...and biking.
64, Pureblood, no meds, Bikram Yoga, sober via Gods’s Grace 10-18-85.
I'm envious. Seriously. I'm 67 and have all the old people's diseases. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, enlarged prostate, acid reflux, diabetes. I take two kinds of insulin and a handful of pills each day. I really do try to minimize them, and have been able to reduce my BP and acid reflux meds to less than prescribed through "experimenting with drugs."
Not that I'm typical. But I easily understand the doctor's skepticism.
I'm a retired MD here. And definitely a skeptic when it comes to "modern" medicine, horrified by the whole Covid mess (that's why I follow Alex). But, do not be discouraged by the "holier than thou" people bragging here about "no meds"! And you ARE more "typical" of people your age than they are. Yes, "lifestyle changes" can improve your symptoms and perhaps lower your need for meds (losing weight is the #1 best thing you can do for your health), but diabetes is a life-threatening disease and those on insulin NEED it to stay alive and prevent a whole host of complications (kidney failure, heart disease, circulatory problems leading to lower extremity amputations, etc). It is very important that your blood sugar be controlled!
Wow! A doctor calling everyone else "holier than thou".
I totally agree that there are life saving medications, including insulin. However, many of the diseases are actually exacerbated or even caused by medications. Statins, for example, raise blood sugar and raise your risk of developing diabetes. But patients are not informed about this.
Not to mention the genetic component, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, HBP, etc.
Check out the testimonies here. Med-free is possible if you want it bad enough. These aren't diseases of old age. They are diseases of dietary excess. https://www.forksoverknives.com/success-stories/
YES! ⬆️THIS⬆️. This is what gets suppressed by msm - how to resolve all these issues so you don’t need as many, or any, meds, procedures, treatments and surgeries.
Are you overweight? Being overweight is the biggest threat to one’s health.
It’s further scary that we have institutionalized obesity to the point of fetishizing an eating disorder whereas we don’t do the same with anorexia, yet obesity is now a top 5 killer & anorexia is seldom heard anymore.
I agree BikerChick. I'm overweight but not obese. 5' 9' 184 Lbs. A couple of years ago was at 205.
I think if I could lose ~10 more Lbs I'd be about right.
Sorry, man. JFC, I hope when they reco’d jabs bcs hi risk you told them where to stuff their Pfizer bonus.
No vax for me or my family.
No need for apologies, but I appreciate the thought. I have good but not perfect control of my diabetes. As I already mentioned, I minimize the prescription meds to the extent possible. What I use I use effectively.
Despite all my ailments, I'm actually in reasonably good health. Someone here used the saying "better living through chemistry." That's me.
"a handful of pills each day" = Red flag. Ask yourself if that handful of pills is helping or harming you!
My god...how unethical can human medicine get?
Do you know how much ketamine actually costs? I do. As a veterinarian, I use it every day for surgery. One 10ml bottle 100mg/ml costs me about $6.00.....They are charging $1,000 a treatment? All of these doctors should be.....well, I don't know an appropriate punishment, I'm so disgusted.
I have seen dogs, cats, horses come out of ketamine anesthesia...it's ugly...but necessary to perform painless surgery. I have also seen feral cats and pigs come out of similar Tiletamine anesthesia.....sometimes this is worse. How do you dampen the ketamine dissociation and smooth the side effects? With benzodiazepines...we use midazolam with the ketamine, the Tiletamine is mixed already with zolazepam.
So, basically poor Matthew Perry was anesthetized over and over and over again.....and all for PROFIT. None of this was helping him. It was scrambling his brain.
I was neutral on Matthew. I never really watched Friends too much, but he was a human being. To be basically experimented on for profit is so vile and disgusting.
To be pumped full of so much medication that he likely had no idea what reality even was anymore...but because he had plenty of $$$$, nobody cared as they killed him slowly.
