the only opioid crisis is the one where we put poison in our pain relief drugs because an easily statistically calculable number of people with chronic pain just fucking dying is regarded as morally preferable to an imagined number of people with chronic pain feeling too good
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Replying to @chaosprime
I’ve heard this before, but it’s never phrased clearly enough for me to understand. Is there an article about this somewhere?
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Replying to @cuniiform
nothing i can find, the search terms are saturated with "information" about how you might as well prescribe people acetaminophen because it's just as good as opioids
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Replying to @chaosprime @cuniiform
if you poke around you can verify that currently prescribed opioids in the US are, as a matter of federal policy, opioid/acetaminophen combos doing the math with that and acetaminophen toxicity is pretty simple
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Replying to @chaosprime @cuniiform
it's beautifully constructed because acetaminophen is "a painkiller" so you can pretend you're putting it with the opioid to help people but if you weren't trying to make sure it would kill them if they took more than you want you'd use ibuprofen or naproxen
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and of course any time you use lethality as a fence in the exercise of biopower you will kill a lot of people for whom the fence is closer than average
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