#addiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #addiction, aggregated by home.social.
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“66 days is a long time without sex. You struggle for more than a week.”
He wasn’t wrong.
I decided to aim for a month.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/can-this-gay-man-go-a-month-without-sex-7561f3597604 -
“66 days is a long time without sex. You struggle for more than a week.”
He wasn’t wrong.
I decided to aim for a month.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/can-this-gay-man-go-a-month-without-sex-7561f3597604 -
I spent £3,565 a month on codeine tablets from online pharmacies
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I spent £3,565 a month on codeine tablets from online pharmacies
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Meta faces trial over Facebook, Instagram impact on young users
Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a federal court trial over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #world #business #technology #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #socialmedia #addiction #children Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow Reuters on Facebook: Follow…
http://fllics.com/en/video/meta-faces-trial-over-facebook-instagram-impact-on-young-users/
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Meta faces trial over Facebook, Instagram impact on young users
Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a federal court trial over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #world #business #technology #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #socialmedia #addiction #children Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow Reuters on Facebook: Follow…
http://fllics.com/en/video/meta-faces-trial-over-facebook-instagram-impact-on-young-users/
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NPR just confirmed what folks in recovery have always known: too many doctors still treat addiction patients with suspicion instead of compassion. The AMA classified addiction as a disease in 1957 — but stigma in the exam room is still costing lives. Evidence-based treatment exists. The barrier isn't the science; it's the judgment.
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NPR just confirmed what folks in recovery have always known: too many doctors still treat addiction patients with suspicion instead of compassion. The AMA classified addiction as a disease in 1957 — but stigma in the exam room is still costing lives. Evidence-based treatment exists. The barrier isn't the science; it's the judgment.
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The entire U.S. economy is basically a giant betting app
Senators oppose gambling on wildfire outcomes, but the financial sector rewards amoral wagers
#DepravityEconomy #gambling #casinos #thieves #addiction #exploitation #InsiderTrading #rigged
www.salon.com/2026/08/12/t...
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We are in a reality where there's a version of the classic experience of 'Doom-scrolling' for every platform.
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Jury selection is on Wednesday, with opening statements slated to begin August 18. #Meta founder and CEO #MarkZuckerberg is expected to testify, as is #Instagram head #AdamMosseri.
In terms of potential damages & implications for Meta, the trial is the biggest test yet of youth #socialmedia litigation & comes amid a broader reckoning across the globe over social media's effects on young users.
#law #privacy #infosec #tech #engagement #addiction #MentalHealth #business
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Jury selection is on Wednesday, with opening statements slated to begin August 18. #Meta founder and CEO #MarkZuckerberg is expected to testify, as is #Instagram head #AdamMosseri.
In terms of potential damages & implications for Meta, the trial is the biggest test yet of youth #socialmedia litigation & comes amid a broader reckoning across the globe over social media's effects on young users.
#law #privacy #infosec #tech #engagement #addiction #MentalHealth #business
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The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, will test Colorado, Kentucky, California & New Jersey's allegations that #Meta designed its platforms to keep young users hooked & misled consumers about their safety. It will also address claims by 29 states that the company illegally collected & used #children's #data in violation of federal law.
#law #privacy #infosec #tech #socialmedia #engagement #addiction #MentalHealth #business
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The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, will test Colorado, Kentucky, California & New Jersey's allegations that #Meta designed its platforms to keep young users hooked & misled consumers about their safety. It will also address claims by 29 states that the company illegally collected & used #children's #data in violation of federal law.
