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Warpy

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2. I am to some, not to others
Tue Dec 13, 2022, 04:54 PM
Dec 2022

Most blood pressure pills will put me on the floor but I'm strangely resistant to benzodiazepines, Back in the 60s, I could fall asleep on dexedrine and stay wide awake on Seconal. It's probably why I never did find my drug of choice and just wandered away from the whole thing when the 60s ended. Mostly, it was "is this supposed to do something? When?"

Studies on sex differences to drug effectiveness and toxicity definitely need to be done on female subjects. They haven't been because females under the age of 55 are assumed by drug researchers to be continuously pregnant and/or lactating.

Women in prisons would be ideal test subjects, and most would jump at the chance to earn a little cash and rack up some brownie points when their parole hearings come up. Other than that, they're going to have to rely on subjects with non hormonal IUDs and those taking frequent pregnancy tests.

We've been ignored for too long.

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