Doctors use what works! If the research says that methadone plus rehab is a more effective treatment for opioid addiction than just rehab, they’ll use methadone plus rehab.

It’s basically the same reason people use nicotine gum to help quit smoking. The cravings can be really tough to manage, so having something that allows you to reduce those gives you a much better chance to successfully quit.

Interesting note, you know what the treatment for severe alcoholism is? More alcohol! Alcohol addiction can get to the point where patients will literally die if they go cold turkey. Doctors can and do prescribe alcohol in those cases.

Not sure about Teams, but for Zoom you’re only first locally. Everyone else sees themselves first in their local client. The ordering of participants in Zoom meetings is documented here. There’s a whole bunch of logic behind the scenes; muted vs. unmuted, whether the participant called in, etc.

I wonder what it’s like to be Ed Sheeran. Is there any air gap at all between Ed-Sheeran-the-brand and Ed-Sheeran-the-human? Does Ed Sheeran even exist as a human anymore, separate from the brand?

The brand clearly thinks it’ll make more money by not taking any strong position on an active genocide. Makes sense for a brand, it’s a corporate construct that’s fundamentally amoral. It can only value profit.

What I’m wondering is what happened to the human? It existed at one point, before the brand did. Does it still exist? Does it share the same profit motive as the brand of the same name? Can it feel shame anymore? I hope it does.

I bet they used to like Rage Against The Machine before they got all political.