#barbiturates

[milwaukeemilf]

Under dosed and ready to fall.

[forensicfield]

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[rubecso]

I've been on one of my regular excursions down a JSTOR rabbit hole lately, mostly researching 1920s psychiatric medicine for a character. Sometimes when you're reading a bunch of papers about a narrow topic, you'll find yourself encountering specific names more than once.

In this case, it's Sir Maurice Craig.

I first encountered this guy when I read a bunch of letters back and forth to the British Medical Journal. It starts with Maurice writing in saying "Barbiturates are totally not addictive, I give them to all my patients with no problems."

Now you might be tempted to say "Oh well they probably all thought that back then, they didn't know better."

Nope! There follows a flurry of responses from other doctors saying “Uhhh, I don't think so mate.” One of them sarcastically points out that if Sir Craig has never tried reducing his patients’ doses, he might not have realised they were addicted. 

This is met by response after response from Maurice telling them they were wrong. 

I then later spot his name mentioned in a conference on treating insomnia, where he said “Look guys, even if barbiturates are addictive, insomnia is way worse.”

And then today, I find him again, speaking at a meeting of (wait for it) the National Temperance League. 

Maurice: “Alcohol is bad cause it's addictive.”

Uh huh, yes that tracks. 

Maurice: “Which is why everyone should take barbiturates instead!”

Okay Maurice, you lost me there. 

And just to confirm that this was very much not the universal medical opinion at the time, there's another doctor at the same meeting who's recorded as saying pretty much that.

I can't tell if he was just really stubborn or getting some kind of kickback from the drugs manufacturers,but either way wherever he went Sir Maurice Craig was saying “THESE DRUGS ARE AWESOME”, followed by a small crowd of his peers doing their best to correct him.

[toruandmidori]

BARBITURATES!

The feel nothing hit of the summer. 

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[jbfly46]

The pharmaceutical industry took away the only non-permanent forms of a lobotomy that kept America sane. Quaaludes, barbiturates, and liberal prescriptions of benzodiazepines, but you can still get a lobotomy. It’s not big pharma’s fault you didn’t read the part of package insert about drug interactions.

[kadunud]

[bjaranyi]

A couple of cannibals were at their local watering hole and one of them ate a girl at the bar. After he he turned to his friend saying he was high as a kite.

- His friend replied, “That was a bar bitch you ate��

[king-galaxius]

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[jblareink]

[milwaukeemilf]

[villainessbian]

it sucks having autism and ADHD because I want to listen to you infodumping, I'm extremely interested in what you have to say to me and what makes you excited, but midway through the conversation my brain will go

can't read my, can't read my, no they can't read my poker face COME ON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY can't read my, can't read my, no they can't read my poker face COME ON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY

[gowns]

the funny thing is that i am nearly THIRTY SIX YEARS OLD but because i am 5 feet tall with a little cherub face i routinely get treated like how i got treated at the yoga studio today... people are always like "can i get anything for you sweetie?" and calling me precious or adorable... i'm like judy garland over here

[toruandmidori]

BARBITURATES!

Get ready for numb girl summer. 

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[cenotune]

South Park AU but it’s just the North Hollywood shootout and I assign the boys to real people who were at the event (disclaimer that only the shooters died, and only the truck driver and cops were injured)

Cartman as Larry Phillips Jr

Butters as Emil Mǎtǎsǎreanu

Kyle as the truck driver who got a face full of glass

Tweek as “HELLO 911 THERES A MADMAN AT MY DOOR AND HES GOT A FACE FULL OF GLASS”

List goes on, it’s an elaborate tale

[worshipfulmercy]

i have so many thoughts about his gender and how he's kind of textually a woman and/or abinary (read tags if interested)

[trashfire-nia]

⚠️ [MDZS spoilers] Jiang Cheng's clarity

JC's ending is one of my favorite scenes in the last book:

JC's decision not to call after Wei Wuxian is him seeing his shixiong clearly for the first time.

Prior to this moment, JC had raged about Wei Wuxian's supposed arrogance for not telling anyone about the golden core sacrifice. He'd said very ugly and hurtful things as a reaction, which I think was a very necessary purge of the very poisons his sword was named after (anger, ignorance, and greed). His character consistently has difficulty letting go of grudges and perceived slights; everything was a competition of honor and capability to JC, so it didn't occur to him that compassion that comes with great personal cost would come so naturally to WWX. As a result, he tries to parse the source of his hatred and anger:

Here JC is wondering out loud: Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you trust me enough to let me know? Not realizing that WWX not saying anything was also his way of protecting JC's honor.

And eventually, JC, does realize this, when he parallels luring away the Wens with WWX's sacrifice. After being so angry about WWX not saying anything, he sees that there was really no need. He understands that his long standing hatred for WWX was irrational after all, and after being horrified by his guilt and resentment, however JC chooses to treat WWX hereafter, it is now with bittersweet clarity. He finally learns to let his shixiong go.