#law #privacy #infosec #tech #socialmedia #engagement #addiction #MentalHealth #business
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Karl_Theodor/114001463185875273
Wie 🔥 #Stress die 🧬 #DNA verändert ⚠️
Dr. ✍️ 👩⚕️ #LenaWeber
🔬 📚 #Zusammenhänge
warum 🌱 😀 👯 #Cannabis lindert und heilt ➡️
🧬 #Epigenetik und 🔥 #Trauma beschreiben zusammen eines der bedeutendsten wissenschaftlichen Felder des 21. Jahrhunderts.👍
https://lehrbuch-psychologie.de/epigenetik-trauma/
#Hanfwissen #Hanfgeschichten #Gesundheit #WeedMob #Endocannabinoidsystem #Schmerz #pain #overload #DNAMethylierung #Janov #Addiction #nopain #notrauma #warondrugs #Narrativ #Klimakatastrophe #SPD #CSU #Zukunft #Streeck #fff
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#Latvia has failed to reach targets set in the country's #addiction prevention plan for 2023-2025, the Ministry of #Health reported. Risky #alcohol consumption among adults increased from 39.8% in 2020 to 41.6% in 2024, while the use of illicit #drugs rose from 4.5% in 2020 to 5.5% in 2025.
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#Latvia has failed to reach targets set in the country's #addiction prevention plan for 2023-2025, the Ministry of #Health reported. Risky #alcohol consumption among adults increased from 39.8% in 2020 to 41.6% in 2024, while the use of illicit #drugs rose from 4.5% in 2020 to 5.5% in 2025.
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RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·US court rules Meta, others must face thousands of social media addiction suits
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RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·US court rules Meta, others must face thousands of social media addiction suits
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MARY: Well, I worry terribly about lung cancer. I also worry about shortness of breath and heart disease. But what really worries me right this minute is that I’m not going to find a cigarette.
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Mary, Mary, Act 3 (1961)More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/85369/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #marymary #addiction #cancer #cigarettes #health #nicotine #smoking
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Brad Pitt Can Have a Little Wine As a Treat, Apparently
Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/FIFA via Getty Images Brad Pitt, who only just last summer went on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert to talk about how amazing his sobriety journey has been, is back “off the wagon” (his words!) and “on the wine”…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #addiction #Beast #bradpitt #davidayer #INTERVIEWS #news #presstour #sobriety
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2764757/brad-pitt-can-have-a-little-wine-as-a-treat-apparently/ -
Brad Pitt Can Have a Little Wine As a Treat, Apparently
Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/FIFA via Getty Images Brad Pitt, who only just last summer went on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert to talk about how amazing his sobriety journey has been, is back “off the wagon” (his words!) and “on the wine”…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #addiction #Beast #bradpitt #davidayer #INTERVIEWS #news #presstour #sobriety
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2764757/brad-pitt-can-have-a-little-wine-as-a-treat-apparently/ -
Brad Pitt Can Have a Little Wine As a Treat, Apparently https://www.diningandcooking.com/2764757/brad-pitt-can-have-a-little-wine-as-a-treat-apparently/ #addiction #Beast #BradPitt #DavidAyer #INTERVIEWS #news #PressTour #sobriety #Wine
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Brad Pitt Can Have a Little Wine As a Treat, Apparently https://www.diningandcooking.com/2764757/brad-pitt-can-have-a-little-wine-as-a-treat-apparently/ #addiction #Beast #BradPitt #DavidAyer #INTERVIEWS #news #PressTour #sobriety #Wine
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Opioid deaths fell 20% last year — that's real progress, and it's not the finish line. Behind every number is a family that still grieves. What drove the decline? Treatment access, naloxone, communities showing up. The work continues as long as the disease does. #Addiction #Recovery #OverdosePrevention #PublicHealth
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Opioid deaths fell 20% last year — that's real progress, and it's not the finish line. Behind every number is a family that still grieves. What drove the decline? Treatment access, naloxone, communities showing up. The work continues as long as the disease does. #Addiction #Recovery #OverdosePrevention #PublicHealth
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Smartphones and the Jeux Absurdes
Reading Time: 3 minutesYears ago I noticed something. All of the games on iOS and Android that are promoted are crap. By this I mean that they have a very simple design. Complete a challenge, fail, watch an add, compete, win, watch an ad. Every single game makes you see an ad every few seconds.
These games aren’t especially good. They’re designed for infinite obsessive, absurd game play. Absurd because once you reach a level you fail again, and again, and again. The failure is intentional. It wants you to fail so that you pay to win. The pay to win model is flawed because in the end you fall into an absurd loop and you have to either pay to play, after watching dozens of ads, or pay money for boosts.
