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?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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?