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?
Yeah the dude who shot up a hospital was denied the meds for back pain. Not saying it’s justified, but chronic pain can turn you into a completely different person if left untreated
I have someone close to me who's been dealing with it for 30 years after a workplace injury.
They've been refused medication by pharmacists frequently, they've been mistreated and abused by doctors for being an "addict" and they literally cannot walk without their medication because of how severely damaged their nerves are