OT Opioid Epidemic - 'Public Health Emergency'

[Shaboid]

I'm not sure if it is fair to say that a majority of Americans approve of disapprove of Trump and his actions, I'll leave those polls and their analysis up to everyone else. One thing I will give Trump credit for, if he can pull it off, is turning around the trend of overdoses that are due to opioids. If anyone here has ever been prescribed vicodin, oxycodone, morphine, etc. and not become addicted, consider yourself lucky. I know I do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/politics/trump-opioid-crisis.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/us/drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-us.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-health-emergency-here-s-what-that-means.html

Sadly, I feel like this is going to be a serious uphill battle for him, and the US in general. Crazy to think that the death rate is being compared to Americans killed during the Vietnam War...

 

[Denny Crane]

I use painkillers on a regular basis these days. Lupus arthritis is a bitch.

A few years ago, I was at the doctor (urgent care clinic) and told him how I'd eat 6 ibuprofen to get rid of my migraine headaches and he offered me opioids, which I turned down. This goes to the willy nilly way doctors would prescribe opioids.

I'm on Tramadol these days, which isn't an opioid but does a fine job of reducing pain. If taken in big doses, it gets you high like an opioid, but it's a big risk of having a seizure.

If people are going to deliberately take too much of a prescribed medication, they're likely to have complications. No way around that. The doctors aren't there feeding you your pills daily.

There's also the issue of mixing drugs with other prescriptions. If people go to one doctor for treatment and then go to another seeking opioids, there is a risk of overdose or other bad effects.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Weird how there is a strip down the middle of the us where people are drug free and happy. I want to move there.