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No prescription medication here. Doctors have written scrips for asthma medicine and antidepressants for me pretty regularly. I throw them away; I don't need them.
The first time I had a root canal the endo wrote a scrip for hydrocodone. Since it was my first root canal, I filled the prescription because I had been told over and over that root canals really hurt. I figured I'd take a pill if the pain got unbearable. Between cold compresses and ibuprofen, it was only a little worse than having a cavity filled. The next time I got a root canal, I told the endo to put that prescription pad back in his pocket. I was kind of pissed that I'd paid for TWENTY PILLS of hydrocodone that I didn't need.
Doctor = drug dealer.
I didn't fill my painkiller prescription after my root canal either, but I definitely filled the one for antibiotics.
Sometimes, when I tried it, I felt imaginary raindrops falling on my shoulders....I was indoors and the roof wasn't leaking. Once, after smoking it, I saw an imaginary purple bullseye pattern on the white couch cushion next to the one I was sitting on. It can make some of us hallucinate.
You need to visit Europe. EVERYONE in the UK drinks heavily by US standards. Drug use on the continent and alcohol consumption is visibly higher.
I like my meds for hypertension and cholesterol. The former reduces my risk of stoke and an MI.
I think that the use of anti-depressants has been demonized as well (quite wrongly). Those meds can be a life saver for patients with depression, yet people are reluctant to take them, due to societal stigma of being treated for depression. The press does no favors by supporting this mischaracterization.
Diabetes is under treated as well or poorly treated or undertreated in the US, mostly due to compliance issues.
I personally would have been dead, if it were not for antibiotics and chemotherapy meds.
All in all, I LIKE having access to modern pharmaceuticals.
Why is it that those who need it the most choose to refrain? Is this why they seem so nasty all the time?
I don't voluntarily screw my head up..
stoners do that.
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