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  1. Anyone can become physically dependent (meaning will experience withdrawal on cessation of use) with any substance with addictive potential.  Heroin and opiates have a high addictive potential and apparently very nasty, although not life-threatening, withdrawal.

    Those people are not necessarily "whole hog" addicts, meaning physical, psychological, and spiritual dependence.  Whole hog addicts exhibit a mixture of psychological defects including depression, anxiety, ocd and even bipolar disorder.  But none of these usually deserves an individual clinical diagnosis as they mostly disappear with sobriety (there are cases of comorbid disorders, but the diagnosis cannot be made prior to abstinence). 

    For a "whole hog" addict, it is gross oversimplification to say he drinks/uses because he's depressed (or anxious, or ocd, or bipolar, or whatever).  Or even that hes depressed (or whatever) because he drinks/uses (he probably is) and it would be very unwise to treat such an addict with conventional treatment for depression or the other psychological ailments.  Whole hog addicts will go through the withdrawal over and over again and still come back to their drug of choice, or switch to another, because they can't seem to exist without pretending to control their mental state by drinking or doing drugs.  A lot of us that have survived it, or experienced it up close, or even those that still suffer refer to it as a long, slow, cowardly suicide.

    It is probably safe to say that there are many latent "whole hog" addicts that haven't abused a substance sufficiently (or with high enough addictive potential) to unlock their full addiction.

    It is probably also safe to say that there are a number of people who become physically addicted to opiates/oids and lack the willpower or stamina to power through withdrawal that they eventually succumb to overdose or other pathology without ever becoming whole hog addicts.

    I don't know if anyone has attempted to sort physical opiate/oid addicts from whole hog ones.  Not even sure it can be done.  Certainly, social conditions can lead to the abuse of opiates/oids that leads to addiction, of either the physical or whole hog variety, but in a lot of cases fixing those conditions won't help those already addicted and probably won't stop the whole hog addicts from fulfilling that destiny.

    Medical science doesn't understand addiction very well, so it's no surprise that social scientists get it wrong, too.

  2. Just for clarity's sake, she wasn't on parole.  She was on "supervised release" as part of a federal sentence.  Like parole, you are under supervision and breaking the terms of supervision can get you thowed back in the joint, but commission of a new offense subjects you to the normal jeopardy.  Because vote fraud is typically a state issue, I assume the feds were fairly hands-off on it.

  3. If you can satisfy yourself that you dont have some kind of malware sending lots of pings, then it seems like a problem with your ISP.

     

    https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/_p6DX6sQ4i8

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    In the past, user connections from Frontier to Google have come over a very small set of addresses (one or two), probably because Frontier is either NATing for their users or using some manner of proxying (perhaps an invisible one).   The result is that connections from Frontier look like one big DoS attack to Google because we're getting so many requests from a single address.   We do discover proxies over time and except them but perhaps Frontier has recently changed the address(es) that they are NATing or proxying from.   We've contacted them and they say they understand the problem and are trying to resolve it.
     

     

  4. 6 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

    See the Claritin, Allegra, Zyrtec drugs are to prevent you from getting leaky in the face. Once you get leaky, then all bets are off and then things like Benadryl or Atarax are necessary to dry you out and stop the leaks.

    Ahhhh.  Perhaps my problem all along.  I don't really consider myself to be having an allergy attack until I'm leaky in the face.  And, obvs, I don't take benadryl until I am.

  5. 57 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

    Doing something like OTC Loratadine (Claritin) right when you wake up in the morning (before you go outdoors) doesn't cut it for you? It's dirt cheap if you buy in bulk at Costco/Sam's--similar to Diphenhydramine (Benadryl).

    Maybe I'll give that a try.  I don't care about the money if it works.  It's just hard to try anything else when you know benadryl does the job.  I remember like 20 years ago, there were two "miracle" allergy drugs by prescription (don't recall their names).  I got a scrip for one and didn't do much and before I could get the scrip for the other, it went off the market cuz it was killing people or somesuch.  Seldane was the latter, don't remember the other one.  Actually, it appears that Claritin was the one I tried that didn't seem to work very well.  Claritin and Seldane, does that sound right?

  6. Not fine dining by any stretch, but there was a great subway shop on Asbury across from SMU called NY Subway.  The longtime owner called it quits a couple of years back and no one apparently stepped up to take it over.

