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PeakTrader:

I think, if Benjamin lived in a village, long ago, where everyone believed the world is flat and someone presented evidence the world may be round, he’d at least consider it, while other villagers would be horrified, strongly cling to their ancient beliefs, and make voodoo dolls to attack the messenger.

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Sanjay Gupta is one of the villagers, who leaps to conclusions with very little information, and will fall back and change his mind again if he learns of more.

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Jon, I wouldn’t make a conclusion with so little information, like Sanjay Gupta.

You should know better, because you haven’t been able to dispute anything I said. Instead, I’ve either proved you wrong or revealed the ignorance of your beliefs.

Yet, you cling to the same old conclusion, you made with so little information, and refuse to change your position, no matter how much new information is revealed to you.

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The article explains the drug was produced in government factories, initially, to export to China and other countries for hard currencies.

However, it backfired.

The epidemic started with government workers, including the police, and spread to the rest of the North Korean population quickly, within a few years.

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Also, I may add, does legalization and very strict regulation work? I heard, there’s massive abuse with legal and tightly regulated painkillers. For example:

“…a strong case that opioid drugs used to treat chronic pain, like OxyContin, not only are addictive and deadly but often don’t work for many people who use them and lead to a range of additional health problems.

The number of annual overdose deaths from narcotic painkillers has grown four times higher than it was a decade ago. The current statistic is that about 16,000 people a year die of overdoses involving prescription narcotics.

For instance, back pain is probably the leading workplace injury. What insurers and workers’ comp agencies are discovering is that when workers are treated with high doses of opioid drugs fairly soon after these injuries, it’s the leading predictor for them not coming back to work for long periods of time, or ever.”

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/the-problem-with-pain-pills/?_r=1

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PeakTrader:

The media does a fine job putting lipstick on this pig.

Consequently, “the masses” aren’t even aware we’re in a deep depression (since mid-’09, when the Bush recession ended) U.S. per capita real income is $6,000 a year lower than it should be.

So, there’s no clamoring for pro-growth policies, to unleash the economy and pull us out of depression.

And, there’s been no outrage about the additional $1 trillion a year of ineffective federal spending, along with counterproductive policies.

Our economic policy is stay the course and hope.

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