I'm only thinking about this bc I just had surgery and I'm on oxy for the first time in 17 years, but, like...
Doctors really claim, like as a profession, that they just didn't know fucking opium was highly addictive and oopsie woopsie did a little fucky wucky and now like a million people are dead?
Cause I really never thought about that, but I took 1 "take 2 every four hours" pill SEVEN FUCKING HOURS AGO and I am still tripping balls and in my current altered state their cutesy little "We just forgot morphine was dangerous" shtick sounds pretty fucking ridiculous.
Oh and the DEA and FDA must have been in on this, too, right? The whole time? Because no one would actually be stupid enough to believe this shit, right?
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yeah basically. but its lumped together & muddled with the 'war on drugs'. sometimes "opiod epidemic" is people getting addicted through 'over'prescription, sometimes its talking about overdose deaths (sometimes related to scripts, sometimes not), and sometimes its just about perseptions & fearmongering around the fact of druguse whatsoever
A missing component here is that lot of the minor pain was chronic pain. People would go out and develop chronic pain from the American lifestyle or hard labor like construction and then be prescribed a diet of prediction opioids by doctors, which isn't so much pain management as it is total obliteration of the person over time.
US doctors prescribe opiates for chronic pain. People were taking them for months on end under doctors' advice.
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Yeah and after a while opiates became somewhat harder to get in a few places because of the crisis. The hospital mass shooting that occurred a few years back was because the guy was unable to get any medication for his back pain
Did your shoulder kinda ache ?
Here's an OC80!
When i got my wisdom teeth removed like 15 years ago they gave me two weeks worth of oxycodon. They were handing it out like candy.
Yeah I'm 30 now but when I fractured my ankle when I was 15 they prescribed me like multiple refills of Percocets.
It's wild to think about.
Yeah my mom took them away and replaced the bottle with ibuprofens, was a good move on her part as I found out not very long later how much I liked all sorts of drugs
I'm absolutely shocked at how well tylenol and ibuprofen are controlling my post-surgical pain like 30 hours out. Almost every time i've been injured for years i've gotten little or no relief from ibuprofen and mostly just toughed it out. I honestly thought taking tylenol for pain was a kind of ha ha joke and that everyone knew it didn't work but there were no alternatives. And like on sunday i was writhing in a hospital bed in immense pain whenever the opioid they we giving me started to run down. This whole experience has been so goddamn bizarre.
I got two weeks of oxy for the same reason. I didn’t touch that shit
i had an umbilical hernia that i had been living with until deciding to get it dealt with. minor outpatient surgery. i went in in the morning, was put under general anesthesia, and i was being wheeled out to a car a few hours later, mere moments after waking up in a recovery room. this was in about 2015, and in a region that had been targeted specifically by the pharmaceutical countries to be early adopters of a "new" opiate formulation. so by the time of my surgery, there have been tons of headlines, speeches, and general noise made about the ongoing opiate crisis / public health catastrophe. i'm not a substance abuse guy (except weed lol), but you can only hear so many stories of people who got addicted after an injury before wondering how easily it could happen to you.
anyway, the discharge nurse hands me a bag with a bottle on my way out the door with enough pills to be absolutely blasted out of my skull for a week straight. i asked if i could use other pain meds, like tylenol/aleve, etc, and they just scoffed and said they were giving me better stuff. i took one the day after when whatever medication i was on for the surgery was gone. after that i just took regular over the counter stuff for a few days, and then was out of pain. my bottle of oxys also came with a refill. i guess so i could just be fucked out of my head for two weeks straight if i wanted.
when i went back in for the post surgery consult a month later, i was asked how the experience was. i told them everything was great, but i felt like i was overprescribed pain meds. seeing as how i only used about 2% of what i was allotted, and even that felt unnecessary. i figured i was doing the responsible thing by telling them, like maybe they didn't know. anyway, she turned to me, super pissed, and was like, "well, you got through it, didn't you?!" like i was an asshole for mentioning it. like, literally, it was all over the headlines at every institution how our communities were in crisis due to these drugs being thrown around like candy.