    They had a store on the drag 20-30 years ago, too.

    In any event, it is apparently back with the same menu and a few changes.  HP types and anyone in the central/north dallas area may want to give it a go.  Definitely a cut above for subs.  https://www.yelp.com/biz/new-york-sub-dallas-3?adjust_creative=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA&utm_campaign=yelp_api&utm_medium=api_v2_business&utm_source=dWJMtmYxpd5N5yoyzSuhtA

  7. 24 minutes ago, staboner said:

    man i don't know. i do the daily zyrtec or whatever and rotate them. i don't think they do anything though and i have greatly cut down. do more natural stuff like the neri pot, hypoallergenic sheets, air filters, etc

    you are nuts taking benadryl. thats a nap for sure. sorry you have it so bad my man. 

    i am actually worse in my house right now (versus outside) so not sure wtf is going on. imma go kick the dog and slap the wife just to make sure

    I dunno, I like sleep, and I am mostly non-functional when the really leaky attacks happen, so benadryl stops it and I doze off.  Win-win in my book.  I suppose it might be nice to find something that stops it and doesn't make me nod off.  I use saline spray sometimes, like now I can tell everything is just inflamed as hell inside my head.  The saline stings pretty good so I guess that's helping, I don't know.

  8. This is horribad.  Took two overlapping doses of benadryl to stop the leakage yesterday.  So far so good today, but I haven't been outside and can feel that  it's just waiting to start back up again.

     

    Question.  Most of the time I just power through initial allergy attacks, but when my eyes and nose start leaking at high flow rates, hit the benadryl and take a nap.  Benadryl has always been effective for me.  I have a hard time dropping $25 on one of the newfangled ones, when the $5 benadryl means rapid relief.  What of the modern allergy meds should I try?

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  9. On 3/29/2018 at 4:28 PM, Celery Man said:

    keep.google.com for notes, grocery lists, etc. Like it for grocery lists because I can dump stuff on there, then turn it into a checklist and organize it as I plan my route.

    Trello for organizing larger lists/projects/whatever. From my own work to do list to planning Easter or whatever.

    If you don't want google to have your shopping lists, etc. Simplenote is a great app along the lines of keep.  Browser, PC App, iOS and MacOS.

  10. Those guys back then were pretty much tough as nails.  Raised during the Depression.  Played football both ways with minimal pads and no facemasks.

    I assume that he served in WWII before commencing his college career.  Most from the classes in the late forties would have been class of 44 or 45.

    My Dad played his high school ball against Clyde Smackover Scott.

  11. Sounds good, but didn't that Miami Jewess Patterson hired to pimp out basketball and other sports have some Disney connection?

    In the event, that is the first thing I thought of when I read the Disney bit.  Perhaps I am deranged.

    Regardless, Del Conte seems to care what Longhorn fans think and not what they ought to think, according to him, which is where Patterson went horribly wrong.

  12. 29 minutes ago, zlavydra said:

    Can't wait to see who we roll out to the mound with three games in the next four days. Anyone know why el Rey de Jamon was pulled after two innings? Didn't seem like a major injury 

    Scary. 

  13. 10 minutes ago, William_Cannon said:

    In all honesty, you should rent and demo as much as possible. Even within a particular type of bike, there are a lot of variations.

    Lotsa truth to this.  You can talk things with knowledgeable people until you're blue in the face, but until you do some riding, you won't know what things are important to you.  I hesitate to say go "cheap," but odds are decent after a few months of riding, you will have what you like closer to figured out and may wind up buying another bike.  So maybe the thing to say is "don't go bigtime into your first bike" in a while.

  14. 2 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    holy shit.  Ridgeway just needs to see the bench the rest of the way.  he's awful.   it sucks we are going to have to watch this shitshow for 2 more years.  sept can't get here fast enough.  I think Herman and staff are at least competent.

    Really everyone has regressed tangibly, and seemingly as the season progresses.

     

    So,  since we've only had three coaches now in my lifetime, how long does Pierce get? 3? 4? 5?

  15. So, we fucking tie it up in the T9.

    And load the fucking bases with no outs in the B9:  HBP HBP Single.

    Un.  Fucking.  Real.

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