Family: Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose

AP via The Sacramento Bee ^ | January 19th, 2018 | Unattributed

[dsc]

“especially on those who are not abusing the drugs and have legitimate needs for them.”

Yes, but it’s much easier to punish them than it is to do anything about the actual drug addicts.

[wardaddy]

Technicallynlost to many drugs some of which were illegal here

Multiple Valium family drugs

Xanax

Restoril

Celexa

Oxycodone with and without Tylenol

Various fentanyl products two of which who knows where he got them since they are not prescribed here in Murica outside an operating room

The first two are benzodiazepines which taken alone you could take a handful without overdosing

But when mixed with narcotics especially narcotics like fentanyl which is by volume very powerful compared to oxycodone then you have a recipe for death

So let’s ban pain killers and tranquilizers too

Hell let’s ban everything

And folks like me can just suffer through it

As you can tell the hysteria wears on me

Petty should have had Narcon

I do...an inhaler

Today anyone prescribed long term pain relief goes through this regimen

1)monthly visits

2) drug tests

3) random 8’am pill counts

4) semi annual MRI Or in my case with pacemaker CAT scans

5) annual X-ray

You cannot accept any pain med from any other doc except in hospital

You get one warning

I don’t know how much more control you opiod crisis folks want old people like me to go through

I don’t drink or smoke pot

I take Percocetand lisonopril renexa plavix synthesis metoprolol and aspirin and have zanaflex and soma and prednisone on as needed

It sucks i

I would prefer just diet Dr Pepper and punani

But I’m tired of folks who don’t know me telling me whats best for me

Not directed st you personally...
You’re a quality poster but all this hysteria will only make legal folks like myself lives more troublesome

It already has

Heroin addicts will still get heroin

And mr 20-30 mg oxycodone or hydrocodone folks like me will have to jump through ever more hoops and endure constant lectures of cheap virtue or sad stories

[Pelham]

“Various fentanyl products two of which who knows where he got them “

China would be my guess. Over the internet. The brother of one of my old coworkers died maybe a year ago and it turned out to be from fentanyl that he had been buying that way. And like Petty it wasn’t just one product. Musician, too, and self medicating some injury.

People who want this stuff outside of the medical system seem to be able to find it.

Like you say the restrictions mostly make life difficult for non-abusers who are dealing with real medical issues, intractable pain and so forth. People who wouldn’t have the slightest idea of where to buy street drugs and wouldn’t do it if they could.

I was given fentanyl for a kidney biopsy a couple of years ago- they shoot the probe into your back and I guess they didn’t want me to jump off of the table when they did it- all I noticed is that it made a bunch of minor aches and pains vanish. Nothing special but then I’m not dealing with chronic pain. My sympathy to those who do.

[dinodino]

The fentanyl is coming from China. Not sure how a wall helps with that.

[dsc]

“The fentanyl is coming from China. Not sure how a wall helps with that.”

I’m not out there in the trenches to see with my own eyes, but I have read that it is coming up from Mexico. Where it was made or how it got to Mexico, I don’t know.