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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by shapefrog on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:32PM (#28622126)
> people's trust in mainstream medicine

Mainstream medicine says it is incredibly addictive with an incredibly low lethal dose.

People like to get high, a lot. Probably second only to triggering the libs / whatever the lib version is.

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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by rory on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:53PM (#28622402)
> In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid pain relievers and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates.

> Increased prescription of opioid medications led to widespread misuse of both prescription and non-prescription opioids before it became clear that these medications could indeed be highly addictive.

I assumed this was well-known.

https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html

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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by shapefrog on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:31PM (#28622862)
> The Opium Wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century.

I assumed this was well-known.

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