Posted on 08/28/2020 6:58:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Another plan would be to hand out fentanyl like candy to the rioters and let nature take its course.
The government rarely acts responsibly and constantly wants to remove decisions from citizens. This makes citizens dependent and less responsible. Each choice that you do not make leads to less responsibility. This, by the way, is a cycle because less responsible citizens end up working for government. One day there will be no one responsible and we will be completely lead by the irresponsible.
The last thing I want to see is the government being involved in the choices of medicine my doctor prescribes for me. Just take a look at what has happened with the politics in medicine with the ChiCom Flu.
It's a shame that people make poor decisions, but that should not affect my freedoms and liberties. I believe it is absolutely clear to everyone that there are negatives to taking opioids, but there are positives as well. Life is like this. Responsible people make decisions based on risk mitigation. You certainly won't hear any politician speak like that because they want to make choices for you under a veil of safety. The weak minded and fearful just love this. They are willing to trade freedom and liberty for a false sense of security. They are the useful idiots.
I was prescribed Vicodin for almost twenty years and never was addicted, I did however build a resistance and subsequent allergic reaction to it, I never used my monthly allotment until into the following month and never had any issues stopping. I am now prescribed Tramadol and again only take when I really need it, but Tramadol which is a imitation Opioid is really only a baby step above Ibuprofen and Tylenol. Tramadol was actually an over the counter med before some control freaks got it classified Oioid and got it restricted.
You are ignorant to the therapeutic uses of fentanyl - i hope you are not involved with public policy decisions. If you or a loved one is unfortunate to have chronic severe pain you would not be so glib. Fentanyl transdermal patches have been a Godsend to many who have intractable pain.
I don't think I was glib at all. It was simply an opinion based on one article. I never presented it as a fact. Responding as you did with phrases like "you are ignorant", "I hope you are not involved with important policy decisions", etc places you in the class of snarky FReepers who cannot resist a chance to insult someone with whom you disagree. Even if the person is wrong (and I may well have been), there is no need to be such a prick. You could have simply explained to me why you thought I was wrong instead of being an insulting jerk. Don't bother to responding to any more of my posts. I don't need any more snark.
“The son became addicted, turned to heroin and died when unbeknownst to him; he injected a dose of pure fentanyl that was provided by the drug dealer.”
This is tragic. I don’t even want to think about his father’s pain.
However, the VA reasoned from cases like this that denying veterans medically appropriate treatment for pain is morally acceptable.
Chinese Synthetic crap. I called about removing Fen from the market, answer, Military in war may need it. As if Morphine and Dilaudid were not enough.
I got a dose of fentanyl when in the emergency room for a gangrenous gall bladder. I am damned glad to have gotten it. It took 9+ pain to about 4. Let doctors and patients decide. Cops, politicians and bureaucrats give not one shit about human suffering.
it’s time to think of cars and pick up trucks as weapons of mass destruction....thousands are killed in accidents in vehicles every year..../s
It’s time to think of Abortion Clinics as weapons of mass destruction.....
I just can’t get worked up about Fentanyl abuse...It is too useful a drug in medical applications to have physicians afraid to prescribe it for palliative care and short term pain relief because another Temperance Movement Jihad is launched against Fentanyl by a bunch of crying karens. That said its potency per gram is frightening and I wouldn’t want to be in an area where a terrorist has wrapped around several kilos of it in a dispersal cannister or bomb and set the device in a high place in a city. There wouldn’t be enough repeat doses of Narcan in a given area to treat those affected.
I often wonder if the common availability of Naloxone increases or decreases the rate of fentanyl/heroin addiction and subsequent overdose deaths.
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My wife had her gall bladder removed a couple of years ago. After surgery, she complained about the pain and she was also given fentanyl, which worked very well.
The takeaway from Fentanyl Floyd’s situation is the dangers of drug abuse, much worse than any racism that still lingers.
I know someone who contends that drug use and distribution should be considered a victimless crime. Selling aspirin is not illegal, and not dangerous, but it is a drug. Reality is that some drugs are needed, and some drugs are poison. Which means they kill. Plenty of drugs kill already, does it help to add one more to the list. Yes. Poison is poison.
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