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To: DiogenesLamp

‘Addiction among service men became so common that they started referring to it as “The Soldiers Disease.”’

The problems with this theory have been pointed out to you, and your response seems to boil down to that you hadn’t and wouldn’t investigate that information: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3264470/replies?c=303


65 posted on 06/28/2017 10:24:57 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
The problems with this theory have been pointed out to you, and your response seems to boil down to that you hadn’t and wouldn’t investigate that information: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3264470/replies?c=303

The only problem pointed out to me in that linked message is that there is some disagreement as to the scale of the problem. Even David Cartwright (the author of the book cited) admits that "Soldier's Disease" was a real thing. He just argues that there were much fewer people addicted by opiates administered to ease the pain of war wounds than do others.

Read what David Courtwright said at this link.

Beyond that, I note your form of argument is to dig around in things I had written looking for material you could cherry pick instead of putting forth your own arguments based on your own research and experience.

I'm flattered that you felt the need to search my past commentary, but I think it's a poor substitute for a real argument.

69 posted on 06/28/2017 11:30:55 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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