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Terry Coombs[_2_]

On 10/31/2018 2:19 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:29:05 -0400, Frank "frank wrote:

On 10/31/2018 12:23 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:09:00 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 10/30/2018 9:55 PM, micky wrote:
OT Opioid abuse

I understand that many people were given opioids for pain, caused by
illnesses, accidents, and surgery, and aiui a fairly high percentage of
them became addicted and a fairly high percentage of those addicted have
died or will die because of that.

But wasn't that when no one realized the risks of opioids?

Now that they know the risks and results, haven't doctors become much
less wiling to prescribe them, and for shorter periods, and if not, why
not? If so, are there still new people becoming addicted, or is this a
problem which will mostly go away soon?

Yes, I just saw something about that last week. Prescriptions have
generally been cut in half or more and some are not even prescribed.

Many of the new addictions are voluntary recreational users.
Dr Feelgood is far more responsible than they want to admit. They
offered me some kind of dope pretty much every time I had anything
more than a routine physical or had my teeth cleaned. They argue with
you when you say no. I never needed any of it and didn't take the
script.
Once you get a month or so in your system, it is very hard to quit. My
wife knew lots of construction guys who were 2-3 hits of dope a day
guys. (Vicodin, Percocet etc) At a certain point they either have to
keep coming up with new pains to get new scripts or start using
heroin. They are firmly hooked.

Yes, Dr. Feelgood got a lot of them started but it is the illegal stuff
killing them. You have to curtail both.

Pills kill as many people as smack or fentanal
As long as there are "pain management clinics" where all they do is
sell legal heroin, this is going to be a problem. We seem to have one
of those in every big strip mall.

Also a lot of guys in the construction business where heavy labor is
needed and leads to a lot of problems with the back etc should consider
other lines of work where they will put this body part out of service
that needs drugs to continue.
I think the drugs are a big part of the problem, just watching it in
action. They never let the bad part heal and mask the pain with drugs,
making the injury worse. At a certain point the "pain" they feel could
just be withdrawing from the drug anyway.
I would rather live with pain than be a junkie so I won't take that
**** at all. If I ever get that sick, I would probably take them all
at once.

I have chronic back pain ... and most of the time Ibuprofen works just
fine . But occasionally I want something stronger ... my last scrip for
Tylenol 3 was written in May , a dozen tablets . I still have 5 of them
.. The thing is , this stuff scares me , I made a little mistake while I
was overseas in the early 70's that was too painful to ever want to
repeat .

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and crochety - and armed .
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