Freepers are so incredibly reactionary about drugs period
They like things simple and easy to condemn
Because they don’t educate themselves a lot and often are ignorant about specifics
Drug concern trolls
But and this always tickles me
They love love love booze
How many threads are interspersed at night with “I think I’ll go have another drink or if they are older it’s a cocktail “
Threads with pics of drinks or bars all celebrated
Totally oblivious they are celebrating Americas real number one drug problem
Those of us who have dealt with drunks close to us get it
The accepted turd in the punch bowl
I have acute cervical arthritis with spurs like a fighting rooster
Moderate opiate use simply lubricates it enough I can function although I prefer steroids you simply can’t take them all the time
If you are disciplined you can take opiates forever with no ill effect if as I said disciplined which I am
The Tylenol they adulterate Percocet with stupidly with in my view will harm you much quicker
My alternative is surgery with ambiguous results predicted
After two open hearts and a pacemaker etc I prefer medication over somebody cutting open my throat to get to my neck
Sorry if that offends the Cotton Mathers here on opiates
And you are so right
Hospice
I’ve cared for in the past 20 years four folks dying and two were at home
All had opiate hospice relief
The notion that is opiate abuse is preposterous and bloodcurdling idiocy
Ask any soldier wounded in battle if that dose on the chopper being medivaced was helpful?
You just can’t believe folks sometimes
Those who know, don't say; those who say, don't know.
I think yours are old arguments.
Right now, the number of opiate abusers in the US has quadrupled in five years. If addicts can no longer get the pharmaceuticals they want, heroin is a quarter of the price of black market opiates.
And because heroin is expensive, it is cut with the dirt cheap Fentanyl (100 times stronger than morphine) as well as its equally potent chemical analogs. Fentanyl and its analogs have already killed hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans, and shows signs of killing many more.
So yeah, opiates are good, when you have to have them. But if at all possible they should be avoided, or you should get off them ASAP. Because if you get addicted, your life can turn to crap.