Comments by "" (@MeanBeanComedy) on "LA's Homeless Problem u0026 Mental Health w/Justin Martindale | Joe Rogan" video.

  1. What worries me about the withdrawal to the medication is that many times, people could overcome those issues with therapy BEFORE they started taking medication, but after they stop, they're hooked for life.
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  2.  @IlNeon86ll  No, it doesn't. Neglect of hygiene does. All meth does is make you salivate less and make bad decisions and ignore health. The same could be said for any mental health issue or drug addiction, save the less salivation point.
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  3. Ehhh, it passes through most people's minds in their 20s before going dormant until their 50s or 60s.
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  4. Ignore that guy. Life is precious.
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  5. That's fantastic. It's wonderful to see what some care can do for people.
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  6.  @Silverfirefly1  Exactly! Glad someone else here is saying it. For some reason, everyone thinks the drug just makes teeth vanish.
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  7. Benzodiazepines aren't usually first line of treatment for anxiety. SSRIs are.
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  8. An SSRI, TCA, or even worse, SNRI.
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  9.  @TheSlideshowtube  No, policies that incentivize people who are homeless to live there. Some of it is zoning, some of it is legislation that make involuntary committal illegal, a drug war that makes it more difficult to seek treatment and get ahold of your drug use, (etc.) Lots of places have nice weather. That's an asinine argument.
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  10.  @TheSlideshowtube  Where did I say that?
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  11.  Picolas Cage  ah, do you know of any by name? I'm quite interested in this!
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  12.  @ChadKirk  he's ideologically possessed. He lost his empathy a whole ago.
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  13.  @LAisamazzzzzing  Yeah, if you don't have any empathy, locking people in cages or killing them seems like a great idea. Those of us who aren't sociopaths are left to brainstorm some better ideas.
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  14. It's not just a funding issue. There were activist movements in the latter 20th century campaigning against psychiatric committing policies on account of them being "inhumane." Even now, if you polled people, you'd see many folks think the idea of a mentally unwell person being forcefully committed is wrong. It's a tricky subject.
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  15.  @imjustaguy8232  Personal experience doesn't beat science. You had scurvy because you weren't eating a balanced diet. Or some other malady.
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  16.  @imjustaguy8232  Anytime, Lloyd.
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  17.  @Kewrock  it's almost always the mental health issue causing the drug problem. You can pretend like she was fine and just took "one hit of drug !!1" all you like, but she was likely fucked in the head through no fault of her own and was doomed to fail. That's why the drugs she may or may not have even taken would have messed her up. That's also why the vast majority of people who do use drugs don't have these problems. Your archaic view of how drugs work and how addiction works is why you can't see this.
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  18. @The Muckler Are psychologists and researchers "businesses who profit off of addicts?" Mental illness and drug dependence is as much of a choice as pancreatic cancer. The drug use is just a symptom.
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  19.  @Mike-zu1md  Who's destroying their lives for profit? Do you have more info on the homeless-industrial complex?
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  20.  @1flash3571  You don't become dependent on a drug without mental instability being present first. That's why heroin has a dependence rate (capture rate) of 23%. Most people who use it don't get addicted. The people that do are already messed up. You can pretend all you like that they were fine beforehand, but if you want to keep pretending that, you'd better do your damnedest to avoid reading ANYTHING on the subject, lest that cognitive dissonance give you a sore brain. I also recommend the Johann Hari episode mentioned previously in thread.
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  21.  @Kewrock  I don't disagree about the "homelessness-industrial complex" (which is a neologism I think Colion Noir coined in his research into San Fran specifically, but you're right about that. I also don't disagree about drug companies not disclosing issues. They don't discuss SSRI suicide risk OR the high risk of sexual disfunction, they don't disclose the potential harms of 5α-Reductase Inhibitors (sexual disfunction and suicide), and remember the NSAIDs and heart attacks issue? Oysh! I'd recommend checking out Pro Pública to see both how much money your doc made from kickbacks, and what sorts of medication he or she prescribed. Their data only covers Medicare/Medicaid prescriptions, though, but that should be enough to give you a general idea. I don't remember what this thread was about, so that's all I got. Cheers! 😁👍🏻
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  22.  Vantum Noir  I think you don't really understand wealth, value, and prices. You're not going to "fix" the "homeless issue" with money people are spending on purchases.
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  23.  @infiddle_8810 It's still a medical issue that can be caused my imbalances of Serotonin, GABA, Dopamine, Epinephrine, or Norepinephrine. There's a reason why no one who researches this medical condition decides "deal with your shit" is a solution. CBT can help as an adjunct to psychiatric treatment, but to say all is needed is "deal with it" is woefully uninformed.
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  24. It's bureaucracy. They're unelected officials making these policies.
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  25.  @AT-cy9uh  I've been trying to find reliable evidence for the "shipping them on buses to LA or SF" claim and can't find anything my that meets my friend's levels of doubt. Any sources I can use?
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