Yeah, not saying it isn’t an opioid...it is just that I haven’t seen/read about an addict using a patch.
“Yeah, not saying it isn’t an opioid...it is just that I haven’t seen/read about an addict using a patch.”
One of our regulars used to chew his fentanyl patches. When we would show up, he would barely be breathing. He finally chewed one too many.
I believe the patches, when available on the street, are chewed. A very stupid way to die, if a person chews more than a small section of a fentanyl patch.
At our hospital we’ve had addicts come in who OD’ed by chewing om stolen fentanyl patches.
Yet don’t confuse me with an extremist anti opiate anti pain med luddite. I think a lot of legitimate pain sufferers are getting the shaft and in enough numbers that it could start affecting vote numbers if an organized effort were started. Addicts, we will always have but chronic pain sufferers should not be lumped in with them.