"Antabuse can lead to death or dangerous health problems."
So can a slew of other drugs. You should see the drug risks for stuff folks take for autoimmune disorders. It isn't just up to the doctor to mitigate the risks: Patients must do their part as well (blood tests and so on).
And most importantly: So can alcoholism. Alcoholism kills slowly. Withdrawal can kill not-so-slowly. Somehow, do you think the doctor is not responsible for refusing help when the alternative risks include death as well?
That said, I'm not a doctor and there are generally (but not always) good reasons to avoid a drug or another. The risk of drugs by itself usually isn't it, though, as it depends on effectiveness compared to other drugs/methods and comparing the risk of cure to the risk of continued disease.
Sorry if you already know this, but the difference with disulfiram/Antabuse is that these side effects are intentional and are supposed to act as a deterrent to consuming alcohol. The fact that it can kill you if you mix it with booze is why people take it, as far as I understand it
Dr. isn't legally liable if they act within the norms of the profession with with informed consent. Almost any drug can cause death or dangerous health problems.
You are right with your observations.
The root cause are mental health disorders like depression.
There is no fast working anti-depressant like alcohol.
People try to solve their problems in the short path with it, it works, but in the long run, the problems coming back even more severe.
Untreated disorders will be amplified like abuse, depression etc.
But its understandable people try alcohol first, until therapy and medication works, its a hard time.
I am an alcoholic myself, sober for five months now after a long-term therapy.
I am sceptical about taking meds for this desease. The change of life and coping with stress is the best way to avoid getting in relapse of use.
The therapists said meds might be a help, but are not the solution.
Its a trap for the dependant who might think now hes cured and does not find himself changing his life and solving problems which have caused the desease.
I was working in IT and have now time to change, i will be working in a less stressful job and will undergo further treatment of depression and narcicisstic personalty disorder i suffer.
In the long run, alcoholism can be avoided by selling it only in special stores, people need more knowledge about it and society itself must be more aware how dangerous alcohol is.
I live in bavaria,germany. I can purchase hard liqour around the clock and in amounts with no limit. Its cheap and i have no problem with the people around me.
The drinking culture makes it possible to be offerd a beer to almost every occasion. Sure the openly and public drinking in broad daylight is some kind of awkward, but people dont take it too serious.
We have no laws exept driving cars or being drunk at the workplace.
But well, meds can help a bit to get someone stable enough be treatabel for a long term therapy, but a cure, they are not.
The nucleus accumbens has stored the associative information that drinking can help with insomnia, depression and makes live a bit easier.
To get rid of this is a long and hard way, the most is done by undergo treatment, self help groups and finding new hobbies or something replacing the habits that led before to the addiction.
Multiple studies have shown that alcohol sits in the top two of most destructive harddrugs for both the user and the user's surrounding. And still we can buy it everywhere.
I don't think evidence supports the idea that selling alcohol in special stores will avoid alcoholism. Hard drug users go to much more trouble than visiting a special store, and their numbers remain significant despite a variety of efforts to make access to hard drugs prohibited.
Yes it does show precisely that. Norway and Sweden has this arrangement. Richer alcoholics plan and hoard alcohol in their house and poorer alcoholics are severely limited by the firm opening hours and marketing-ban on alcohol and tobacco.
Interestingingly in Norway and Sweden the alcohol stores are also nationalised, run by the government.
I have multiple family members that are struggling or have recovered/have been sober for an extended amount of time.
In Central Europe and other places drinking is incredibly ingrained into social mechanics, making it very hard to quit or stay sober.
Personally I still like to drink on occasion, but seeing the amount of damage alcholics do to themselves and the people around them has really opened my eyes.
Even worse, some people see recovered alcoholics as „weak“ (because they „can’t handle their drinks“)… nothing could be farther from the truth.
Even though I’m a libertarian at heart, I really wish the government would restrict alcohol sales so you don’t have to face shelves full of booze when you shop for groceries.
