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?
Lol I got prescribed percocets when I was 15 for a fucking hairline fracture on my ankle. I'm glad my mom was smart enough to swap them out for ibuprofen(though I do wonder where they went hmmmm mom?).
It was not very long ago when doctors were giving them at like literally candy
If you are white though. I also had an injury in my teens and was given the ibuprofen. Then I got t boned in my 20s when the whole “opioid epidemic” was going on and was given ibuprofen again. Even though I had some broken bones because they “were afraid I would become addicted like those other people.” Then you learn that the manuals these people use specifically says to “not give drugs to Latinos as they work through it” or whatever. I’m just pissed because I’ve never have been given these scary drugs and I had to instead find my own. I was in pain both times and they were just being racist. :what-the-hell:
Oh yeah there's clips going around where fairly recent text books explain how the morphological skull shape of the various races accounts for their different responses to pain, which is why it's okay to give pain medicine to whites but not people of color.
I also found out that, living laughing, loving out loud, those little finger monitors they were using to check my blood oxygen saturation to make sure my respiratory system wasn't crashing from the opioids this weekend don't work on people with dark skin. Like no, of course they wouldn't, why would any medical device ever be tested to see if it works with, what, like 60? 70% of the planetary population?
I once broke my pinky and cracked a tooth, after 5 hours waiting in the ER to get checked out, I was really annoyed due to the whole missing half of a couple teeth thing. Never expressed pain, doctors asked if I was in pain, told them just a little. Gave me an oxy without me asking, I told them I needed to drive my ass back after and they told me I already paid for the oxy and I'd be fine to drive home.
Got insanely lucky though, a dentist was on staff at the er at 11pm on a friday, and was able to put some temporary caps on my teeth. Props to that dentist for enabling me to eat that weekend.