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2006-01-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tu3031 2006-01-05 12:34|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Like Joe Walsh used to say "The best hangover cure is to stay drunk."

Posted by eLarson 2006-01-05 16:12|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-01-05 16:12|| Front Page Top

#2 There may be some logic to this. First of all, alcohol is dirt cheap. Second, if left to their own devices, alkies can be very, very expensive to both jails and the health care system.

If you can put them in a semi-institutional setting, you might end up saving a lot of money. No illusions about curing their addiction, just getting them off the street, and out of the ERs and jails.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-05 18:08|| 2006-01-05 18:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I am sure there will be plenty of volunteers for the required confirmatory studies.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-01-05 18:12|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-01-05 18:12|| Front Page Top

#4 They should now begin distributing rigs, clean needles, and smack. Oh, a bent spoon, some surgical tubing to tie off with, and a big box of kitchen matches, too. Hell, I'd throw in a toe tag they can fill out in advance. Everything will progress more rapidly toward the desired conclusion, thereafter.

If people want to drop out of society, you can't stop them. If they want to poison themselves, you can't stop them. If they want to die, you can't stop them. Facilitate them, keep them out of the jails and ERs - those are needed for real people, not the self-made ex-people, whatever suicide route they've chosen.

Posted by .com 2006-01-05 18:20|| 2006-01-05 18:20|| Front Page Top

#5 .com: well said. I long suspected that there are a large number of people with a "suicide" switch in their heads. They are bound and determined to self-destruct, and if denied their preferred means, will then choose alternate ones.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-05 21:40|| 2006-01-05 21:40|| Front Page Top

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