Send them a copy of "1984" or, i am not familiar with chromebooks, set a bios/boot-password or something so if they want install anything, they have to ask for permission.
I kinda find it helpless to monitor kids activities instead of talking to them, explaining where the dangers are.
They will continue under a new name and description.
The success to this day is not remarkable.
That software has not stopped criminals like Olaf Scholz and his buddies, nor has it protect a mayor of a city that was killed in his own house.
So, its useless and unethical to think to automate prosecution.
Too many false-positives and a bad success rate is not and can not be the goal to break basic rights.
The real criminals are not the weed dealers next door and not the dumb neo-fascists, they gather everyday in the parlaments with their shady double income, their wrongdoings and promises broken every day.
For what that software has brough revenue, the victims of the flood this summer, would enjoy golden handrails and faucets in their newly built homes.
Anyone remember when democracy actually meant that the representatives of the people were chosen among the ordinary people themselves? While now we elect members of the elite to act as our representatives and we're shocked when we find out they actually represent the elite, instead of us, and are entangled in very complex and shady forms of corruption, bribery, tax evasion, insider trading and cronyism?
Who could have expected that? /s It's like sheep electing flock leaders among a pack of wolves. When will we stop doing that?
> … advocated the initiation of a mandatory blockage of child pornography on the Internet through service providers via a block list maintained by the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (BKA), thus creating the necessary infrastructure for extensive censorship of websites deemed illegal by the BKA.
It is suspected that he is involved with the Cum-Ex scandal, but to what extent remains unknown.
He made very questionable (non-)statements in that regard though.
> To my knowledge dealing with drugs is still illegal in Germany. So I hope the police would do something against weed dealers and consumers.
That does not follow - there are many things that are illegal put are not expected to be proactively investigated or stopped by the police except when carrying out a court order.
> You might read, that I am cynical regarding politics in my country
Anyone who trades with slavers lost his credibility. Everyone trading with warlords as well.
Either the Greens are a party of values (I don't have to share those) or they are a party of opportunists.
There are shades of grey. I attest to that. But being a pacifist and a humanist I can't accept dealing with either one (Putin as a war mongering statesman or the Qatar government embracing slavery as a Form of doing business).
When the Greens agreed for Germany to take part in an unconstitutional war in former Yugoslavia I was aghast. Nowadays I see it more differentiated. There was no way to ensure an UN peace mission. And we could either stand by an watch genocide or act.
There are other options now than to throw money at slavers imho. That's why I am being cynical.
Oh look, $method didn't stop $crimes where it is not relevant. Not surprising.
> The real criminals are not the weed dealers next door and not the dumb neo-fascists, they gather everyday in the parlaments with their shady double income, their wrongdoings and promises broken every day.
Weed dealers given the current legislation are commiting a crime. One of the biggest gifts to the lack of prosecution of higher politicians are the infighting between smaller "liberal" parties. And their general naivity
Are the people that are opposed to this happy when adversaries have hacked Germany?
You're free to protest at the nearest Extinction Even protest and pretend the "green's" anti-nuclear push has nothing to do with the latest events
btw "criminals like him (O.S.)"? sounds like either an AfD apologist or Linke supporter.
The internet has become from being a source of information to a marketplace everyone wants to make a quick buck instead.
The times where you can just search for information without being tracked what and when you search, is over.
I never received spam or when, i had known it came from the shady website i signed up with.
Today, my whereabouts, my age and sex are exploited as information for useless and silly spambots.
They are not even trying to entertain me.
And all that because using a mobile phone, goole knows where you are and where you are working. That estimates the income, making more stupid wine offers possibel, im non-alcoholic, that info they didnt get because i called help hotlines and those numbers are not listed and info is not legal to share.
But well. If one wants to build a free search engine and knowledge base, has to fight with users not knowing that the world is round and alternatives available.
It starts in school, kids end up in front of Windows Computers, Word is a text processor and google-ing stuff is the way to go.
It goes to that extent that recommending alternatives, people refuse it, even if its better because they dont know it. Humans are sometimes stuck in their behavior.
