Eilene

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Journalist looking for white-collar professionals
4 points by Eilene 6y ago|0 comments
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Follow up to Ask: HN about drug use
18 points by Eilene 9y ago|0 comments
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by Eilene 9y ago
Hi geekout. I tried you via email but I have a protonmail account now. So if you want to reach me there it's eilenez@protonmail.ch Thanks, Eilene
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by Eilene 9y ago
I'm going to reach out now, thanks.
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by Eilene 9y ago
thanks, I'd like to email you to the address in your profile, ok?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I don't have conclusions yet, but I do have ideas and didn't think my questions were leading. So apologize if they seem so. If you don't feel "pressured"--overtly or subvertly--to take a subst
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by Eilene 9y ago
I will reach out, thank you. This is very helpful. Your last paragraph describes Peter accurately. At some point, all the years of chronic stress, too little sleep, too many stimulants (even before IV drug abuse) changed him somehow. I&#x2
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by Eilene 9y ago
What kind of work do you do?
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by Eilene 9y ago
I'm glad (for you) too.
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by Eilene 9y ago
Would you be comfortable giving some general details about what you do, in what kind of company you work and how long you've been in the industry? (It helps e to qualify your opinion in some way... )
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by Eilene 9y ago
I don't want to do a hatchet job on white collar drug use, no. I want to learn what's actually being used, the extent of the use and then draw some meaning from that, meaning that doesn't intend to say whether the use is bad
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by Eilene 9y ago
Are you aware of others in your company or at other companies that also use cannabis as much as you? Or are you aware of people using narcotics/amphetamines?
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by Eilene 9y ago
How long ago was this? (also, how awful)
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by Eilene 9y ago
I would love to see a study too.
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by Eilene 9y ago
That's what I'm thinking (as I stare at a computer screen for 8 hours...)
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by Eilene 9y ago
If I sound like an idiot, forgive me, but you mean, literally, contractors that have to physically climb towers, right?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Why weed? It would seem that would make you want to hang out all day and snack, or just sleep or watch television?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Just realized I've reached out to Hart but have not heard back.
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by Eilene 9y ago
I am not trying in anyway to contribute to prohibition (and history shows it doesn't work anyway). But I'll keep your warning in mind, sincerely. And I'll track down Carl Hart. Thanks.
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by Eilene 9y ago
so dope meaning weed right?
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by Eilene 9y ago
Does that make you feel you should be using something too?
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by Eilene 9y ago
understood, thanks.
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by Eilene 9y ago
Do you all discuss the heavy use because you're concerned about the toll it could take on your lungs, in the same way you might be concerned if it was tobacco? or is it more than that? (also I can't believe you can run marathons a
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by Eilene 9y ago
thanks for the link. And I have found meth is alot more common, it seems, in the gay community.
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by Eilene 9y ago
What is it like for you to work in isolation for so much of the time? Do you think the cannabis and LSD are only for focus or is some of it for (for lack of a better word) escape?
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by Eilene 9y ago
It started out as a focus on drug abuse, but more than abuse or use, I'm trying to answer a question of why? If, for example, you don't abuse but just use psychoactive drugs in some way, regularly, why? Especially if you like your
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by Eilene 9y ago
it was enormously freeing to finally be able to write about what happened to my family, yes, thank you. I felt like I was living in a John Grisham created hell, afraid of telling anyone what really happened and instead acting like Peter was
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by Eilene 9y ago
I completely agree and absolutely intend to discuss that in the book, thank you. When you say "brain health" do you mean actual neurological changes taking place in the brain, or underlying mental health issues like depression and
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by Eilene 9y ago
Have you always found you need some way to decompress from the stress? I'm trying to learn how stressful your work as a developer is. Is it the work or the work environment (a startup). Do most of your peers find some way to come down
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by Eilene 9y ago
Do you think that the pot is countering any depression or down feelings that may come from being isolated for so long each day? That sounds really hard, even if you really like the work.

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