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Cake day: January 28th, 2022

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  • It didn’t surprise me that these passed, given the recent passage of a sweeping justice reform where cop oversight was removed and they were authorized to use drones and received a bunch of funding. But I am quite sad that it finally did get overturned - I saw it on nearly every ballot for the last several years; the Republicans were desperate to overturn it. I really hated that every time they wanted to tie the removal of theft and the removal of drug charges at the same time. Now we’re back to a state where many decriminalized drugs are criminal again, calling into question weird conflicts such as the sale of certain mushrooms in Oakland being legal but possession no longer.














  • Yes, antidepressants are not considered addictive by the same big pharma companies who told us that Oxycodone was not totally fine.

    No, I’m talking about how researchers, who do not have conflicts of interest, have to say about these drugs.

    What is the difference between a physical dependence and addiction?

    Googling this will give you plenty of pages drawing the distinction between the two. For example, here’s a webmd article on the difference. In short, it’s meaningful to draw clear distinctions and definitions around where an urge is coming from. Withdrawing from a substance does not necessarily mean you desire the substance. Taking the substance to avoid withdrawal symptoms might happen because you wish to avoid the negative symptoms, and treating the symptoms could be enough to get someone off the substance causing problems. Addiction, on the other hand, is characterized by a strong desire to continue drug use despite the ways in which it is negatively affecting one’s life. It is possible for addiction and physical dependence to have overlap (and for many drugs this is common) but they are mutually exclusive - one does not necessarily imply the other and the presence of one does not mean there is the presence of the other.

    If they aren’t addictive, but cause the same withdrawal symptoms which result from addiction, in some cases severely, then what should we call them?

    While withdrawal symptoms can vary with the nature of addiction, one does not need to be addicted to experience withdrawal symptoms. Many common, non-addictive chemicals have withdrawal symptoms. Nearly every drug has some kind of withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal symptoms are the direct biological consequences of a human changing their equilibrium with the addition of or removal of an exogenous substance or the regular use of said substance and the long-term biological changes it can have on one’s body.


    At a high level, I would highly suggest you educating yourself on drug dependence and recovery as well as the psychology of addiction. These are high level basic concepts which are taught to you in any human-centered biology and psychology coursework.


  • Sold my old car a few weeks ago. Finally got a new (used) car last Friday. I’m so glad for it to no longer be consuming some of my brains processing power in the background constantly.

    I had a very slutty weekend, which was satisfying. I think I’m in heat. I think I’ve been in heat a lot the last few months. I wish I had a solution to this. Being slutty didn’t really seem to solve the horny, although it was a nice outlet.