Just like Prince and Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith and God knows how many others that weren't famous, but had the money to go to 'legitimate' doctors for help. These people all sought help for their agony and they were just slowly euthanized for profit. How many people have been killed in this manner? So, we have the addicts that die on the streets from the free flowing fentanyl, but how many have died at the hands of licensed doctors who profit from their slow agonizing deaths?
What has the medical profession become???
It is truly better to be a dog right now than a human who seeks medical help from a licensed doctor in this country. They are killing people with inappropriate medications for everything....cholesterol, diabetes, depression, COVID, you name it, there is an inappropriate and highly profitable medication available.....
This is why, at 59 years of age, I only go to the doctor in emergency....meaning the last time I went was when my horse dumped me and I broke 6 ribs and collapsed a lung....
My doctor wants me to have a colonoscopy, but why? I feel fine. In fact, since starting to work out again in July, I feel great. Is there something lurking in my bowels? Maybe, but at my age, it's likely slow growing and may never even bother me before the end of my life anyway....I think I'll take my chances with Ivermectin and vitamins at this point.
I do not trust the medical community anymore.
Lois, lots of good stuff and some really false information. Colon cancer is NOT likely to be slow growing at your age. Colonoscopy is a relatively easy way of trying to catch colon cancer at an earlier, curable stage. Some older people are blessed with good health. I am a retired pediatrician and take very low dose antihypertensive, a statin, and an antidepressant. I was diagnosed two years ago with type 2 diabetes mellitus though not overweight. I am on Ozempic by injection and in good health. I was not symptomatic when a screening test showed high blood sugars. There are plenty of conservatively oriented trustworthy physicians out there. Yes, too many have genuflected before Lord Fauci and have not read enough Alex Berenson.
Sad...
Appreciate your respectfully written analysis Alex. Too many fall victim as they attempt to medicate away the hard parts of life. RIP Matthew Perry.
Overcoming this societal acceptance of frequent, prescribed drug use is a huge challenge. Perhaps we can start by banning pharmaceutical advertising by the drug companies.
This. Precisely. Whenever my European family/friends come here, they're always horrified by the pharmaceutical advertisements.
"They make having AIDS or Herpes seem like a fun thing! What the hell?!"
Is Gorillacillin right for YOU? Ask your doctor!
The old folks TV channels have ads about the new miracle drugs and I comment to my wife that in a few years, the ads will be by ambulance chasers offering to sue the makers of the miracle drug that turned out to have some nasty side effects.
My 22 year old son is on his 3rd rehab, a long term halfway house, very tough place. I made him read your book with me 3 years ago before cannabis helped him destroy his once good life. He now says you were right Alex. Keep saying it.
Sad. I am sorry you have had to go through this. We fought this with two of our sons. Even took one to a rehab school. By the Grace of God after a lot of prayers, we now enjoy them being very responsible adults with families and significant jobs. There is hope! We will keep you in our prayers this holiday season!
You're really fortunate. Many don't make it. Johnny's Ambassadors is a good organization trying to get the word out about how dangerous today's high THC cannabis is.
I want to punch everyone in the throat who says pot is harmless. It’s destroyed my 22 yo son.
That is why the dumb Canadians voted for Trudope, his platform was to make wacky tabbacci legal, and he won. Now that he destroyed the once beautiful country, he is counting on these zombies to vote him in again 2025. Not so fast Turd, there are many of us sober as a judge citizens that want you gone long long ago. Trudope admitted to smoking it himself years ago, do I believe him, NO!! While in India his plane was not able to take off, nothing to do with the plane, however dogs sniffed some white stuff cocaine, as the pm was higher than a kite at a dinner the previous evening. MSM crickets.
I hope you prevail.
I realize the pot today is much stronger than what I used to smoke in the early 90s but I was a true pot head then, pretty much stoned most days and probably drunk for a good portion of 20 to 23 years old. I still made it through college and have a pretty decent career now. There is hope.
