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
This always fucks me up. I had a lecturer who literally described paracetamol/acetaminophen as a "Hepatotoxic compound added to prevent opiate abuse," during one of the lessons. And everyone just accepted it, even i did at the time.
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Chaos Retweeted Aaron Lief
and why not, everybody knows that Opiate Abuse is a Crisis that we must Do Something About, it's on every news outlet i guess this miserable fucking apologist over here didn't have the same instructor as you thoughhttps://twitter.com/AaronLief/status/1091867736043442176 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
I can see why you would come to that conclusion. I personally believe in decriminalization of drugs, and acetaminophen is only a negative when opioids are used recreationally. But the acute patient has seen a decrease in opioid mortality due to combination drugs such as these.pic.twitter.com/wFZRnahgmZ
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"only a negative when opioids are used recreationally" i'm sure this woman's next of kin are greatly comforted knowing that she died to to the moral vice involved in her recreational self-treatment for fluhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042947/Woman-25-dies-paracetamol-overdose-self-medicating-Lemsip-cough-medicine-pills-cold.html …
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Replying to @chaosprime
I'm not clear on your point here? That isnt an opioid. In my original tweet I stated acetaminophen can kill you in large doses. Opioids will kill you in much smaller doses.
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Replying to @AaronLief @chaosprime
Almost any pharmaceutical will kill you in large enough doses. But the synergistic effect of opioid/NSAID combos allow you to take a lower dose of each for greater pain relief, reducing the negative side effects of both the NSAID and the opioid.
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Replying to @AaronLief
incoherent with "hepatotoxic compound added to prevent opiate abuse" incoherent with predominant choice of high toxicity acetaminophen over low toxicity ibuprofen and naproxen
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Replying to @chaosprime
I think were missing a bit of the nuance here with broad sweeping statements. NSAID addition to "reduce abuse" was because studies found that if you prescribe a lower dose then people are less likely to get addicted, and by adding NSAID you can give less opioid. Not to kill ppl.
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Replying to @AaronLief @chaosprime
Have you ever needed to give a stage 4 kidney failure patient pain relief without causing respiratory depression? Hydrocodone with acetaminophen will save them from so much suffering with a much lower risk of mortality.
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i have not, but that sounds just lovely as a treatment option to have available at your medical discretion and judgment, maybe not so lovely as the only thing you're allowed by politicians and bureaucrats to make available
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