pavlovs study also showed that if you rang the bell a certain amount of times without giving the dog any food it would stop salivating when it rang . <| sep |> That actually reminded me of how the police used a bomb to kill the sniper down in Dallas here recently too . <| sep |> Still lots of earth to explore . More fun here then it is on mars . <| sep |> The demonization of opioids is just as bad as the criminalization of marijuana was 80 years ago . This is the same logic that lead to prohibition in the first place . Opioid use has plenty of risks , and nobody can deny that . They also provide a fantastic high that ' s more or less incomparable to other recreational drugs . Learn to control your behavior . If you find yourself unable to control your compulsions , opioids aren ' t for you , which is the realization it seems you ' ve come to now . Everybody knows heroin is an addictive drug , so don ' t let your body develop a tolerance to it . You can ' t use it more than two or three days in a row and not expect to feel the comedown . Neither that or their high potential for overdose make them evil . It ' s kind of funny that people are willing to take neurotoxic drugs like MDMA , but they draw the line at opioids , which are actually remarkably safe when properly dosed i . e . not abused . Especially sad when people thumb their nose at opioid users when they take benzodiazepines every weekend . I mean , I ' ve had people try to shame me for taking heroin while they were lighting their meth pipe , for god ' s sake . It ' s great that you ' ve learned to respect the drug , lots of people aren ' t lucky enough to learn that lesson , but don ' t demonize it .