[nickcarraway]

[Does so]

So non-users will be paying for users?

[DAC21]

“Certainly the drug holds great promise for individuals struggling with opioid addiction. However, there's still a lot we don't know about its effectiveness”

So the FDA doesn't care about the effectiveness of Drugs they approve, whats up with that?

[panaxanax]

This sudden so-called opioid epidemic was created/allowed by the government.

They’re trying to pin it on the doctors by using the lame excuse of over-prescribing pain-relieving meds to an aging population.

Once President Trump builds us our wall and we start burning the poppy fields in Afghanistan you will see this “epidemic” disappear from the daily headlines.

It’s time for a real War On Drugs.

Vote Trump.

[Pearls Before Swine]

That sounds like no fun at all. /S

[BuffaloJack]

Does it work with opiates, too?
Opiates are natural drugs derived from opium. They include opium, codeine, morphine and heroin.
Opioids are SYNTHETIC drugs that mimic opiates.
Narcotics include both opiates and opioids.
The press however, is bent on calling everything an opioid.

[acoulterfan]

buprenorphine ................ This was the drug that was found in the backpack of the Dr.’s son who arrived the day of Prince’s death to try and get him back to California for treatment. Guess this is what was going to be given to him to try and convince him to get treatment.

[Traveler59]

Here's a little, not so fun story. I spent 6 weeks at my sisters bedside in a burn unit. She was trying to light the pilot on an old gas oven when a pocket of gas in the bottom ignited an sent a fireball out the front of the stove. Her arms had 3rd degree burns from the fingertips to the armpits. I was military at the time and was granted emergency leave. I stayed with her because her arms were wrapped and I would change the ice packs on her arms/hands/fingers and feed her when the meals came. She was required twice a day to soak her arms and remove the dead and burned skin so it didn't scar. She received a morphine shot before each ‘treatment’. Can you imagine taking a scrub brush to clean your arms when you have no skin on it? Even with the morphine she would be in tears afterward. Eventually the skin started growing back, but that's another story. She got tired of “Living in a fog” and when they moved her out of the burn unit I had to report back to my unit. My family told me she went cold turkey on the morphine, and that was a side of my sister they never want to see again. My sister and the family have put that little episode behind us, and we are grateful we had each other to get through it. If there is a nonaddictive way to ease withdrawal of opiates then I'm all for it because I've seen the ugly side of it.