In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’
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#2Part 1 of the story: https://khn.org/news/india-burgeoning-chronic-pain-market-us...
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#3> In the Mankhurd slum in Mumbai, where the average life expectancy is 39
I wish articles didn't use life expectancy which is always misleading and confusing since it's severely affected by infant mortality. What would be more interesting would be 2 numbers, infant mortality and life expectancy at age 5.
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#4Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin.
It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
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#5> If there is a precursor to an American-style opioid epidemic in India, it is tramadol, a painkiller that became available here in the early 1990s. Drugmakers — often citing studies they had funded — touted tramadol as less addictive than other painkillers.
> “Tramadol information would come to every single clinician,” said Dr. Bobby John, a Delhi-based health expert. “Why? Because there is some drug salesperson sitting outside your door saying, ‘Hey, there’s a new drug. It’s non-addictive.’ Standard playbook.”
It's really important that people have easy access to opioids at the end of their life.
Tramadol is a terrible medication and is almost always the wrong choice of med.
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#6Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
Do you mean auto rickshaw, bicycle rickshaw, or hand rickshaw?
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#7Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
I used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the problem lay entirely in the cost and the difficulty of procurement if I traveled or something. I think people would be surprised by the positive effects of heroin legalization on lifestyles and outcomes of addicted people.
I’m not saying addiction is good or whatever, but opiates taken properly are safer than Tylenol and without money being an issue I think would help a lot of people. People on heroin look kind of shitty not because the drug is hurting them, but because the cost is hurting them.
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#8Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
I used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the p…
This sounds awful but i would say somewhat believable because many middle class people do coke regularly and apart from usually, picking a few kilos, they still look OK and keep their careers, families and the stuff. For sure it's not nearly as bad as if they were drinking. My ex is a writer and she was mostly writing on coke, she's as far from being a lost in life drug-addicted person as it gets, honestly i'm a lot closer to there with my alcohol abuse.
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#9Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
I used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the p…
How hard was it for you to quit? Did you go to rehab?
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#10Anecdotally a friend who travelled a lot in India told me that most Rickshaw drivers are take heroin. It wouldn't really surprise me as it looks like a damn tough life that they have.
I used to be addicted to heroin and honestly, the drug is amazing. The mental and physical clarity it gives you is downright unbelievable. For me the problem was never heroin itself (I worked harder on it, I was less anxious and happier) but the cost and the risk of it’s illegality. If heroin was the same price per pound as other agricultural products like beans or flour, I don’t think I would ever quit. For me the p…
The addictive and tolerance building effects of opiates are pretty bad. Heroin may make you feel better, but the withdrawal effects are horrific. Heroin legalization would help people get off the addiction. But it should not be done to encourage people take more opiates.