Im the opposite...lol. If I have a craving for something sugary... Ill eat enough of it to make me ill and I vomit... craving forever eliminated! I did the same with cigarettes, booze, money, craigslist deals, etc. I know this strategy probably wont work well with opiates...
I can't believe I just spent 45 minutes watching that, but it was, in fact, pretty good. Pretty amazing what they had going on in FL. Doesn't sound too far off from the story I told here a few weeks ago about a neighbor physician who works at a pain management clinic who is given quotas for how much pain meds they must prescribe. I tend to be a bit cold hearted about the issue, but the documentary as well as the current state of affairs may soften me a bit. I don't know squat about heroin or these pills or how similar they are, but it does seem a bit ludicrous after 40 years of the war on drugs to allow these highly addictive pills on the market so readily. And, like all other crises in our lifetime, this will require taxpayer funding to resolve
His wife died very suddenly and she was his world. He lost his shit after that. Even on meth he wasn't a piece of shit. Another homeboy of mine doing life in chino who worked with the both of us ran into him there and dude tried to talk to him. My boy is AB and was obligated to assault him. Apparently dudes having a really rough time on the inside.... which he should. Anyway back on topic
I'm in Pikeville and there has been a problem with "pain pills" ever since I moved here 16 years ago.
One of the doctors they interviewed was working in the ER at the local hospital. At the time of the documentary controls over what was being prescribed had already become pretty strict and doctors were pretty wary of passing out prescription. Pharmacies were being burglarized, sometimes by the pharmacy owners themselves. The pain clinics in FL became the go to source for pills. There was a documentary MTV did in the early 2000s on the problem that was really good too. I don't know if it's online anywhere. There was one guy in particular I felt really bad for. He had his own logging business in SE Kentucky, got hurt at work, and needed surgery. Back when Oxycontin was brought to market it was advertised as being safer than other opiates in terms of risk of addiction. He got hooked on them after his surgery and lost everything. He'd really worked hard and done well for himself. Had a nice house, wife and children, successful business. I've had painful injuries before and never had trouble getting hooked on the pain meds, but they really took control of that guy. I suppose some people are more susceptible to getting hooked. On a side note, the Vanguard series as a whole was excellent. It was on Current TV, which became Al Jazeera America. They did a documentary on the heroin epidemic in Boston. They interviewed a mortician whose son had died of an overdose. He actually embalmed his son. When asked why he did it himself, he said because it was the last thing he'd ever get to do for his boy. That was a punch in the gut. I felt so bad for him.
It was probably around '98 or '99 the first time I heard about Oxycontin. Other pills were around before then, but it rapidly became an epidemic after Oxycontin became available.
What G'ment folks should actually do the fkn job and get results? Oh sorry, just fill a job slot and collect your pay, keep identifying problems and move on to the next crisis...I get it.
next to my dentist's practice is a pain doctor. last appointment i said to my doc : nice x-type you got there (black) - he said LOL, that one belongs to the pain doctor. it's his Monday car. dresses all black, different car for each day of the week. nurses are reporting now that on sign-in sheets people mention under allergies: no opioids (too easy to get hooked) if they (gov or above) wanted it to go away, they'd ban that shit.
And yet those banked drugs remain in the bank unless required. How do all of those racers manage to get through the day without diving into that stash? As far as I'm concerned they could sell it OTC, it will sit there unless I actually need it.
Not just opioids, but currently 1/4 of the US female population is on some form of prescription psychiatric drug.....and this article was written back in 2011, I have a sneaking suspicion that number is probably climbing. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/21/one-in-four-women-psych-meds
I am with you. There is zero chance of me ever getting hooked on that shit but I really do not agree with even keeping stuff for "an emergency". If I am hurt bad enough to take that shit at a race track there is a pretty good chance they are hauling me away in an ambulance and the Dr's will see enough damage that they will give me what I need to deaden the pain at that point.
That is always a viable alternative to traditional pain management. Not sure I would want to go to Dr. Dern for an injury though...
