people getting therapy included in their healthcare is good, its just that everyone should get it without having to rely on the caprice of employers
Also, drugging people up shouldn’t be used to paper over brutally exploitative working conditions that cause psychological damage.
They’re not taking ketamine to be high during the work day, it helps as an anti-depressant like medication
And depression, as well as other mental health problems can often be a direct outcome of being overworked, and having to deal with poor working conditions.
So we should hate healthcare insurance from companies?
We still live in a capitalist society
Just go organize irl if this bothers you so much
Yeah, you absolutely should hate the fact that you need to have insurance from companies. Organizing irl is not mutually exclusive with pointing obvious things out online either.
So we should hate healthcare insurance
Of course? Insurance is one of the biggest scams of all time right beside rent
I meant like over not having it from a company
idk this post just seems insanely circlejerky considering we’re all commies here
drugs help people beyond workplace productivity?
And there’s absolutely no problem with that. The issue I’m highlighting is using drugs to paper over problems that are a direct result of shitty working conditions.
if i get injured on the worksite and i’m given drugs & care to recover it is ‘papering over’ the mistakes & conditions that led to my injury, and getting me back to work faster. but i rather prefer that to having a longer convalescence–>possible unemployment & future medical consequences. don’t you? even state-run medical systems can be critiqued for prioritizing getting people back to work over the best interests of the patients, but i don’t see how complaining about novel therapies being offered to some privileged workers is a good way to make that point
Again, I’m not arguing against legitimate use cases for drug therapy here. 🤷
What I’m saying is that working conditions need to be improved, and then any psychological problems people have that are not a result of exploitation should absolutely be treated using therapy. I’m not sure how much more clear I can make this.
I get what you’re saying, but you keep wording it in a way that like, implies you think health issues caused by exploitation don’t still need to be treated, regardless of their origin. This stuff should be covered for anyone that needs it full stop. AND working conditions need to improve. Unless there’s evidence that the medical treatment is actually improper (using much higher than therapeutic doses for example), there’s no issue here really (with the covering of novel therapies, specifically)
You can say the increased need for treatment is a sign of damaging exploitative conditions and I’d agree but that isn’t what the article is about
No, I’m not implying anything of the sort. Nowhere am I arguing against treating health issues, and I’ve been as explicit as humanly possible regarding that point.
psychedelic-assisted therapy is good. Even better if the company pays for it.What the fuck is this Christian shit? Ketamine rocks
I get the urge to view this cynically because how can you not, but there’s a growing body of research showing the benefit of psychedelics in treating a variety of mental disorders. AFAIK the big ones are psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and, as the article mentions, ketamine. So it’s generally good that more people are getting access to that kind of therapy
Being against psychedelic therapy is as anti-science of a position as climate change denial
As someone with schizophrenia, life was infinitely better when I was using psychedelics frequently. Somehow shrooms and MDMA were generally helpful for psychosis/mania issues
They say to be careful about that because the trauma of a bad trip can induce psychosis, but psychedelic use overall (when adjusted for other drug use) is associated with similar or better general mental health compared to non-users, so I’m not too surprised honestly.
I wonder if they have to take a drug test to get hired
office jobs never drug test
Now they will test office employees once they are on the job. “Stevens, we see you failed to take your drugs. You are fired.”
Hmm, says here you don’t have any cocaine in your bloodstream. Sorry but we don’t think it’s gonna be a good culture fit
I was drug tested when I was hired for mine.
IME you are likely to have one during hiring/onboarding, but they definitely aren’t going to do any of the random test shit you see on TV. Over my 20 year work history I have only been tested during the hiring process, and this mainly includes office jobs.
Yeah; even my place that is well behind the times got rid of their policy that allowed them to randomly drug test employees shortly after I was onboarded (I did have to do a urine test when I was hired)
Soma is going to become real, isn’t it?
Brave New World was not supposed to be an instruction manual!
The CHUDs have ‘literally 1984’
We should have ‘literally Brave New World’.