It’s worth knowing that if you force quit an app on android, and iOS you interrupt the ad and you get away with not watching them. These ads aren’t even good ads. They’re for crappy games that are too awful to be talked about with word of mouth. If a game is advertised in either store it is almost certain that the game play is the same.
These games are not designed for the beauty of a game. They are not designed for us to enjoy a game, and progress. These games are designed to short circuit our addiction centres to play for hours and hours, with little intellectual progress.
Clash of Clans and Hay Day might be pay to win, but at least they have a certain amount of game play, although I gave up on Clash of Clans years ago. I was tired of the constant story nagging. With Hay day I still tolerate the game.
The problem with Amaze Go and Loop Sort, among other games, is that they require only a little focus, so as you’re playing you can day dream and think about things. I’m at level 119 of Loop Sort and now, more and more often I overload the conveyor belt, and I have boosts that I can use to win, for free, but they’re limited, and if I use them then I am “paying” to win, rather than progress. You hit the “If you want to continue, you have to pay”.
I reached such a level with Hexa sort and deleted the game. These are games, to distract us for a few minutes, every now and then. When we start paying to pass a level we’re paying to win, and I refuse to pay to win. I’d rather pay to play, once.
It reminds me of the swimming pool pinball machine, and could draw a link to video game arcades of the past. In fact we could liken it to pub Fruit machines, where you pay, hope the icons line up, and get a payout. You pay a few centimes, or a few francs, and that’s how the game breaks even.
The problem, in my eyes is that these games, through pay to play, and pay to win are making honest grit and determination to win, less rational. Hypothetically it is using a random algorithm to see whether you win or lose, but with the pay to win games it feels as though they’re deliberately getting you to lose, to feel compelled to spend money.
That’s when you go from playing a game, to paying a game. That’s when the game slides into an irrational waste of time. That’s why I force quit when ads play.
It’s not that the games are brilliant fun to play. They’re just designed to generate revenue, without taking any time to consider user experience and game play.
In the end, my primary reason for force quitting the ads is that they’re for irrelevant crap. If they were for a quality product then I might be attentive, but if it’s to encourage me to download and play with yet another pay to win game, then I’m done.
#absurd #adSupported #addiction #games #iOS #waste -
Smartphones and the Jeux Absurdes
Reading Time: 3 minutesYears ago I noticed something. All of the games on iOS and Android that are promoted are crap. By this I mean that they have a very simple design. Complete a challenge, fail, watch an add, compete, win, watch an ad. Every single game makes you see an ad every few seconds.
These games aren’t especially good. They’re designed for infinite obsessive, absurd game play. Absurd because once you reach a level you fail again, and again, and again. The failure is intentional. It wants you to fail so that you pay to win. The pay to win model is flawed because in the end you fall into an absurd loop and you have to either pay to play, after watching dozens of ads, or pay money for boosts.
It’s worth knowing that if you force quit an app on android, and iOS you interrupt the ad and you get away with not watching them. These ads aren’t even good ads. They’re for crappy games that are too awful to be talked about with word of mouth. If a game is advertised in either store it is almost certain that the game play is the same.
These games are not designed for the beauty of a game. They are not designed for us to enjoy a game, and progress. These games are designed to short circuit our addiction centres to play for hours and hours, with little intellectual progress.
Clash of Clans and Hay Day might be pay to win, but at least they have a certain amount of game play, although I gave up on Clash of Clans years ago. I was tired of the constant story nagging. With Hay day I still tolerate the game.
The problem with Amaze Go and Loop Sort, among other games, is that they require only a little focus, so as you’re playing you can day dream and think about things. I’m at level 119 of Loop Sort and now, more and more often I overload the conveyor belt, and I have boosts that I can use to win, for free, but they’re limited, and if I use them then I am “paying” to win, rather than progress. You hit the “If you want to continue, you have to pay”.
I reached such a level with Hexa sort and deleted the game. These are games, to distract us for a few minutes, every now and then. When we start paying to pass a level we’re paying to win, and I refuse to pay to win. I’d rather pay to play, once.
