To some degree that's true, especially on the Eastern Front.
However, the 44 Wehrmacht Divisions in Normandy fared rather poorly against the 6 U.S. divisions that landed there on 6/6/44.
Posted on 05/06/2005 10:57:50 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
She's damn lucky if she kicked it......one of very few to be lucky enough to stop if she used it for a long time.
Stay safe !
You are correct.
I think some here are more than casual observers..lol
Methadone is more concentrated than Heroin but the euphoria is not as profound as Heroin.
Nothing is that I'm aware of.
The Allies kicked their asses indeed but one cannot underestimate the fighting ability of crack Wermacht units throughout that war.
man for man, they were a very adept fighting force...maybe the best in modern warfare.
Thank God, their numbers were limited....doped or otherwise.
To some degree that's true, especially on the Eastern Front.
However, the 44 Wehrmacht Divisions in Normandy fared rather poorly against the 6 U.S. divisions that landed there on 6/6/44.
Agree with ya on that....had the generals fought that war versus that paper hangin son of a bitch, and the weapons they knew would win such as the Sturmgewehr 44 etc etc. It would have been a long hard road to win....longer and worse than it was for our folks.
Amen.
Do you realize how strong your sister is to have been hooked on that drug and then stop using it? Amazing.
Were I to decide to be a drug addict, I would probably opt for quasi-functioning opiate addict....
I've never understoof the allure of meth or crack....nerve wracking dope it appears to me.
I've always thought drugs were supposed to relax oneself.
But....like you I don't use any drugs either...nor alcohol.
But I was young once...30 years ago and did dumb things.
Like the famous retort:
Speaker: You're drunk!
Retort: Yes, I may be drunk. But you're ugly, and I'll be sober in the morning.
Cheers!
Not exactly what I've heard. The story as I remember it is that a German chemist had noted morphine's strong analgesic properties; wanting to improve on them (and perhaps decrease the problems with CNS depression of breathing at high doses), he chemically cooked up morphine to add a couple of acetyl groups to it. (This was by analogy of addition of acetyl groups to salicylic acid (quite similar to oil of wintergreen...) to produce acetesalicylic acid (aspirin)).
The modified morphine was to be a "heroic" treatment for pain, hence the name, "hero"-in.
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Cheers!
Geez, isn't that what Free Republic is for?
Full Disclosure: Or there's always Christ...
Cheers!
You could be very well correct, I was remembering something I read long ago. What I now recall is that it was used to treat morphine addiction.
thanks for the info!
They will be controlled.
Imagine a pill that increases alertness, improves memory and will probably reduce brain aging effects. Plus NO side effects.
It will make many want to abuse!
Not that I'd reccomend anyone start speeding for fun, but the dirty little secret of addictive drugs is that most addicts kick their habit on their own. And the ones that don't kick it on their own, usually never do.
How would you define abuse, and what contribution do you think laws can make toward preventing such abuse?
Nothing new. Look up the origin of the word "assassin".
Let's see, it if increases cognition after a long night, or during a long night there are going to be some who will attempt to overdose.
Just look around, it happens.
It looks like from what I've seen, however, that there is a huge safety margin between projected dose and limiting doses with an ampakine (CX-717) so you'd probably have to take 8 pills or more to just develope a headache!
But right now there's nothing to suggest that abuse (taking more than the recomended dose) would do much more than produce a headache.
Further testing will tell. We're a couple of years from having an ampakine on the shelf for anything. But DARPA (military) and sleep related uses are probably going to come first.
LAWS? Just distribution/costs will limit use, as it USUALLY should be.
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