New powerful painkiller has abuse experts worried

The Examiner ^ | Chris Hawley12/36/2011

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I think all drugs should be outlawed on the grounds that somebody somewhere might find a way to abuse them.

[nuconvert]

I don’t know how people even take Hydrocodone. It tears up my stomach even taken with food.

[dragnet2]

Big pharma has half the U.S. population on drugs.

[baltodog]

I broke both of my arms last Christmas, and I was prescribed Monster Freaking Lortabs...1200 mg, I believe.
All they did was make me feel like I had to poop, in the most God-awful way.
UN-FREAKING-BEARABLE feeling of having to poop (even though I didn't have to).
After 3 of them, I switched to OTC Ibuprofen...
(Sorry if this got too personal or graphic...just my only experience with hydrocozone.)

[calex59]

Yeah, we can’t have people doing what they want with their bodies. How freedom loving is that? F*** the government and the horse they rode in on. And f*** their regulations that interfere with what I want to do with my life. I do not do drugs but I do other things that the government thinks they have the right to control and restrict. BS, they do not have this right and we need to take back our country.

[TASMANIANRED]

They tried it with alcohol

[WestwardHo]

Your post is interesting. A friend just passed away from cancer. He had the same complaint. Maybe it was his medication and not the cancer that made him so uncomfortable.
I don’t know what oral pain medicine he was using at home.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Whenever I am getting a pain pill I ask the doctor to prescribe codeine.

It's the only thing that actually kills pain for me. Everything else just makes me delirious.

And even that doesn't work very long. Most of the time I just take nothing.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

That's ridiculous.

There are people who need them legitimately. What about those who are in severe pain? The junkie will always get their drugs. Let's be reasonable.

[MetaThought]

Are you guys sure it was the hydrocodone and not the acetaminophen that caused the problems?

[null and void]

So how did it turn out in the end?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They tried it with alcohol

They'll try it again.

The whole idea is to make criminals of as many of the peasants as possible.

[bigheadfred]

I think all drugs should be outlawed on the grounds that somebody somewhere might find a way to abuse them.

There goes any chance of me enjoying the golden years.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Tell me you're kidding. Tell me you are just pretending you didn't recognize that as sarcasm.

I was reacting to the title. A new drug comes out, and the first thing we have to do is wring our hands in anxiety that something might go wrong. State-controlled media is so predictable.

[dljordan]

“I think all drugs should be outlawed on the grounds that somebody somewhere might find a way to abuse them.”

No, lets just outlaw them for use by Congress and the DEA.

[bigheadfred]

Having two broken arms is a pain in the a$$.

[dljordan]

Oh, and their families.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No, lets just outlaw them for use by Congress and the DEA.

And let's create a special "health care" system just for them, administered by us.

Turnabout is fair play.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Having two broken arms is a pain in the a$$.

And your arms don't feel that good, either.

[Glenn]

I don’t know how people even take Hydrocodone.

I'm with you. Tried after rotator cuff surgery earlier this year and it made me dog sick. Worse than any pain.