He dropped out of college with 10 credits to go a year ago. I’m not holding out much hope he’ll finish anytime soon. 😞
I had a year off after high school in the beginning and went through several years where I would drop classes so I could party. I eventually transferred to a program I was interested in and was done in less than 2 years. I ended up with a bachelors at 25. I do think things are a bit different now. I had moved out of my parents house since I didn’t go away to college and realized after about a year that I might have made a mistake. They told me the only way that I could move back in was to go back to school full time. So I did and then transferred to another school that had a major I was interested in. It sounds like you are in Canada so not sure what it’s like there with regard to school and changing colleges.
Nope in the US. He has a college fund and could use the money to finish college but he’s no way ready for that.
The vaping cannabis stuff is a nightmare of sometimes 80, 90% THC plus toxic synthetic chemicals.
Astonishing so MANY Americans have bought into the Pharma model over the decades. At some point you just have to take personal responsibility for your life. The coddling, entitling and victim mind-set is a direct reflection of personal integrity and choosing life and a life you wish to lead. Sure meds are needed, but it's OBVIOUS it's so far past over the top now and has been for a lonnnng while. Get a GRIP people. Its not rocket science living a healthy life
The most powerful med everyone takes is food they put in their mouth. Cut out everything that’s sold in the aisles in the supermarket. Anything in a box is all poison chemicals.
The old saying is true…Shop the walls, stay out of the isles.
Not rocket science is it...
Srsly, whatever happened to “ you are what you eat”? Or “vegetables are healthy”?
Don’t be silly
"But what the laundry list above shows is just how deeply Perry and the physicians who treated him had internalized the better-living-through-chemistry mantra that our pharmaceutical industry so successfully markets."
Perfectly stated.
I have ptsd (real ptsd, not diagnosed by tiktok and/or an English major). Years of therapy, lots of exercise, some adjustments to my diet, and spending time with my dogs help significantly, but there are times where pharmaceutical intervention is necessary for a period of six months or so
I don't need (and don't want) a lot of medications; generally a low dose Wellbutrin or Strattera (used for depression off label) does the trick. I had a wonderful (old school) Psychiatric NP who worked with me to keep the medications minimal for years. Unfortunately, she died.
It took 2 years to find another psychiatric clinician who wasn't making it their life's mission to stuff a smorgasbord of drugs down my throat or was willing to listen to me when I said "I don't want to be on this stuff all my life, what can I do to help myself without meds?". When I do see her, she often bemoans her under 25 patients coming in, stoned off their asses, demanding psychiatric medications for symptoms from smoking too much weed. And when she says "Nope" they freak out.
The combination of pharmaceutical and recreational drug overindulgence is going to create for some "interesting" times.
We’re living in them
How can physicians feel good about themselves when the Hipocratic oath they all take says...'first do no harm'? These doctors are kidding themselves and are either emotional quotient LOW or blinded by the money.
With a ton of school debt and a big mortgage and a divorce settlement, people will justify anything to themselves.
Did you notice? Alex mentioned the "I" word. The tide may be turning "on another day".
I'd love to see a mea culpa, and would be more trusting of what I used to trust. Until then I'm a conspiracy theorist who can't help thinking: controlled opposition.
Just Facts, thx for your comment, there's three of us here in this little pocket of comments, and it makes me feel better knowing others are also puzzled. I have other major disagreements with a few of his political takes, which appear to be baked in and not open for calm and ad hominem-free discussion, which of course is normal for any liberal relying largely on emotion-fueled argument -- which is every single one of them when the argument is even remotely related to even one single molecule of Covid vaccines... but from what I've seen he's the ONE exception, and so I used to think there was hope after he'd get fevered pushback from many of my favorite brilliant commenters, then he'd pout and protest-eth too much, but my hope has faded over the last few years because I haven't once seen him write "Hmm, but then again..."
Here is to a Mea Culpa!!
As I read it, he used the "I" word in a neutral way, in reference to someone else not using it.
Are you seeing a glimmer of hope by him not launching into a raging rant?
Progress is progress albeit slow to come sometimes.
I’ve just about given up on that Christmas miracle.
We have 9 more days!!
To warn people of the danger of ketamine, I have a suggestion for the FDA: put out a snarky message along the lines of "You are not a horse. Seriously, y'all. Stop it!".
