I saw it on the net!!

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I am too busy for recreational activities of those sorts. Growing up sucks.

 

No, I drink Shirley Temples and like blue cheese dressing. Cheerwine is delicious.

 

Cheerwine is delicious.

 

This is going nowhere...

 

I took oxycodone in the hospital. It made me feel weird. It also caused me to be constipated. I'd rather be in pain than to be constipated.

 

I don't think you need opioids if you remember Susan George.

 

I don't think you need opioids if you remember Susan George.

Would Susan cause me to be constipated?

 

I think not.

 

She looks like she might be a bit dirty.

 

Did you two come over here together? This should up the forum post count in the off season here.

 

Oh, I forgot to mention the opioids I have been given. After I crashed and broke my hip they gave me morphine the night of the crash. After surgery the next morning they gave me Percocet and I had one bottle of them after discharge from the hospital. I didn't take all of them. They gave me another prescription of them when I broke my right shoulder blade and collar bone, I didn't take those. Last year when I crashed and broke a rib and separated my left shoulder the ER prescribed them again. I took a couple of them. Then Oct. 28 I had surgery on my shoulder and was giving another prescription for Percocet and I filled the prescription but never opened the bottle.

 

My doctors and nurses always seem surprised when I refuse the pain killers. I guess most people like them. If I was in really excruciating pain, I would probably take them, but just for regular post-op pain, I'd rather take Advil.

 

I had no pain after my shoulder surgery. My wife couldn't believe it. She kept trying to get me to take something for pain. I told her I didn't have any.

 

There is a joke in there somewhere.

 

I'll gladly accept an opioid prescription if it's offered by the 'doc, but I have to really be hurting before I'll actually take the pills. When I do, I am usually able to transition to OTC painkillers before running out of the heavy duty stuff.

I appreciate having the option, as I've experienced good results the few times I've actually needed to take opioids for (non-chronic) pain. I've also seen enough of what can happen when they are abused to be downright scared of even a small risk of addiction.

I kicked a nicotine habit almost 10 years ago, and still occasionally face the intermittent, near overwhelming desire for cigarettes. I don't want to even imagine dealing with similar cravings for opioids, and from what I've read, things can happen quickly. I'll use them if I need them, but in as small an amount and for as short a time as I'm able to manage.

 

I kicked a nicotine habit almost 10 years ago, and still occasionally face the intermittent, near overwhelming desire for cigarettes.

I think some people have a much harder time with this than others. My mother, despite dire warnings from all her doctors, smoked until the day she died. I, OTOH, quit when I was still a teenager and it never fazed me. Just lucky, I guess.

 

Forum formats are the only way Road Runner will stay in touch with me.
( I tried to quote you LJ but I failed )

 

( I tried to quote you LJ but I failed )

Just hit the "reply" button in the bottom right of the post.

 

I am, not working for me.

 

Plus, I see LJ has been two-timing us for a long time.

 

Ever since Florida yankey’s love forum invasion a long time ago

 

Opioid addiction is a huge epidemic and despite the warnings people still don't seem to be aware of it. It's especially rising in middle aged men as we're more likely to need stronger pain meds or have an operation of some sort. Things like Codeine are Opioids and some people may not realize it.

There's a movement among some doctors to stop prescribing pain meds and tell people to suck it up because of the addiction problem.

My wife is a drug court coordinator of two counties here in NY and the problem with regular people getting addicted to prescription drugs is about as bad as regular druggies on her program as well as in general with the problem here. And a lot of people are dying from opioid addiction, in this area it's a regular occurrence versus people dying from illegal drugs.

It's a huge problem and for once the media isn't exaggerating - if anything it's becoming an epidemic that isn't reported enough.

 

There's a movement among some doctors to stop prescribing pain meds and tell people to suck it up because of the addiction problem.

You would think the doctors would be afraid of lawsuits from the people who became addicted or from their families. I still can't wrap my head around 1 out of 3 Americans being prescribed opioids in a single year!

 

Nope, and I have back issues. I refuse to take pills that I don't need. Here in Europe it is very different, you don't just get pills, you really have to ask for them and kind of prove that you are in pain.

 

I was recently prescribed Fentanyl and was told it would help by the Dr. I was a bit out of it and didn't ask any questions. I did look it up when I got it home and when I read painkiller/opioid I decided against. There was a little pain but no more than I can tolerate without drugs. I rarely, maybe once a decade take aspirin so I know I'm not taking this. I've never liked pharmaceuticals and at this point in my life pretty sure I never will.

