@Aella_Girl I found this to be unsurprisingly helpful. Thanks for making the stuff you do. I may not always be on the same page as you at the same time but I usually leave with something gold to dwell on for awhile that feels like a better sólarsteinn than I find most places these days.
Emergency scheduling and rushed rulemaking around 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) are moving forward without publicly documented evidence of an actual surge in harm.
Transparency and evidence are supposed to come first in public health decisions. If the data exists, it should be public. If it does not, that raises legitimate concerns about trust in federal health decision-making.
Restrictive policies that remove lower-risk alternatives can unintentionally push people toward dangerous street opioids. That harm-reduction context should not be ignored while the opioid epidemic continues.
Months after federal agencies raised concerns about 7-OH, and years after its entry into the market, there has still been no publicly released data demonstrating an emergent 7-OH driven overdose or mortality crisis. That gap between rhetoric and evidence deserves serious scrutiny.
@HHSgov@US_FDA@DEAHQ
@elonmusk I feel a lot of things about this post but mostly it feels like a reference to "Diogenes & Alexander" that you're hoping someone out there "groks" which if that's the case... pay me I guess?
@LITFL_Zinger I mean according to my post it worked really well which likely means I slept an extra special long time and as a life long insomniac, that's some kind of special.