---> http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3395290.htm

Everybody knows alcohol is the cure to gambling addiction

pfft bob brown is a blowhard buffoon

am i missing something? sounds good to me

Sounds like you are missing common sense Eskimo.

recreational prescribed narcotics are for losers. You can't even watch TV anymore without constant ads for some kind of ridiculous drug treating a specific personality disorder or erectile dysfunction. what a load of crap.

The pharmaceutical industry as a whole is a farce.

Nice, should help with tilt management

cocaine over gambling imo

lol at gov

Just send them to a penal colony instead.

Jesus Christ, no.

loads of dumbness itt. if someone wants to get rid of their gambling problem, ideally before they ruined their hole life, pharmaceutical help might be the only way to go.

a friend of mine would have never managed to quit alcohol permanently without using a similar (the same?) drug.

i generally stand on the more sceptical side towards pharmaceutical industry, and i agree there are lots of medicaments which were invented to make money only without any positive and sometimes even negative effects, and there should be the strictest regulation possible and harsh penalties to prevent such.

but to conclude the above is a reason to "hate governments" or even that aids conspiracy bull**** requires a mental state way beyond simple dumbness.

Since this is nation specific, it is your country which is a farce, not the industry.

give this man the nobel prize - he knows everything!

you realize aids victims died long before there were any drugs combatting hiv? they died quicker, and suffered horribly for years. most hiv-patients live a pretty ordinary life for decades nowadays.

Don't forget the green name.

But srsly, your arguments are incoherent and tinfoil-esque. As soon as you use anecdotal evidence most reasonable people are going to ignore/berate you, quite rightly too.

I'm not going to delete your posts because you'll freak out and say that I'm censoring you just like the drug companies and the government or something like that. I'm also not going to respond to you because you are in fact not open to hearing other opinions.

However, Jesus ****ing Christ this is a thread about some comments from some politician in Australia about prescribing drugs that inhibit dopamine pathways to treat gambling addiction. It is not a thread for you to talk about some conspiracy theory that you believe in.

If you want to talk about your AIDS conspiracy theories, find somewhere more appropriate to do it. There are probably sections of 2p2 where that's ok, and certainly sections of the internet. Start a thread there and enjoy having an argument with a ton of people who don't believ you and refusing to change your mind. If you hijack a thread in NVG again with rapid-fire posts about some other topic, I'll ban you.

Luckily, this thread was guaranteed to get hijacked by people bitching about the government/pharmaceutical companies anyway, so I'll just lock it.