Anyway now ya hat is looking at Cochrane Reviews about opioids and opiates.
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Here's a good one: "Adverse events associated with medium- and long-term use of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: an overview of Cochrane Reviews" https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD012509.pub2/full?highlightAbstract=opioid%7Caddiction%7Caddict …
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Here's my favorite paragraph: "There was no data on any of the following prespecified adverse events of interest in any of the included reviews in this overview of Cochrane Reviews: addiction, cognitive dysfunction, depressive symptoms or mood disturbances, (cont)
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(cont) hypogonadism or other endocrine dysfunction, respiratory depression, sexual dysfunction, and sleep apnoea or sleep‐disordered breathing."
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Replying to @kingdomofwench
What’s that you say, when you treat people who are in chronic pain with the meds that actually reduce that pain they DON’T immediately turn into the (racist) stereotype of a mindless addict stealing VCRs to fund their next high? Sounds fake but okay!
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…you're telling me…people whose needs are being met by licit institutions…DON'T need to turn to illicit channels to meet those needs??? Big if true!
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