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We're in agreement about a lot of things but if you read Dreamland you might find it very interesting regarding the role (and culpability) of pharmaceutical companies regarding opiates. If you read it I'd love to hear what you think of it.
As a couple of Pharmacists have repeatedly told me "Drug manufacturers knew full well that Oxy was highly addictive when they invented it and yet advertised it as something else"...
Most of what I have read / listened to says it is clear that the company who makes it was complicit in down playing the addictive nature. They marketed the slow release as less addictive due to not delivering a big "high" at the onset, but slowly released.
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As a couple of Pharmacists have repeatedly told me "Drug manufacturers knew full well that Oxy was highly addictive when they invented it and yet advertised it as something else"...
RIGHT. And they were sued, and they lost. THEY WERE GUILTY. And by the time they were called to task, the cat had been let out of the bag and the downward cycle had begun.
The reason I keep recommending the book Dreamland is because it really gets into ALL facets of blame, if you will - from pharmaceutical companies, to doctors, and pain clinics, to legislation, to the patients/consumers themselves, to the drug traffickers. There's enough blame to go around, believe me. This particular book doesn't demonize any one group unfairly - it's just trying to get to the root causes (plural) of the US opiate problem.
Because we DO have a serious problem, whether people agree with that assessment or not. The emergency responder logs attest to that, if nothing else.
I sure hope you never have major surgery, cancer or a horrible illness.
Right? DH just had shoulder surgery and if the doctor told him to go and take two aspirin (tylenol, whatever...), I would have punched him in the throat.
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Most of what I have read / listened to says it is clear that the company who makes it was complicit in down playing the addictive nature. They marketed the slow release as less addictive due to not delivering a big "high" at the onset, but slowly released.
I was reading somewhere that the slow-release coating actually backfired, because people chasing highs went from swallowing the pills to snorting them, and the latter feeds an addiction more intensely.
Right? DH just had shoulder surgery and if the doctor told him to go and take two aspirin (tylenol, whatever...), I would have punched him in the throat.
Amen.
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Clearly you have never been in excruciating pain. Get back to us you have experienced it.
Clearly you have never been in excruciating pain. Get back to us you have experienced it.
In addition to that, Tylenol is the main cause of acute liver failure. It is often combined with many narcotic painkillers- Norco usually has 325mg per pill of acetaminophen, for example, but if you are popping back tons of Tylenol, you quickly get up to the 4000 daily limit. Many people who OD on opioids are actually having issues with the acetaminophen and not necessarily the the opioids themselves because they are taking them AND Tylenol.
In addition to that, Tylenol is the main cause of acute liver failure. It is often combined with many narcotic painkillers- Norco usually has 325mg per pill of acetaminophen, for example, but if you are popping back tons of Tylenol, you quickly get up to the 4000 daily limit. Many people who OD on opioids are actually having issues with the acetaminophen and not necessarily the the opioids themselves because they are taking them AND Tylenol.
This!
Most people don't know this...
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