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27 October 2025, 11:38

Scott King

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Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
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Originally posted by Scott King:
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Originally posted by Saeed:
DEMAND creates SUPPLY!

NOT the other way round!

Not entirely true I think. If that were the case there'd be no need for marketing or sales.

American have no need, no "demand" for any new or more firearms, fashion, transportation, bedsheets, toothpaste or hunting trips.
I/ we keep our teeth clean and brush regularly until we were told we needed to whitening our teeth and yes there is whitening toothpaste readily available. And we buy it. I/ we have plenty of firearms that are perfectly suited to every shooting experience we pursue until we are told we need the plastic, cnc, rail gun,....and yes they are readily available. And we buy it.

TomP has mentioned a few times that he drives an older diesel pickup that he seems satisfied with. Oh no, no, no,no! say the marketers, Tom needs a 2026 turbo Silverado, King Ranch, long bed, leather,.....and Tom wonders. Maybe he'll buy it.
I've had some very satisfying bird hunting. I've shot geese over decoys, grouse over pointers, pheasants over flushing dogs and I'd be very happy to simply continue enjoying what I know but then I find out about wing shooting in Argentina and how readily available it is and I'm tempted. Maybe,.....

Americans love the "feel good". Americans love the feel good, the self satisfaction of being pretty, smart, successful, talented and happy. Content. Americans like the "high" and pursue it. We've seen it on the pf, some here pursue the "high" of winning and argument, being right, getting the last word. The "high" of I told you so!

The Americans that enjoy the feel good from the high that comes from drugs are sometimes convinced by marketers that this new and more potent drug feels better buy it.

I didn't buy silk or flannel sheets for my bed because I was in anyway dissatisfied with my existing regular cotton bedsheets. I bought the new sheets because someone said I should try them and they are readily available available so I bought them and tried it.

We are a want based society and not a need based society. When asked how many guns he had Phil Gramm said, "more than I need, but not as many as I want."

And so the marketers and suppliers and vendors profit from us.

27 October 2025, 13:17

RolandtheHeadless

Scott, do you think Trump should begin bombing domestic drug dealers?

If not, what's the difference?

And I'm not talking legally... I mean morally.

27 October 2025, 16:35

Steve Bertram

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Originally posted by Saeed:
DEMAND creates SUPPLY!

NOT the other way round!

Correct.... people will find ways to alter their minds, they are not being tempted to do so. I'm wrapping up a hunting trip to one of the Reservations, sure there is meth and fentanyl here, when I first began coming here to drug of choice was either Lysol or Aquanet, mixed in n water and drank like a cocktail. It is not the drug dealers but rather the drug users that create the problem. I have watched this pattern my whole life and lost some people who I really cared about to drug abuse, but it was their actions that created the situation.

27 October 2025, 17:14

ledvm

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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Dr. Easter is also misleading all of us again. Even Nurse Practitioners can and do write opiate prescriptions. It is not near as difficult as he makes it sound.

Every rural and urban clinic is staffed to the gills with APRNs writing away.

Of course, equine surgeons are not permitted to write humans prescriptions.

Please LLL, speak about something you know about. I hold a DEA license to use and prescribe opioids and am credentialed to do so in 2 states by the same agencies that license MDs. I sit through all the mandated training these days right beside the MDs.

Of course I am not licensed to prescribe for human use…but do you think Rover or Trigger drive to Walgreens? No. Humans pick them up and we write triplicate scripts for them from the same drug stores.

I do a lot of comparative seminars with human sports medicine orthopedists…100% of them tell the same story.

Yes, use is allowed. However, the regulations make use of them extremely inhibitory. That and the new propaganda spread across the medical community that opiates are evil. They are not. When needed they are mercy.

Yes I admit, even in veterinary medicine in the 90s and early 2000s they were overprescribed but now due to unhinged regulation they are discouraged and under utilized to the detriment of painful people.

In the US the pendulum ALWAYS swings too far each way.

27 October 2025, 18:27

ANTELOPEDUNDEE

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Originally posted by ledvm:
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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Dr. Easter is also misleading all of us again. Even Nurse Practitioners can and do write opiate prescriptions. It is not near as difficult as he makes it sound.

Every rural and urban clinic is staffed to the gills with APRNs writing away.

Of course, equine surgeons are not permitted to write humans prescriptions.

Please LLL, speak about something you know about. I hold a DEA license to use and prescribe opioids and am credentialed to do so in 2 states by the same agencies that license MDs. I sit through all the mandated training these days right beside the MDs.

Of course I am not licensed to prescribe for human use…but do you think Rover or Trigger drive to Walgreens? No. Humans pick them up and we write triplicate scripts for them from the same drug stores.

I do a lot of comparative seminars with human sports medicine orthopedists…100% of them tell the same story.

Yes, use is allowed. However, the regulations make use of them extremely inhibitory. That and the new propaganda spread across the medical community that opiates are evil. They are not. When needed they are mercy.

Yes I admit, even in veterinary medicine in the 90s and early 2000s they were overprescribed but now due to unhinged regulation they are discouraged and under utilized to the detriment of painful people.

In the US the pendulum ALWAYS swings too far each way.

If you give a horse Oxycodone do they also develop and need to be treated for constipation?

27 October 2025, 19:53

Scott King

quote:
Originally posted by RolandtheHeadless:
Scott, do you think Trump should begin bombing domestic drug dealers?

If not, what's the difference?

And I'm not talking legally... I mean morally.

Why use a bomb? I/ we can walk right to their door and shoot them.

My commitment, my dedication to my family is to provide protection. I will not allow drug dealers to poison them and killing drug dealers I have no problem with. Everyone in Dillingham knows that.

There's my morals.

27 October 2025, 20:42

wymple

Oh no, no, no,no! say the marketers, Tom needs a 2026 turbo Silverado, King Ranch, long bed, leather,.....and Tom wonders

Marketing is tricks to create demand, not supply. Demand has to come 1st or there's no point in supply.

27 October 2025, 20:54

ledvm

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Originally posted by ANTELOPEDUNDEE:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Dr. Easter is also misleading all of us again. Even Nurse Practitioners can and do write opiate prescriptions. It is not near as difficult as he makes it sound.

Every rural and urban clinic is staffed to the gills with APRNs writing away.

Of course, equine surgeons are not permitted to write humans prescriptions.

Please LLL, speak about something you know about. I hold a DEA license to use and prescribe opioids and am credentialed to do so in 2 states by the same agencies that license MDs. I sit through all the mandated training these days right beside the MDs.

Of course I am not licensed to prescribe for human use…but do you think Rover or Trigger drive to Walgreens? No. Humans pick them up and we write triplicate scripts for them from the same drug stores.

I do a lot of comparative seminars with human sports medicine orthopedists…100% of them tell the same story.

Yes, use is allowed. However, the regulations make use of them extremely inhibitory. That and the new propaganda spread across the medical community that opiates are evil. They are not. When needed they are mercy.

Yes I admit, even in veterinary medicine in the 90s and early 2000s they were overprescribed but now due to unhinged regulation they are discouraged and under utilized to the detriment of painful people.

In the US the pendulum ALWAYS swings too far each way.

If you give a horse Oxycodone do they also develop and need to be treated for constipation?

Their lower colon is not nearly as sensitive to the effects of opioids as humans.

But on the topic…the opiate alternative tramadol seems to activate the opiate receptors in the human colon as much as traditional opioids causing constipation as much.