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Posted on 07/24/2016 1:08:30 PM PDT by Wolfie
Tylenol is dangerous.
Every year, overdoses of medicines containing acetaminophen send more than 78,000 people to emergency rooms. One third of those emergencies happened by accident, according to a Consumer Products Safety Commission study. An estimated 150 people die each year from accidental acetaminophen overdoses, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more than the number who die from intentional overdoses of acetaminophen to commit suicide.
Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in one of the best-selling over-the-counter medicines in the U.S., Tylenol. (In many other countries it’s called paracetamol, and is part of the brand medicine Panadol.) It is also frequently combined with other drugs in many over-the-counter and prescription medications.
Taken correctly, acetaminophen safely reduces pain from headaches, body aches, muscle aches and menstrual cramps, and helps bring down fever. But if a patient takes two or more medicines containing acetaminophen (including over-the-counter medicines) it’s possible to get a dangerous amount by mistake. Too much acetaminophen can lead to liver failure and even death.
https://news.aetna.com/2016/03/common-dangerous-acetaminophen-overdose/
Vaporize or edibles.
Educate yourself so you can participate in an intelligent conversation.
Your rants damage your position.
Most generic outpatient morphine derivatives are NOT particularly expensive.
It would depend partly on the variety — indica or sativa type.
Well said.
“Prescribing fewer doses since people are not Doctor shopping to keep their addiction going.”
So pot helps opioid addicts control their addictive behavior?
There are no addictive qualities in pot.
Maybe you don’t. But some people do.
I don’t know about pot helping opiod addiction, but I saw an interesting program on NatGeo in which a former opiate addict was saying that a particular hallucinogen from Africa did.
I cannot recall if it came from a root or a tree or a mushroom, but it apparently causes an unpleasant and even dangerous trip that somehow shuts off opiate withdrawal in addicts, even in heroin addicts.
This guy would administer this drug in controlled situations to addicts in Canada where the drug is not illegal, but was not able to do it here in America where it is illegal.
Apparently use of this hallucinogen is not without risk either.
My attitude on opiates is stay away from them unless you have absolutely no other choice but to use them in order to manage severe pain.
Don’t want to get addicted to opiates.
Dozens of herbs have been smoked as healing agents over the centuries. There is no faster method of introducing chemicals into the brain via the bloodstream.
I’ve taken opiates for pain. I never had a problem. Imho, it depends on the person, not the drug.
Destroy your stomach lining and kidneys instead. And it doesn't have the same effect.
Trading one addiction for another.
I have taken opiates too, both for pain and to abuse them in order to get high.
I also did not become addicted to them, however I am aware of those who did.
The most opiates I have taken would be one Loricet, or similar type medication, at a time with a large meal so I didn’t get sick. I would mix that with Xanax and Soma and then smoke some weed on top of that. It produced a powerful high. I did get addicted to the Xanax though.
The person that I got these pills from told me about others that he sold to who were very addicted to opiates.
He had one guy who would come over and buy 20 Loricets and put them all in his mouth at the same time and just chew them up right then and there no liquids, no food, no nothing.
And not die from that. And sit there and shake his head yes at how good they made him feel.
There is a person with a high tolerance for opiates, and no doubt someone who would experience opiate withdrawal if they did not continue this behavior.
In order to get addicted to pills, you have to abuse the dosage and the rate over a long period of time and then run out.
It is at that time you will find out that you developed a true addiction.
“Most generic outpatient morphine derivatives are NOT particularly expensive.”
Especially when you get them free!
I had to take oxycodone for four weeks. The prescriptions ended, and that was that.
I’ve also taken percoset and demerol. Same thing.
Plus opiates usually constipate you, mj does not.
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