Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Hitler on drugs - Forgotten History" video.

"Just say no to drugs" was a phrase coined by Nancy, Ronald Reagan's cute but dumb wife. To kids on the street it made about as much sense as telling them to eat soil. Back then I was with the YMCA who ran programmes for street kids. Some kids had lives so messed up, with abusive parents, that leaving home and getting into drugs was the most positive thing they had ever done. For others, peer pressure far outweighed any dumb thing a politician or politician's wife could say.
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@kennethtyree4770 I didn't say the folks on drugs were cute. I said Nancy Reagan was cute. You do know there was a President Reagan in the 1980's?
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@Treaxvour Back when I was with the YMCA, we found that not all drugged out customers were getting their drugs on the street from a pusher. Some had heard on the street that if you go to a doctor and tell him certain symptoms, that would indicate a lot of pain due to a disease for which there was no blood test and did not show on an X-Ray. So the doctor would prescribe a narcotic, trusting that the patient was honest. These days, such diseases can be detected on CAT scans etc , but not then. These legit medical conditions practically never occur in young people, but they would find a doctor who lacked ethics and would prescribe the drug. Typically these doctors had poor diagnostic skills or some other facet that meant normal patients would steer clear of them. We came to hear about one elderly lady doctor located north of the city centre at this time who over time had quite a large cliental of drugged out kids. She had no receptionist - probably the last one quit in disgust. Kids were going every day and getting prescriptions for morphine under different names. She charged a low fee, relying on volume. When numerous street kids told us about her, we called the police, but they told us they had no power to investigate and arrest a doctor, go tell the AMA. We told the AMA but they told us it wasn't their problem. After some time, I thought of a solution. I called the news desk of a TV station. The news editor said "We''ll get her" and sent a young cadet reporter, dressed scruffy and with a tiny camera hidden in her handbag. She gave a false name, recited the right symptoms, and in one minute walked out with a prescription for morphine. That evening the TV station broadcast the footage and shamed the quack into retiring. This is exactly the situation with Hitler and his Doctor Morell. He had access to other doctors, but he just wanted to get high and made a quack who would give him want he wanted his personal doctor. Hitler was not stupid, he probably was well aware Morell was an unethical quack.
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@valerietaylor9615 Nancy was dumb alright. She believed in astrology and continually paid money for horoscopes, and is known to have consulted at last one psychic. She was sucked in by a classic psychic con - claims of having predicted a well known event, the claim made after the event. Ronnie was a good delegator. At least he didn't become senile until AFTER he retired, unlike Bumbling Biden or the Dreadful Donald, neither of whom know which way is up.
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