The issue is that people become addicted while taking prescription opiates, and turn to street drugs because they are so much cheaper and more potent. Statistics on deaths from overdose do not necessarily include data on how the addiction occurred.
I have a prescription for opiates right now, 2 mg tablets. They make me feel loopy. There are warnings in the use instruction about how they can cause addiction.
Be very very careful...this is how it starts.
A close friend of mine was on them after a car accident.
A year later she was an addict, she lost her job and 15 years later still struggles with it.
That’s what the article addresses and says that the CDC info proves it’s not the case.
“I have a prescription for opiates right now, 2 mg tablets. They make me feel loopy.”
You have judged that feeling loopy is better than enduring your otherwise pain. I think I’d reach the same conclusion.
The author of the article almost suggests that doctors’ limiting opiate prescriptions is a bad thing because it leads patients to get illegal drugs.
And I can rarely get one now for 5 mg for post surgery or post removal of 11 teeth. I took 5 mg twice a day of Oxycontin for Intractable Pain for 5 yrs, If I missed a dose all I felt was pain increase. Never a craving for them. But when pain spikes into Hypertension it could KILL me, I’m a Cardio patient who can’t take hypertension drugs, to many GI side effects I already have 5 of those don’t need a bleeding ulcer to boot. I see 4 Specialist.