Dropping like flies - 72,000 overdoses ...

[dogtag]

Actually, I linked this story not for the addicts overdosing,
but for the map:
How many States can you name ?
I did pretty well on the left to the middle, but apart from
Florida and NY, the right side - not so good. Bad in fact.
But then, I have an excuse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...C-reports.html

[Roadkingtrax]

Quicker the better.

[togor]

Quicker the better.

OD deaths are up under Trump if that's what you mean.

[Tuna]

Yes they are but this all really started under Obama. That is why he signed onto the bill he wanted to stop all of this but like many things in the war against drugs it has not worked. Too many people just want to be high. They don't want to face life. Those that got addicted to pain pills just liked the feeling of being high long after they really needed them. I will bet everyone here knows someone who died with an overdoes. Family members or family of friends all gone far to young most of the time.

[togor]

Put me on that list, Tuna. The opiods rewire the brain of someone who was addicted. Thereafter the want never completely goes away. Add to it the stresses and grinding poverty that often accompany addiction, and it's easy to see why people fall back again and again.

[clintonhater]

The opiods rewire the brain of someone who was addicted.

Didn't rewire my brain when for about 3 wks, I was taking the max dose of that terrible "poison" Oxycontin for the most terrible pain I had ever experienced due to a bad leg injury--I'd have committed suicide without it. Afterwards, over the next month my dosage was reduced as the pain gradually subsided. I had NO desire to continue using it after the worst of the pain went away, and in fact I still have a small quantity of it I never used.

Those poor helpless addicts are weaklings who wanted to continue the thrill of being high--which in fact I never experienced beyond maybe the sense of relaxation that follows a glass of wine. And THAT, believe me, was not worth the extreme constipation caused by long use of opioids!

The "falling back again & again" is the result principally of their basic pre-addiction character flaws--i.e., being a spineless weakling was the prerequisite for the addiction.

[Vern Humphrey]

My wife was a Viet Nam era nurse, I was an Infantryman. We both saw the damage opiods do -- the Army practice in those days was to give opiods for pain, then put the wounded through de-tox after their wounds healed. We're both scared to death of them. My wife had a total hip replacement in December, and still has a lot of pain -- but she has to be in REAL pain before she takes a half tablet, that that's less than once a week.

[togor]

I hope she feels better soon, Vern.

[Major Tom]

My wife and I have used oxycontin for serious bone fractures and have never had the urge to use them illegally.

[S.A. Boggs]

It is clinically know as "Addictive Personality Disorder", if a person is addicted to one substance the person is addicted to all substances. Unfortunately many have to hit rock bottom to have the desire to quit and often it is too late. Many will never quit using and there lies the danger to society. How much is society willing to spend on those who have no desire of quitting? Should three OD's and then you are out be applied? When I was in severe pain during my stint with cancer, I had at my disposal OxyContin in liquid form to use. I am a coward, pain hurts addiction hurts worse! I did what Carlos did and placed myself mentally into a bubble to escape the pain, it wasn't easy but it worked. When I disposed of my pain meds with my Sheriff buddy my bottle of Oxy was still unopened.
Sam

[clintonhater]

I am a coward, pain hurts addiction hurts worse! I did what Carlos did and placed myself mentally into a bubble to escape the pain, it wasn't easy but it worked. When I disposed of my pain meds with my Sheriff buddy my bottle of Oxy was still unopened.
Sam

Good for you if that method worked, but unless YOU are afflicted with "APD," your avoidance of prescribed pain meds was an absolutely needless sacrifice! MILLIONS like me have used them without turning into addicts, but the media is not interested in reporting such a boring story when it would interfere with the sob-story, take-no-personal-responsibility, narrative they are promoting.

[Vern Humphrey]

During the Civil War, morphine was all they had for long term pain. There was a song called "Soldier's joy"

The surgeon hands me a bottle
and says "drink all you can."
He turns around again
with a hacksaw in his hand,

Give me some more of that Soldier's Joy
you know what I mean
I can't take no more of this pain
My leg is turning green

It's 25 cents for whiskey
25 cents for beer
25 cents for morphine
Get me out of here!


After the war, morphine addiction was called "the Soldier's Disease."

[blackhawknj]

October 9, 2015, at about 0130 I was bicycling home-and hit by a drunk. They gave me a tablet of Percocet at the hospital and a prescription for it-which I did not bother with.
On another board a member said his wife had a prescription for Oxycontin-which she hadn't touched in months. Some her friends came to visit, asked to use the bathroom......yes.
IMHO opiod deaths are like AIDS-they are an affliction of lifestyle, people make bad choices, do stupid things, engage in immoral behaviors....
"The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves."

[clintonhater]

During the Civil War, morphine was all they had for long term pain. There was a song called "Soldier's joy"

The surgeon hands me a bottle
and says "drink all you can."
He turns around again
with a hacksaw in his hand,

Give me some more of that Soldier's Joy
you know what I mean
I can't take no more of this pain
My leg is turning green

It's 25 cents for whiskey
25 cents for beer
25 cents for morphine
Get me out of here!


After the war, morphine addiction was called "the Soldier's Disease."

Doubt that song was sung by Confederate soldiers. Great Humanitarian Abe Lincoln embargoed ether during the war, despite a personal appeal from Jeff Davis. Unless there was a Southern lab capable of making morphine (doubtful, I think), wounded Confederates bit the bullet.

[dryheat]

The uncle of my old girlfriend told me, when her brothers came to visit, they taped a note on the bathroom mirror; there's nothing here that belongs to you. Heavy smokers, drinkers, druggers. They're all dead now. My ex girlfriend is still alive, but she's a drunk( the ex part).