opioid crisis

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opioid crisis is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 25, 2023 and March 31, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “especially in light of the opioid crisis”; “the opioid crisis kills a bit over 50,000 Americans per year”. It most often appears alongside 1992 Presidential debate, 9-11, ABA.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: July 25, 2023
• Last seen: March 31, 2026

Appears In

• Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability
• Against The Concept Of Telescopic Altruism

Related Pages

• • 1992 Presidential debate (1 shared issues)
• • 9-11 (1 shared issues)
• • ABA (1 shared issues)
• • Adesh Thapliyal (1 shared issues)
• • Alan Smith (1 shared issues)
• • Alexander Graham Bell (1 shared issues)
• • American Psychological Association (1 shared issues)
• • Americans with Disabilities Act (1 shared issues)
• • Anonymous (1 shared issues)
• • Asian-American Pacific Islander History Month (1 shared issues)
• • Australia (1 shared issues)
• • Australian model (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://beverlypress.com/2024/05/uptick-in-graffiti-paints-a-bleak-picture/
• • https://biblehub.com/greek/3646.htm
• • https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-the-2024-US-presidential-election
• • https://x.com/AppSpartacus

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability

July 25, 2023 · Original source

The place this is mostly evidently a problem is chronic pain treatment, especially in light of the opioid crisis - a lot of people have had their painkillers taken away and replaced with platitudes and cognitive behaviour therapy, and the biopsychosocial model is regularly cited in defence of this. The biopsychosocial model regularly gets sold as a cost-effective way of treating pain, and people in constant pain generally hate to be told they're getting a treatment they consider less effective because it's cost-effective, regardless of whether it's actually a good treatment or not...

Against The Concept Of Telescopic Altruism

March 31, 2026 · Original source

Maybe there is some possible comparison where some altruist cares about some set of foreigners more than a comparable set of countrymen? The war in Gaza killed 50,000 people, but the opioid crisis kills a bit over 50,000 Americans per year - is everyone who cares about Gaza exactly equally concerned about the opioid crisis? No, but there’s a better explanation - people care about dramatic deaths in big explosions more than boring health crises, regardless of where they happen. Everyone, lib and con alike, cared more about 9-11 than about a hundred opioid crises, even though the former only killed 4% as many people as the latter. And even the people who care about the opioid crisis usually can’t bring themselves to care about anything on the List Of Top US Causes Of Death, which are all extra-boring things like diabetes. Once you match like to like, nope, it’s pretty hard to find a “telescopic altruism” example that stands out from the general background of people having weird priorities.

Inline links: List Of Top US Causes Of Death

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• Against The Concept Of Telescopic Altruism
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• Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability