Heroin overdose cure: It exists, but how do you get it?

[Aractus]

You clearly haven't understood my post. "I knew a guy..." derp.

LP you are actually right about me (partially anyway) - I think the majority of people are unbelievably stupid. I think that smokers do not actually believe that smoking causes cancer. I think that overweight and obese people do not actually believe that it causes cancer, diabetes, heart disease and strokes. And I think that drug users do not believe in the dangers of drug use - until it actually happens to them.

I'm not arguing at all that I don't think people are stupid. But where you are wrong is that I don't that I'm a better person that others. I may think I'm a healthier person, but I don't think I'm better than anyone. I have exactly the same ability to make the wrong choices in life that everyone else has. I face challenges other people don't, other people face challenges I don't have to face. And given the circumstance I can be as stupid as anyone else. So I do take exception to being labelled that way.

I think that health is very important, and obviously other people disagree and think it's less important. While I was on holiday I wrote the drafts for an additional 4 or 5 blogs on the subject, and when I can home last week I discovered that the fan in my PC's PSU had died (I still have to get another one, but I swapped it out for one in a different PC). Then today I had the perfect idea for a blog on health, I opened word to see what the last draft I wrote before going on holiday had only to discover I'd managed to delete it and then save it, but it didn't matter because I knew exactly what I wanted to write on today. And thus I titled it "normal health is dangerous and unhealthy!" and then spent a couple of hours writing it (from scratch it isn't based on any of my existing drafts).

Now let's backtrack a little bit, while on holiday I watched an episode of "Biggest Looser". I don't have much respect for most reality shows and typically avoid them, and yes when I watched it I found it funny as hell to see obese people being forced to exercise this is obviously what the show aims to provoke and is integral to its success! However, although it might be fun to laugh at, a lot of it was actually very offensive and some of it made my blood boil. I saw the trainer say to one of the fatties "you know you can never succeed on the outside thus you have to fight to stay here on the show" - well I was mortified when I saw that!

You know it's actually systems like theirs that are largely ineffective because they do for health exactly the same thing that happens for other people in the real world (rehab etc) - "you have a problem so come to our isolated environment, we'll fix it and then release you back to your environment". It's basically Dr Phil's whole un un-holistic philosophy. What people actually need is targeted assistance at their location in their own home in their own environment, this is how you get people to healthier long-term. And it works for overweight people, addicts, people with ED's like anorexia, alcoholics, drug addicts etc and it works better then the isolated rehab style centres emulated by that fucking stupid show I mentioned last paragraph. It's the reason why a 12-step program works better than rehab.

So yes I do care, but I also have limits and I'm not interested in hearing people perpetually making excuses in self-denial, nor in seeing people exploit that denial for their own advantage.