man you gotta look into ibogaine treatment for ptsd, addiction, depression

it's a big deal in the SF veteran community, and still illegal in the USA

alot of men who got their mind and soul destroyed in combat and been a mess for years get 1 treatment and then they got their head on straight

Why don't veterans get an entire month of observation and remembrance?

The thing about Ibogaine is there's a good chance for a transformational cure, and a modest chance for death, like old school alchemy. The medical establishment doesn't look very kindly on those odds, even if it wasn't cutting into the income from antidepressants and other shoddy-but-profitable interventions.

The sad reality is this: people see things like microsurgery, heart transplants, ECMO, mRNA vaccines, AIDS cures, and all other sorts of medical miracles and expect that when they go into the doctor complaining of things like depression, addiction, or PTSD, they are getting interventions of equivalent complexity and efficacy. In reality, they are getting leeches and reiki for their blood ghosts. Very few, if any, doctors will have an earnest conversation with their patient about the fact that we actually just don't have very many effective interventions for these problems. What we do have is barely distinguishable from placebo or natural healing over time. It's just, here's some pills, and on to the next one, knowing full well the patient probably already has preconceived expectations about what the doctor will be able to do for them, and will likely riot if those expectations aren't met.

Part of the blame lies with big pharma basically committing fraudulent science in getting these medications approved, part lies with the health insurance and medical ecosystem that treats doctors like assembly line workers and awards mediocrity, and part with the patients themselves being, generally, extremely poor evaluators of the efficacy of their own care. At times, the most effective intervention for these things is actually to not take pills, and instead to get your fat ass outside and do some interval sprints, high intensity exercise being the end-all-be-all gold standard for neuroplasticity and brain derived neurotrophic factor, but too many people would crucify their MD for telling them that and providing nothing else.

I don't know about you but I'd take something substantive like health care or hiring advantages over a month of lip service and 'thoughts and prayers'.

This kid is crying because freaks like you fill their heads with dellusional racist propaganda that yt people are nazis and are going to throw kids into prisons in guantanoma bay.

I swear I wish i wish i wish that was true but its not!!! I want to throw you in there so bad.

how do we fix everyone and their mother having their money tied up in the medical industrial complex

that's the biggest hurdle to change i can imagine, it's a big problem but it makes alot of money for alot of people

We could have that, and all kinds of social programs in this country.

If we didn't invite literally everyone in the world to move over here and start getting them.

You get one or the other. Immigration, or social programs.

You don't get both.

Nowhere have you ever gotten both.

In fact usually where you get it there is a major reduction in total population.

Such absolute nonsense.

:rolleyes:

This is America the country was built from immigration. This country is a melting pot of different cultures.

We did thrive because of our acceptance. Every country knows of the freedoms and opportunity in America.

America has had immigration and social programs since its conception. We are the richest nation in the world and its people insist on just making the insanely rich that much richer.

The right has it engraved in their heads that if they haven't worked for it then they don't deserve it. That it is socialism if we ever go back to the early 1940s, where the top marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans reached as high as 94%.

This nation's nationalism and military/local institutional family structure is sickening at times. Europe and may other countries quickly learned this is just a formula for those that love extremism.

The distain in America seems to be regulated to Latina American countries.
I just see this as no different from the distain for the Irish or Chinese early in America's history.

To much of a culture shock to those who didn't grow up with acceptance.

It is too bad.

please don't yell at me for linking the mises
 

The Good Ol’ Days: When Tax Rates Were 90 Percent

Change tax deductions on passive investments losses on real estate then ;).