Pain Killers

[miatachris]

Bravo, Qadgop. It’s so nice to see an MD who has even heard of P-450 much less conversant about it.

I bet that prison job has turned you into quite the expert on tox screens and metabolites. I hope you saw that thread over in MPSIMS asking you for another prison story.

miatachris, very impressed.

[pravnik]

*Originally posted by DVous Means *
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I am reliably informed by one of the foremost emergency specialists in Australia that paracetamol is most definitely dangerous when taken in large quantities.

Although there is an antidote available, he tells me that the damage to the liver is quite horrendous, and the effects are permanent even when dealt with early.

Panadol (the trade name for the most popular brand of paracetamol in Australia) is sold in supermarkets in packets of 24. I am told that taking all of these at once is sufficient to produce a long, slow, painful death. **

You’re right. I should’ve specified “in normal doses”.

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

*Originally posted by miatachris *
**Bravo, Qadgop. It’s so nice to see an MD who has even heard of P-450 much less conversant about it.

I bet that prison job has turned you into quite the expert on tox screens and metabolites. I hope you saw that thread over in MPSIMS asking you for another prison story.

miatachris, very impressed. **

thanks. I did study under Sol Snyder, the discoverer of the opiate receptor, back in med school. That and years of field research on opiates combine to make me at least a journeyman on the subject.

and thanks for the heads-up about MPSIMS

[USCDiver]

*Originally posted by miatachris *
**Bravo, Qadgop. It’s so nice to see an MD who has even heard of P-450 much less conversant about it.

I bet that prison job has turned you into quite the expert on tox screens and metabolites. I hope you saw that thread over in MPSIMS asking you for another prison story.

miatachris, very impressed. **

I don’t know about MD’s but us medical students get plenty of lecture time spent on the P450 system.

[scm1001]

In new zealand it was (is?) common for addicts to by lots of codeine medicine, extract the codeine and turn it into heroin. As the authorities got wise and started to track the chemicals needed such as pyridien, then it started to get less common.

[miatachris]

*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan *
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thanks. I did study under Sol Snyder, the discoverer of the opiate receptor, back in med school. That and years of field research on opiates combine to make me at least a journeyman on the subject.

and thanks for the heads-up about MPSIMS **

Between you and the med students - maybe my job’ll get easier!

miatachris, pleased and surprised