It reminds me of the swimming pool pinball machine, and could draw a link to video game arcades of the past. In fact we could liken it to pub Fruit machines, where you pay, hope the icons line up, and get a payout. You pay a few centimes, or a few francs, and that’s how the game breaks even.
The problem, in my eyes is that these games, through pay to play, and pay to win are making honest grit and determination to win, less rational. Hypothetically it is using a random algorithm to see whether you win or lose, but with the pay to win games it feels as though they’re deliberately getting you to lose, to feel compelled to spend money.
That’s when you go from playing a game, to paying a game. That’s when the game slides into an irrational waste of time. That’s why I force quit when ads play.
It’s not that the games are brilliant fun to play. They’re just designed to generate revenue, without taking any time to consider user experience and game play.
In the end, my primary reason for force quitting the ads is that they’re for irrelevant crap. If they were for a quality product then I might be attentive, but if it’s to encourage me to download and play with yet another pay to win game, then I’m done.
#absurd #adSupported #addiction #games #iOS #waste -
“Wall Street sells stocks and bonds, but what it really peddles is hope”*…
sourceOver the last several decades retail investors had been eclipsed in the stock market by institutions (e.g., pension funds). But COVID and the economic environment that surrounded started a trend that is reversing that polarity. Retail investors now account for roughly 30% of daily US equity volume, according to Goldman Sachs. Their stock trading in May of this year ran 10% above the previous record, set during the January 2021 meme-stock frenzy, and June set another all time high.
Much of that growth has come from the individuals known as day traders.” And while for the last 18 months or so, institutional investors have been cautious, often underweight, under-levered and short of conviction, these active amateurs in the retail crowd did the opposite, buying the dips, riding momentum strategies, and adding leverage. Retail investors tend to follow the herd, as can be seen in the surge in popularity – and valuations – of meme stocks and artificial intelligence stocks in recent years.
While historical performance is no guarantee of future results, history is not encouraging. The most “generous” reputable study your correspondent could find suggested that roughly 20% of day traders were at least marginally profitable; the balance lost money. Other studies suggest that 95-97% of all day traders lose money.
But as Simone Foxman reports, money is not all that they lose…
Surging retail trading isn’t just transforming markets; it’s also highly correlated with demoralization in young men, according to a new study.
One-quarter of men aged 18-29 said they trade stocks daily, and almost two-thirds of them (64%) report feeling like failures, according to a study of 2,000 men published Wednesday by the Institute for Family Studies, a pro-marriage think tank. The findings were strikingly similar to outcomes among men who gamble: Of the 23% of young men who said they gambled daily, including on sports and events, 66% reported similar angst, according to survey, which asked the young men a variety of questions about their personal behaviors and outlooks. Daily fantasy sports and pornography use were similarly correlated to feelings of failure, the survey found.
The struggles of young men are generating growing alarm among academics, pundits and billionaires. They warn that men are lagging in education and employment, gambling with their financial health on sports or event betting platforms and facing mental health crises.
At the same time, the line between gambling and investing has been blurred. Stock volumes from retail investors have doubled over the past 15 years, and day traders have driven record options volume. Now platforms like Robinhood Markets Inc. and Interactive Brokers Group are trying to capitalize on interest from Gen Z by also offering event-betting alongside stock-trading.
Some research suggests young people have embraced risky financial behaviors to try to generate returns in a world where homeownership and other markers of financial success are out of reach. Eighty percent of Gen Z investors said they’d invested or considered investing in stocks, options, crypto or prediction markets because they feel financially behind and see these investments as better tools to meet their financial goals, according to a Northwestern Mutual study.
The IFS researchers hypothesized that day trading, gambling, playing fantasy sports and porn use — among other activities — may be both coping mechanisms for dejection, stress and loneliness and also exacerbate them. Young men who engaged in these activities less than daily were about half as likely to report feelings of demoralization.
Overall, 42% of survey respondents said the statement “all in all, I am inclined to think that I am a failure,” described them very or somewhat well. This feeling was particularly strong among men without college degrees and those who were neither employed nor in school.
A quarter of participants said they felt lonely all of the time, while 30% expressed feeling that way some of the time.
