I’m not drunk. What is hypocritical about my post?
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The fact you’re drunk. You can’t start working on your problem while you’re in denial.
Not drunk.
I figured you were driven to drink with despair over the prospect of being unable to obtain large quantities of loperamide whenever you wanted.
I don’t personally have the shits. I hate seeing things removed from the market because fucking irresponsible assholes abuse or misuse them. Shit tablets, cold medicine, lawn darts.
Chiropractors cannot prescribe drugs.
What makes you think it’s being taken off the market? Even Sudafed is still available.
The article said someone wants it packed in blister packs so large quantities are less convenient to buy.
You say you don’t have the shits but I see an asshole spewing something.
This is what I don’t understand. You can severely harm or kill yourself with just about any OTC medication out there if you take too much, so why doesn’t the FDA just pull everything and make it all prescription only? If you’re going to allow some meds to be OTC, then you’re allowing that there will be a (probably small) number of people who will hurt themselves with those meds.
This is probably coming to the fore right now because people who can’t get opioids prescription anymore are either turning to loperamide (you have to take massive amounts to get a high and I can’t even imagine the excruciating constipation that would ensue) or taking extra amounts of NSAIDs to get pain relief.
I wonder what will happen with acetaminophen? That can hurt you too if taken in too large a dose or with alcohol.
They may still be available, but they arent freely sold. I have to go to the pharmacy counter, show my ID and get a limited supply.
I can see how that’s a enormous injustice.
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What sucks is that loperamide is used more for withdrawals than for getting high. Supposedly even if you combine high dose loperamide with a PGP inhibitor it is supposedly not much better than taking a vicodin. People aren’t really using it for abuse they are using it to help with detox from stronger opiates. Its the same with Kratom, people use it to detox from heavier opiates, so politicians try to ban it.
My in-laws, both in their 70’s, are both addicted to Oxycodone prescribed by doctors. MIL has rheumatoid arthritis, incurable. FIL destroyed his knee in auto accident as a teenager and has chronic staff infections and chronic pain, incurable except by amputation and he is still mobile. They were prescribed Oxy at least 15 years ago before it was known to be seriously addictive. They are NOT taking it to get high, they are taking it to be able to live with their pain. FIL detoxed once, in his 60’s, under supervision of a doctor because of stomach pain related to taking Oxy for so long. He lasted a year before he was back on because nothing else touches his pain. Because Big Pharma hasnt bothered to develop any other pain meds and why should they have when they were making billions shopping Oxy to doctors and dentists who prescribed it freely. FIL manages to get by by doctor shopping because doctors keep prescribing it for both of them. They are human beings who became addicted trying to manage chronic, debilitating pain.
And I mentioned dentists because they are some of the biggest culprits in over prescribing opioids. When my son had his wisdom teeth out at 17, the oral surgeon gave him a SIXTY day supply of Oxy. His pain lasted 3 days at most. And this is how kids get hold of it and get addicted. I flushed the bottle when he was done with it because he has a younger brother and friends in the house.
Yes, UCBearcats, you are a fucking asshole.
Actually, you are a fucking asshole for not disposing of a medication properly. Way to pollute the water.
Sick burn, bro.
Yesterday the Australian Govt introduced legislation that prohibits the sale of any medication OTC that contains even the slightest trace of codeine. Apparently 100 people per annum overdose on the stuff. Whatever. If you want it, you now need to get a doc prescription. Whatever.
Y’know, I like to have a pack of Panadeine Extra hanging around. I might go through a packet a YEAR, when I have bunged my back, or need a bit of post-surgery relief from whatever ails me. Toothache, shitty headache, yeah, I like my Panadeine Extra.
But now I need to take time off work (unpaid) for a Doc appointment just to get a stupid fucken pill that I could buy at my leisure previously. All because a whole HUNDRED people in this country overdose every year…as if they’re not going to get their fix somewhere else now???
I agree with the OP.
But I don’t blame the addicts. I blame the stupid Nanny State Gummint.
Come on, that is a ridiculous assertion.
Let me see if I understand…
The complaint is about Loperamide moving to being sold in blister packs rather than loose? So, the way it’s already sold in many other countries? The way my mother consumed it for years, before her diarrhea got fixed?
Man, when it comes to healthcare the US really are unique. You make more of a fuss over the presentation of a medication than other countries make over which instances of breast implants should be covered by UHC.
My biggest gripe is with the illicit drugs out of the bunch, and I really do feel immense pity for those who get addicted to the legally prescribed stuff, and doctors should limit or augment it with non-addictive pain relievers or have it closely monitored. That is unfair and upsetting. Otherwise, Those who became addicted by doing Heroin, meth or crack and then resort to pills to supplement their addiction, Yeah. F-Them. Minor inconveniences aside, its that they resort to stealing and other criminal practices and wind up costing a ton of money clogging up the jails and hospital/health care, not to mention the support of criminal enterprises and gangs that solely rely on this shit for income. Disease transmission as well. As for inconvenience, its seeing the ragged toothless crackhead panhandlers beg and do weird shit and the junkies who seemingly fall asleep standing up in the middle of the sidewalk, that pisses me off. Get your shit together and get treatment. If you have enough intelligence to find your next fix, you have enough to find a free or cheap treatment center.
Finding the source of the problem will not work in this case (as it might with over-prescribing). The illicit drug ‘war’ cannot be won. Therefore, those who are using these [illicit] drugs are the actual problem and its costing everyone. If they can’t wrap their heads around how they are negatively influencing other peoples lives as a whole or they do it anyway, then I cannot feel sorry for them.
Chiropractors can write prescriptions in the US? Seriously?