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You know what else is stupid? Pain management in the US. I get that you need to be careful about addiction, but the idea that people should have to suffer pain because we're having a pain medication "reefer madness" spasm is idiocy.
The guy just kept taking them until his teeth stopped hurting. Why is the alternative that he just has to put up with being in pain?
Yes it is. I have had, over my 40 years as migraineuse (they started in my teens) 5 intractable migraines. Meaning less than once every 5 years I get one that lasts days, I cannot eat or drink, just puke. I used to be able to go to my doctor and get shot up with opiates and Phenergan, so much of it, they would do one dose, come back later, another, another, another, until finally I would say "it still hurts but I don't care" and go home nodding like a junkie, sleep and wake up with no headache, and, importantly, NO desire for more drugs.
Now the opiates are not allowed because they didn't work. But nothing works on the status migraine. Now they give you a cold cocktail IV of some sort of Advil and nausea medicine and it doesn't work either, and costs $2,000 because it can only be done in the emergency room not the doctor office.
It's adding insult to injury. There has to be some way to make these available for acute situations at least.
The fact that the drug companies lied about the addictiveness of their product so doctors were handing them out like candy didn't help.
Yeah, it was rampant here in Jersey, and we're definitely still feeling the effects. Things that didn't need opiates got opiates. And guess what? Lotta people all of a sudden need them for life. And it wasn't just Oh, here's your script. Doctors were knowingly abusing it for profit. So like with most things in life, some people ruin it for everyone else.
We have never had good pain management here. Claiming babies can't feel pain, black people hace higher pain tolerance, etc etc. then we swung into really permissive use with oxycodone for a while.
Yeah, I've dealt with massive tooth pain before. Given a choice between going through a week of that pain, and maybe killing myself with pills, I'll take my chances with the pills.