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According to our psychological theories any sufficiently fast acting and strong painkiller will be addictive as long as it removes or reduces any type of pain. Seams strange if this one truly will not have "drug abuse" connected to it.
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Off topic complaint: I am guessing an absolutely massive amount of (admittedly minor in each instance) grief has been caused by the most widely deployed simple, inexpensive, useful and familiar drug unnecessarily having two different names acetaminophen / paracetamol. Finally figured this out this year (aged 64) after previously being confused why I couldn't find any damn paracetamol in pharmacies on my occasional vi…
My wife and I got colds while vacationing in Edinburgh and had a heck of a time before realizing to ask for paracetamol rather than acetaminophen. Also, the rules the UK has for limiting paracetamol purchases to small amount per day are so fantastically stupid.
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My wife and I got colds while vacationing in Edinburgh and had a heck of a time before realizing to ask for paracetamol rather than acetaminophen. Also, the rules the UK has for limiting paracetamol purchases to small amount per day are so fantastically stupid.
You can buy two packs of 16 each, enough for 4 days usage at 2 per dose, 4 times per day, after which point if you still need them you maybe have a bigger problem. Or can just restock. What's "fantastically stupid" about it?
Me: yep argued with some strangers on HN about how daft/wise UK's paracetamol laws are, highly fulfilling!
:-)
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It’s not theoretical. On one side of the ledger we have people dying horrible deaths, on the other side we have people who can’t have vast quantities of paracetamol on hand for no particular reason. If you do in fact need vast quantities of paracetamol for some reason, it can be prescribed.
The very idea that you should need special permission from some form of officialdom for having access to anything that is very widely useful but in all but a very, very small subset of select cases involving very, very few people who harm only themselves with its misuse is what's genuinely disgusting here. The vast majority of adults should be able to live in a world where they're not treated like 10-year-old childre…
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That's a very real concern. A friend of mine has a higher than normal threshold for pain and have permanent injuries as a result. Among other things has walked around on a broken foot for months and failed to register a back injury. All of this then escalated to the point where she feels the pain, but the injuries have become permanent.
A rheumatologist explained to me that in people with chronic pain from things like arthritis, the brain's pain perception can become permanently altered to register pain that no longer "exists". She explained that the brain itself is really the source of the sensation of pain, and you don't necessarily need a "real" source producing a signal. So one should at least not ignore pain if one can avoid it.
Many years later we found that the actual cause was a Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak.
After two failed surgeries to fix it, she had enough and checked herself out.
See our documentary Pain Warriors for the whole saga.
Other comments have mentioned NSAIDs, but also there's nitrous oxide, ethanol, meditation, etc. This is a silly headline.
It should have "suitable for treating post-surgery pain" added to it - that qualification is in the body of the article.
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> a few Fifty thousand hospital visits per year > isn’t reasonable Fortunately this is not a popular opinion
You used and descontextualizad the scariest number possible for whatever instinctively nannying nonsense reason of your own. There were over 50,000 hospital emergency room visits, yes. However, bear in mind that many thousands of people visit emergency rooms for all kinds of unfounded reasons every year anyhow. Of those 50,000+ paracetamol-related visits (speaking of the United States here), less than 5% resulted in…
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Because it's an opioid?
It's not though
I'm really of the belief that the only reason kratom exploded in popularity the way it did was because it was a legal alternative to opiates. Not necessarily because it's an upgrade (or even sidegrade. ) If morphine could still be purchased in every corner store and pharmacy over the counter kratom extracts would never have blown up the way they did.