User profile:Perry

en ja ik heb in mn space een account gemaakt om je een bericht te sturen want ik denk dat ik mezelf ben tegengekomen:))

hey dude, I just saw your last edit to your personal profile. I know we don't know each other at all, but I just wanted to say congratulations on making it this far and best of luck in seeing this next phase of your life through! Keep on keeping on, as they say :)

thanks for the edits dude :)

Thank you for thanking me for thanking you!

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Oxazepam

Hey Perry, I've moved your article on oxazepam to the discussion page until it is complete. Using discussion pages is the best way to write a new drug article so it doesn't clog up the site and google with incomplete pages. :)

Thanks so much for your contributions <3

What I mean is the pros of alcohol have been contested. The pro you mention was seen in a small study of a particular subgroup of the population and the effect was really small, even if statistically significant. That means that the cons outweight the pros in alcohol even in moderate doses. That's not the case with MDMA where even relatively high doses well spaced in time produce no ill effect as far as I know. I cite the chapter I mentioned before: "Physiologically, alcohol’s benefits have never been proven, but the idea that low levels of drinking are protective is a pervasive myth – and a very useful one for the industry. We know that, 14for a particular group of people (middle-aged men), those that drink small amounts, particularly of red wine, have slightly lower levels of heart disease than those who don’t drink at all. However, this may be because this group have more-healthy lifestyles, or because of the “sick teetotaller effect” – where many people give up alcohol because they are ill (perhaps from some other disease); their worse health outcomes may have nothing to do with whether or not they drink, but do make the health statistics of non-drinkers appear worse. To know for sure if alcohol is actually preventing heart disease, we would need to do a randomised trial where some of this group drink no alcohol, others drink it in small amounts and others drink more heavily. Until this experiment has been done we don’t have proof that alcohol has health benefits.

As I’ve written before, there is 15no such thing as a safe level of alcohol consumption. Alcohol is a toxin that kill cells and organisms, which is why we use it to preserve food and sterilise needles. Acetaldehyde, produced when the body breaks down alcohol, is even more toxic, and any food or drink contaminated with the amount of acetaldehyde that a unit of alcohol produces would immediately be banned as having an unacceptable health risk."

Hi Perry, regarding the message you wrote to osky about harms, I think you should read the chapter about alcohol in David Nutt's book "Drugs without the hot air". He explains really well there why taking alcohol in moderation doesn't do you any good. Cheers :)