OK- very old school addictions counselor here. In the 80s I was an administrator for a rehab home for destitute alcoholic women, in CA no less. The recovering counselors there taught me more than grad school or any subsequent continuing education. When I read about the autopsy all I could think of was "when did special K" become a therapy?" Then again, I was also opposed to state-sponsored methadone clinics in eastern KY in the 90s designed to combat opioid addiction and have been skeptical about "harm reduction" strategies in general. Let’s be honest - controlling the dosage of mind-altering drugs for addicted folks ≠ recovery. These findings indicate that Perry was not in recovery. His dosage was just being modulated by "experts".
Ketamine has been a therapy for a few years . Effective against depression. Safest anesthetic available
I suspect my "prevention education " students have been laughing at me for years, then. My opinion only, but "safest" or not it is still an anesthetic and there are better long-term therapies for chronic depression. Again, I recognize that I am very old school, but non-pharmaceutical options might be worth exploring first.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what is Special K? I have read that now two times and don't get it?? I am Canadian, have not heard that before. Thank you.
I believe that’s a slang term for ketamine?
Thank you very much, now I learned another thing. Cheers from a rainy day in Ontario, Canada. Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy Blessed New Year.
Merry Christmas to you also, Donna. I am always glad to share from my font of useless knowledge. Happy New Year from sunny, somewhat windy, west Florida.
Older (80s 90s) street name for ketamine when drug users discovered the animal drug the could use instead of one's that were testable.
Very interesting and insightful. "I'm clean", as being used in California, has a brand new meaning. Not quite as drugged up as I used to be. Good medicine in a time of real need is absolutely necessary. Based on the plethora of pharmaceutical ads on each "news" broadcast, I suspect a lot of these are unnecessary and only lead to a drug dependence where a person has to have the latest greatest drug being marketed for a made up symptom. They become lost souls and wander down paths into addiction. This all comes close to home. I had a nephew who overdosed on Opioids and died in his twenties. Jay didn't feel good about how life was going and relied on the death pill to give him an escape. Unfortunately he checked out permanently one night. We had the son of a close friend who couldn't leave the illegal stuff alone. While working out at a California gym he procured a pain reliever for a knee pain. It was fentanyl. He never woke up. He left a wife and two children that have suffered with their loss and now struggle. Being "clean" is comparable to pregnancy. Either you are or you are not. Let's not dirty the word "clean"!
Chandler Bing was the archetype for an entire generation of soy-boys. I've always despised Matthew Perry and I can't work up any sympathy.
Too bad the autopsy doesn't say, and neither does anyone else including the coroner or medical examiner, etc., whether Perry had had a clot shot booster in the days or weeks before he died.
Not sure of the timing, but there was a picture floating around (maybe an Instagram post?) of him wearing a T-shirt with a caption (in a Friends-like font) “could I be any more vaccinated?”…. so the damage was already done anyway
True, but the vaxx fanatics are crowing about how wrong people were to blame his death on the jabs. If we knew how recently he'd been boosted, it would help illuminate just how complicit the jabs were or weren't in his death.
The Covidiots love that the official COD was either drowning or ketamine OD rather than the jabs, but they ignore (and we'll never be told) how recent was his latest booster.
Alex is a fabulous writer. This, however, was particularly well written. A joy to read; the words just rolled off the page.
That said... wow. I never feel sorry for the California/Hollywood crowd... but this time I do. Perry sounded like a good guy that got swallowed up by all that is evil in that plastic part of the world. When my one son was a toddler, he was adorable, engaging and impossibly cute. I couldn't take him anywhere without people stopping me and telling me I should "get him an agent". What stopped me? The fear of him winding up like so many broken Hollywood carcasses like this that I read about.
I love waking up and feeling good. I just can't relate to all the drug use around us - and watching people let it destroy their lives. I continue to hope my two teen boys are able to survive the marijuana onslaught going on around them. So far, they have. I just hope that it holds.