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June 8, 2014
This century so far more than 100,000 people in the United States have died from overdoses of prescription opioids.
Dishonest drug companies, careless, supine and cowardly doctors, and egotistical patients who will not take no for an answerhave between them caused an epidemic that, had it been attributable to a bacterium or a virus, would have caused widespread panic and calls for all the research resources of modern medicine to be brought to bear upon the problem. This hasn’t happened: Why not? Part of the reason, surely, is that the victims of the epidemic are also the cause of it, or at least willing participants in their own disaster.Vicodin Ingestion Syndrome - Taki's Magazine
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 8, 2014 1:33 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Evolution in action.
Posted by: Fat Man at June 8, 2014 3:35 PM
That's right Fat Man. those who perished were weak and stupid. We don't need those genes in the pool.
"Dishonest drug companies, careless, supine and cowardly doctors ..." Uh, no and hell no. A good writing croaker is a person worth his weight.
My uncle Letsgo Lozko used to say:
“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
Posted by: chasmatic at June 8, 2014 6:06 PM
"Dishonest drug companies, careless, supine and cowardly doctors, and egotistical patients who will not take no for an answer"
I don't agree. It may be popular to blame the drug companies or the doctor or the patient but it's not true. I know people who are prescribed vicodin and some of the other drugs like it and I have to say these people are not "normal". It isn't the drug companies fault that they are not normal. It isn't the doctors fault and it isn't usually the patients fault. Probably 10% to 20% of the population have some mental illness from bi-polar to more serious psychosis. Contrary to what psychiatrists will tell you non-drug treatments don't help them or cure them it merely makes the psychiatrists very welathy. sadly for many of them drugs don't really work either but for many it does. Most of the "overdoses" are exactly that; the patient takes more then they should partly because they aren't normal don'tcha know and because they have/develop a cavalier attitude towards these drugs.
Posted by: GoneWithTheWind at June 8, 2014 6:12 PM
Drugs don't kill. People kill. Nobody is forcing them to take the stuff.
"Most of the "overdoses" are exactly that; the patient takes more then they should partly because they aren't normal don'tcha know and because they have/develop a cavalier attitude towards these drugs."
Done in by their own hand.
Posted by: chasmatic at June 8, 2014 10:03 PM
The trouble is, and there is no getting around it, that opioids are a shortcut around the jaggedness of real life to a warm fuzzy lighthearted place. Not everyone can let that go.
But of course they have to let it go..
Posted by: pbird at June 9, 2014 7:02 AM
What I have seen is gross mismanagement and incompetent communication, from the bottom to the top, and unbelievable gullibility on the part of the patients.
The doctor squiggles some shit on the script, the 19 yo dizzy ditz misinterprets, the the pharmacist doesn't correlate, next thing you know the old fuk is laying on the floor convulsing and foaming and 911 is called, sometimes in time.
When my time comes I won't be their huckleberry.
Posted by: ghostsniper at June 9, 2014 8:57 AM