Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
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Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#2So painkillers used against prescription kill more people than any individual illegal drug and since people demand painkillers to treat chronic pain physicians are looking to treat chronic pain with alternatives one such is using MJ as one of those alternatives because misuse doesn't result in fatal overdoses, generally.
Vox, stop with the hyperbola.
Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#3Knowing what I know about opioid painkillers, I don't think I'd ever accept a script for them. I'd accept them in the hospital, but never in a bottle that goes home with me...
Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#4So painkillers used against prescription kill more people than any individual illegal drug and since people demand painkillers to treat chronic pain physicians are looking to treat chronic pain with alternatives one such is using MJ as one of those alternatives because misuse doesn't result in fatal overdoses, generally. Vox, stop with the hyperbola.
There's not much content in this article. However, if people tend to use a drug beyond its prescription, with very bad results, that's still a reason to change things.
I mean, ipads do not have a big red button with "rm -r /" listed. I don't see why the drug industry should be exempt from designing constraints that prevent user error.
Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#5Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#6So painkillers used against prescription kill more people than any individual illegal drug and since people demand painkillers to treat chronic pain physicians are looking to treat chronic pain with alternatives one such is using MJ as one of those alternatives because misuse doesn't result in fatal overdoses, generally. Vox, stop with the hyperbola.
There's not much content in this article. However, if people tend to use a drug beyond its prescription, with very bad results, that's still a reason to change things. I mean, ipads do not have a big red button with "rm -r /" listed. I don't see why the drug industry should be exempt from designing constraints that prevent user error.
I don't think there's much you can do here. There will always be those people who nod their doctor off and then go on and do what they want.
Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#7All it takes is one or two extra pills to get high from the standard opioid pain prescription. It would've been nice to see this mentioned in the article but it seems pretty light on content.
Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#8So painkillers used against prescription kill more people than any individual illegal drug and since people demand painkillers to treat chronic pain physicians are looking to treat chronic pain with alternatives one such is using MJ as one of those alternatives because misuse doesn't result in fatal overdoses, generally. Vox, stop with the hyperbola.
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Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#9Prescribing opium ... a trend that have not been seen in the world since victorian era in the UK.
Opium having the reputation to make people amorph losing their will to rebel.
The new trend is opioid are now cheap and not prescribed to the rich but the poor.
Religion used to the opium of the people they said, and now that opium is cheap, religion is not needed anymore to make people servile.
I love this new era of progress.
Tomorrow we make an application to help parents poor sell their kids body part on the internet for the cure of richer people?
I mean, let's try to make even more dystopic. We can do better. That is what progress is. Making system more efficient.
Re: Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
#10So painkillers used against prescription kill more people than any individual illegal drug and since people demand painkillers to treat chronic pain physicians are looking to treat chronic pain with alternatives one such is using MJ as one of those alternatives because misuse doesn't result in fatal overdoses, generally. Vox, stop with the hyperbola.
There's not much content in this article. However, if people tend to use a drug beyond its prescription, with very bad results, that's still a reason to change things. I mean, ipads do not have a big red button with "rm -r /" listed. I don't see why the drug industry should be exempt from designing constraints that prevent user error.
You can't even imagine the pain and suffering the constraints currently in place cause legitimate users of pain killers. Doctors are so scared of the DEA they're doing crazy things. Someone very close to me had a ruptured disc, killing the nerves in her spine, so much that just standing would cause pain that made her black out or vomit. And even though she'd never been prescribed anything for pain, she had to hover over a urinal crying uncontrollably, to take a drug test to make sure she wasn't an addict.
If the line is between people suffering horrendous incomprehensible pain and people making a choice to abuse drugs. Well I'm pushing that line right up against the people who get the luxury of making a choice.