 

Here the stats from the American Society of Addiction Medicine according to their 2016 facts and figures docs (https://www.asam.org):


Opioid Addiction

• Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illicit drug heroin as well as the licit
prescription pain relievers oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, fentanyl and
others.
• Opioids are chemically related and interact with opioid receptors on nerve cells in the brain
and nervous system to produce pleasurable effects and relieve pain.

• Addiction is a primary, chronic and relapsing brain disease characterized by an individual
pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors.
• Of the 20.5 million Americans 12 or older that had a substance use disorder in 2015, 2
million had a substance use disorder involving prescription pain relievers and 591,000 had
a substance use disorder involving heroin.3• It is estimated that 23% of individuals who use heroin develop opioid addiction.4
National Opioid Overdose Epidemic

• Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 52,404 lethal drug
overdoses in 2015. Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic, with 20,101 overdose deaths
related to prescription pain relievers, and 12,990 overdose deaths related to heroin in
2015.

• From 1999 to 2008, overdose death rates, sales and substance use disorder treatment
admissions related to prescription pain relievers increased in parallel. The overdose death
rate in 2008 was nearly four times the 1999 rate; sales of prescription pain relievers in
2010 were four times those in 1999; and the substance use disorder treatment admission
rate in 2009 was six times the 1999 rate.
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• In 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written for opioids, which is more than enough to
give every American adult their own bottle of pills.
• Four in five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers.

• 94% of respondents in a 2014 survey of people in treatment for opioid addiction said they
chose to use heroin because prescription opioids were “far more expensive and harder to
obtain.”
Impact on Special Populations

Adolescents (12 to 17 years old)

• In 2015, 276,000 adolescents were current nonmedical users of pain reliever, with
122,000 having an addiction to prescription pain relievers.

• In 2015, an estimated 21,000 adolescents had used heroin in the past year, and an
estimated 5,000 were current heroin users. Additionally, an estimated 6,000
adolescents had heroin a heroin use disorder in 2014.
• People often share their unused pain relievers, unaware of the dangers of nonmedical
opioid use. Most adolescents who misuse prescription pain relievers are given them for
free by a friend or relative.
• The prescribing rates for prescription opioids among adolescents and young adults
nearly doubled from 1994 to 2007.


Women

• Women are more likely to have chronic pain, be prescribed prescription pain relievers,
be given higher doses, and use them for longer time periods than men. Women may
become dependent on prescription pain relievers more quickly than men.12
• 48,000 women died of prescription pain reliever overdoses between 1999 and 2010.

 

This is a depressing thread to me...

 

You probably need a prescription for Prozac.

 

I recently saw a news item on TV that stated that during 2015, over 1/3 of all Americans had been prescribed an opioid drug for pain. This seems unbelievable, but it was on national news and is on the internet, so it must be true. I have never taken an opioid, except when they were given to me in the hospital after one of my crashes.

How about you? Are you all constantly hopped up on oxycodone and fentanyl?

Sounds about right. If you ever have had major dental work done, the dentist usually prescribes a couple of Percocets. In case I did have a problem with pain in the middle of the night, I have gotten many pills over the years. But I have given all the pills back to the pharmacy for disposal. I have never needed them.

If you end up in the hospital with a major injury, I know the doctor will prescribe an opiate.

The disconnect may be that a prescription can be only one or two doses, pills never taken, or never fulfilled.

My wife, when she shattered her femur, was offered enough opiates to drop an elephant. Of course, she only took one pill before her therapy sessions which were incredibly painful. She ended up with a pocket full of unfulfilled prescriptions.

Luckily we have not needed anything recently.

 

Good article from Men's Health about how easy it is to get hooked - https://www.menshealth.com/health/hooked-on-painkillers

There are also so-called herbal supplements like Kratom that are considered opioids, according to the FDA.

 

My velomobile *is* my opioid!

 

Those things actually look cool. Most of the ones I have seen look stupid. Where do you find something like that and what price range do they start at. The one in the back really looks cool.

 

I want to try one of those so badly, but I don't know of anyone in this area who has one

It's interesting, BTW - there are a lot of articles on overcoming opioid addiction with exercise. A number of those whom my wife work with have exchanged their drug or alcohol addictions for exercise 'addictions'.