The study also found disillusionment with the American dream, even as young men fostered high hopes for the future. Seven in ten respondents said that success is more a matter of who you know than ability or hard work, but 84% still said they had ambitious plans for their futures.
Further to the passing reference to “event-betting” above, we should note that prediction markets, while smaller than retail investing (at least for now), are growing explosively. Like day-trading, prediction markets are pitched in the language of empowerment and democratization. The former involves stocks and bonds, while the latter sells “event contracts“; but they share the same user base, the same psychological architecture, and the same uncomfortable gap between how they are marketed and what they actually deliver… so seem likely to contribute to the issues unpacked above.
Risky business: “Some 64% of Young Men Day Trading Stocks Feel Like Failures” (or here) from @simonefoxman.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com.
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As we parse symptoms and diseases, we might recall that it was on this date in 1966 that the U.S. Treasury Department, citing a lack of demand, ceased production of the $2 bill, which had been around in various forms since 1862. The (redesigned) denomination, featuring a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, was reintroduced in 1976… though readers will be forgiven if they mistakenly thought that “the deuce” was still retired: so few are in circulation that they are rarely encountered.
The first $2 bill, a Legal Tender Note (United States Note) with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton in profile view- in contrast to the familiar portrait in use on the $10 bill since 1928 (source) #addiction #AlexanderHamilton #culture #currency #dayTrading #Depression #finance #history #investment #loneliness #predictionMarkets #Psychology #retailInvesting #stocks #ThomasJefferson #twoDollarBill #USTreasury -
“Wall Street sells stocks and bonds, but what it really peddles is hope”*…
sourceOver the last several decades retail investors had been eclipsed in the stock market by institutions (e.g., pension funds). But COVID and the economic environment that surrounded started a trend that is reversing that polarity. Retail investors now account for roughly 30% of daily US equity volume, according to Goldman Sachs. Their stock trading in May of this year ran 10% above the previous record, set during the January 2021 meme-stock frenzy, and June set another all time high.
Much of that growth has come from the individuals known as day traders.” And while for the last 18 months or so, institutional investors have been cautious, often underweight, under-levered and short of conviction, these active amateurs in the retail crowd did the opposite, buying the dips, riding momentum strategies, and adding leverage. Retail investors tend to follow the herd, as can be seen in the surge in popularity – and valuations – of meme stocks and artificial intelligence stocks in recent years.
While historical performance is no guarantee of future results, history is not encouraging. The most “generous” reputable study your correspondent could find suggested that roughly 20% of day traders were at least marginally profitable; the balance lost money. Other studies suggest that 95-97% of all day traders lose money.
But as Simone Foxman reports, money is not all that they lose…
Surging retail trading isn’t just transforming markets; it’s also highly correlated with demoralization in young men, according to a new study.
One-quarter of men aged 18-29 said they trade stocks daily, and almost two-thirds of them (64%) report feeling like failures, according to a study of 2,000 men published Wednesday by the Institute for Family Studies, a pro-marriage think tank. The findings were strikingly similar to outcomes among men who gamble: Of the 23% of young men who said they gambled daily, including on sports and events, 66% reported similar angst, according to survey, which asked the young men a variety of questions about their personal behaviors and outlooks. Daily fantasy sports and pornography use were similarly correlated to feelings of failure, the survey found.
The struggles of young men are generating growing alarm among academics, pundits and billionaires. They warn that men are lagging in education and employment, gambling with their financial health on sports or event betting platforms and facing mental health crises.
At the same time, the line between gambling and investing has been blurred. Stock volumes from retail investors have doubled over the past 15 years, and day traders have driven record options volume. Now platforms like Robinhood Markets Inc. and Interactive Brokers Group are trying to capitalize on interest from Gen Z by also offering event-betting alongside stock-trading.
Some research suggests young people have embraced risky financial behaviors to try to generate returns in a world where homeownership and other markers of financial success are out of reach. Eighty percent of Gen Z investors said they’d invested or considered investing in stocks, options, crypto or prediction markets because they feel financially behind and see these investments as better tools to meet their financial goals, according to a Northwestern Mutual study.
