I think the issue is....having been around the rural areas of the south....is that people will get the prescription, and eventually reach a stage where the normal amount of Perocet won’t work. So, they go to Doctor number two, and get a second prescription. They are then taking twice the normal amount of medication, and eventually....that won’t be enough because the body adapts after a while to each dosage.
Liver damage? Yeah. It may take a couple of years, but your liver will suffer and whatever pain you had....won’t matter at that point.
Confusion? Go talk to the folks who upped their levels and reached a point where they were fairly confused on a regular basis. These are people who shouldn’t be working...shouldn’t be driving...and can’t be relied upon to handle their personal affairs.
I do agree that after some accidents and operations...Percocet makes sense in limited doses. Once you get past that point, and it’s more of a permanent thing...you need to find someone and sign your affairs over to them because you can’t be dependable anymore.
I was told that once you are on a specific opioid pain med for over a year, you are now addicted to it whether you want to admit it or not.
I think you and the Government should absolutely decide who needs what. $crew the Doctors and what they think. The same goes for birth control and abortions-—right?
I think you and the Government should absolutely decide who needs what. $crew the Doctors and what they think. The same goes for birth control and abortions-—right?
I think you and the Government should absolutely decide who needs what. $crew the Doctors and what they think. The same goes for birth control and abortions-—right?
The ignorance about opioids is remarkable and widespread.
No, there is no liver toxicity to (pharmaceutical) opioids. The only "toxicity" is 1) respiratory depression which can be fatal when taking street opioids that have no quality (potency) control, and 2) constipation which can cause serious bowel obstructions. Beyond that are infinitesimally small adverse toxicities that are more related to autoimmune situations.
More people have been damaged by drugs developed to avoid opiates than by opiates.
All of the non-steroidal antiinflammatories have more toxicity than opioids - aspirin like drugs cause gut bleeding, kidney damage and tinnitus. Acetaminophen causes liver damage.
So many suffer from the widespread bete noir to opiates. So lets have more restrictions on them so we drive more people to the more toxic drugs?
Opioids are like chainsaws - very useful and very capable of causing damage unless you know what you are doing. I vote that we start treating each other as capable of learning how to use a chainsaw.