Aside from the overdosing, how do these people take this stuff without getting SUPER constitpated?
Because of this, the new laws governing the use of things like Vicodin mean I can no longer get my prescription from my Rheumatologist. I have to go to a pain doctor who will then decide what I need. Last time it was a round of painful injections which lasted all of three days and cost several hundred dollars after my insurance company got done paying. For less than 50 cents, I could have taken 6 Vicodin over the three days, felt better and slept better.
So once again, the government punishes those with true needs while they give precedence to addicts.
That’s why you see all these commercials for opioid related constipation you didn’t see on TV 10 years ago. That’s why I tend to think that it must really be bad out there and not some overblown fake thing.
I don’t know what the solution is. But for sure the cartels digs that we save a % of their consumers from their product killing them so they can potentially buy the product again. A good wacky conspiracy theory would connect overdose medication research funding to drug cartel cash.
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Slyfox asks: “Aside from the overdosing, how do these people take this stuff without getting SUPER constitpated?”
That is a question I also ask. 6 years ago I suffered a tib/fib fracture and had screws/pins/plates installed in my lower leg. My doctor had me on Percocet and after a few days and no lower GI action I began to wonder why.
After going off the drug and once the GI system kicked back in, it really kicked in! I always say that the worse part of the fracture and recovery was related to the lower GI slowdown. I lost 10+ pounds after my first successful trip to the bathroom after stopping the drug. I couldn’t sit for a week, had to visit the doctor for something to relieve the suffering in my fanny. Not fun.
Seems funny now but at the time it was anything but (pun intended).
Read “Naked Lunch” by William S Burroughs sometime. He lays out in joyous detail the beauty of opiate addicts. That’s one of the side effects.
You are thinking they are eating.
They are not.
And the “casual” users do get constipated.
The whole life of an addict is so incredibly different than that of a normal person. Things that we could never imagine doing to our bodies and acting in ways that would literally make us ill, are common place for the addict.
I am not buying that all of these addicts are the result of too many pills when you sprain your ankle...but there are a ton of addicts out there.
Aside from the overdosing, how do these people take this stuff without getting SUPER constipated?
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Who says they aren’t?
Why do you think pharmacies are starting to lock-up the laxatives?