The IFS researchers hypothesized that day trading, gambling, playing fantasy sports and porn use — among other activities — may be both coping mechanisms for dejection, stress and loneliness and also exacerbate them. Young men who engaged in these activities less than daily were about half as likely to report feelings of demoralization.
Overall, 42% of survey respondents said the statement “all in all, I am inclined to think that I am a failure,” described them very or somewhat well. This feeling was particularly strong among men without college degrees and those who were neither employed nor in school.
A quarter of participants said they felt lonely all of the time, while 30% expressed feeling that way some of the time.
The study also found disillusionment with the American dream, even as young men fostered high hopes for the future. Seven in ten respondents said that success is more a matter of who you know than ability or hard work, but 84% still said they had ambitious plans for their futures.
Further to the passing reference to “event-betting” above, we should note that prediction markets, while smaller than retail investing (at least for now), are growing explosively. Like day-trading, prediction markets are pitched in the language of empowerment and democratization. The former involves stocks and bonds, while the latter sells “event contracts“; but they share the same user base, the same psychological architecture, and the same uncomfortable gap between how they are marketed and what they actually deliver… so seem likely to contribute to the issues unpacked above.
Risky business: “Some 64% of Young Men Day Trading Stocks Feel Like Failures” (or here) from @simonefoxman.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com.
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As we parse symptoms and diseases, we might recall that it was on this date in 1966 that the U.S. Treasury Department, citing a lack of demand, ceased production of the $2 bill, which had been around in various forms since 1862. The (redesigned) denomination, featuring a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, was reintroduced in 1976… though readers will be forgiven if they mistakenly thought that “the deuce” was still retired: so few are in circulation that they are rarely encountered.
The first $2 bill, a Legal Tender Note (United States Note) with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton in profile view- in contrast to the familiar portrait in use on the $10 bill since 1928 (source) #addiction #AlexanderHamilton #culture #currency #dayTrading #Depression #finance #history #investment #loneliness #predictionMarkets #Psychology #retailInvesting #stocks #ThomasJefferson #twoDollarBill #USTreasury -
Adderall vs. Meth: Shocking Similarities!
Uncover the shocking truth about Adderall! We discuss its controversial effects and compare it to meth, sharing real experiences and cautionary tales. Is Adderall truly as dangerous as some claim? Join our insightful conversation to learn more.
Follow @biohackingpathway for more
#Adderall #Meth #ADHDmedication #DrugControversy #PrescriptionDrugs #MentalHealth #Addiction #SubstanceAbuse #HealthDiscussion #ControversialTopics
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Adderall vs. Meth: Shocking Similarities!
Uncover the shocking truth about Adderall! We discuss its controversial effects and compare it to meth, sharing real experiences and cautionary tales. Is Adderall truly as dangerous as some claim? Join our insightful conversation to learn more.
Follow @biohackingpathway for more
#Adderall #Meth #ADHDmedication #DrugControversy #PrescriptionDrugs #MentalHealth #Addiction #SubstanceAbuse #HealthDiscussion #ControversialTopics
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New federal data just dropped: daily marijuana use has surpassed daily cigarette smoking AND daily alcohol use in the US for the first time. 21.4 million daily users, up 21% in three years. The addiction patterns are starting to look like tobacco — concentrated among heavy, habitual users. Legal doesn't mean harmless. The disease model doesn't take a holiday just because a substance became legal.
#Addiction #Recovery #SAMHSA #PublicHealth #DiseaseModel -
New federal data just dropped: daily marijuana use has surpassed daily cigarette smoking AND daily alcohol use in the US for the first time. 21.4 million daily users, up 21% in three years. The addiction patterns are starting to look like tobacco — concentrated among heavy, habitual users. Legal doesn't mean harmless. The disease model doesn't take a holiday just because a substance became legal.
#Addiction #Recovery #SAMHSA #PublicHealth #DiseaseModel -
Ofc, I am at least a triple or quadruple threat, being a paranoid schizophrenic, AuDHD afflicted, polysubstance user and addict. Fun times!
#mentalhealth
#neurodivergent
#neurospicy
#drugs
#addiction
#triplethreat
#psychosis
#recovery
#currentstateofaffairs
