Comments on: Ontario Health Minister Abused Stimulants in Past, Has the Guts to Admit It.

By: Paul Inding

Paul Inding — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:02:48 +0000

I would like to wish you much luck. And a lot of money. Thank you.

By: Pete Quily

Pete Quily — Thu, 25 May 2006 03:10:16 +0000

Hi Douglas,

got it from the book my ADD coaching client Jeff Hamilton and I wrote that we’re looking for a publisher for, http://www.pillsdontteachskills.com

It’s not anti meds, they’re useful, but they’re not a complete solution.

Both sides are dirty, though the right has all 3 branches of power and essentially have been given a blank cheque by Americans so they tend to be dirtier cause they get to access more $$. There are common grounds, i.e., look at the democratic congressman who got caught with $90,000 in his freezer and got his office searched. the republicans screamed against the search, apparently because they feel they’re above the law. crooks of a feather….

By: Douglas Cootey

Douglas Cootey — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:29:22 +0000

Self-righteousness leers from both sides, my friend. That’s why I’m a registered Independent. I don’t think much of politicians and even less of political parties. Instead of being a fence sitter I prefer to sit in the judgement seat and look down piously upon the rabble above it all. Oh, waitaminute… LOL j/k

On an unrelated matter, where did you come up with your “Pills Don’t Teach Skills” meme? I love it. It succinctly summarizes my philosophy about medications regarding AD/HD and Depression.

~Douglas
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By: Pete Quily

Pete Quily — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:27:40 +0000

So far not much Douglas, other than a few typical reactionary self righteous right wing columnists.

Canadians have a different take on addiction then many Americans, here it’s gernerally viewed more as a health issue than a criminal and moral issue and if a stick your head in the sand drug war strategy has failed for 50 years, we don’t want to keep that failing strategy going for another 50.

For humor, what about drug abuser user Rush Limbaugh?

i.e. “”What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we’re not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.”
– Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995″

“If (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let’s be rid of them.
– Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993
via http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/10/ana03004.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/122839p-110349c.html

By: Douglas Cootey

Douglas Cootey — Thu, 18 May 2006 06:20:59 +0000

Courageous indeed. There certainly could be political fallout for this man. Please keep us posted on how the public and his peers receive this confession of his. I wish him all the best.

Addiction is something I haven’t covered at my blog – maybe because it’s a humor blog and I don’t find the subject funny. Maybe because it’s a painful subject for many people. Secret shames. Secret actions. I often wonder about why our brains would develop in a way that would allow us to become permanently rewired to instantly pursue behaviors that on the short term please us but in the long term damage us.

~Douglas
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