cjorgensen

cancer

Holy shit. It's worse than cancer. Three pop-unders, an automatic download, an interstitial, like a third of the real estate is ads, and you can't tell what is actual content. I feel violated.

First, sorry for your loss.

Here's what always frustrates me with these stories:

The "opioid crisis" is often a huge conflation of drugs. The article states the crisis is often basically a three act play; legitimate painkillers, switch to heroin, illicit drugs being adulterated with substances like fentanyl.

So seems to me that the real problem is that we deny people what they really want. Access to prescription opioids. In every story I read that's where this starts, but maybe the solution is to allow continued access to the initial drug. Or, in the absence of that, insure people can get unadulterated heroin.

I suffer from chronic pain, and I can't get anything to knock the pain levels down. Doctors are no so reluctant to prescribe anything that would help.

I live in a state where marijuana is illegal. It's been shown to help with pain, and it's also been shown to be an exit drug from opioids. People use it to move away from heavier narcotics, and in states where it is legal, such death have gone down (having initial access to something other than an opiate and having something as an alternative to turning to heroin are both obvious factors as to why).

So my question: Do you support the legalization of marijuana at a national level? Or do you support any sort of controlled treatment of addicts where continued access to the opioids are allowed? Also, what do you think people with legitimate needs for painkillers should do?

$10k is my floor. I wouldn't be embarrassed about that. It's liquid and you can cover major expenses without a credit card. I try not to let my account get below that. That's not too much to have sitting in the bank.

My point is your shouldn't feel embarrassed for having that there. It's a fine number to have. Now just make a plan for additional money and don't let that account get any higher. Don't let it go lower either. If it dips below $10k then make a point to pay that back. Having access to that kind of liquid cash will save you more than you could earn on it. Need a new transmission? You got it. Furnace? You got it. Lose your job? You get to eat until you find a new one.

You don't want to park that in the market, since if something bad happens you might be forced to draw it back out at a loss. It's a nice sum to have access to.

Could it be that no one likes the music?