Another video from the Institute of Human Anatomy, so we can understand the enemy coming across our border:
From the comments:
I wish you had talked about how FAST opioid dependence happens. I was sent home from spinal surgery (C2,3 & 4) with a script for 80 Oxycodone, 10ml, to be taken 4 times a day. At first I took 3 per day. Quickly I went down to 2. One night I felt pain free. I didn’t take the night pill. I woke up next morning with severe “flu.” Aching joints, cold chills & hot shaking. Running nose etc. My adult son told me, “You’re in withdrawal, ma.” Nah nah nah. I’d only been taking them 3 weeks & always less than the prescribed dose. No way could I be in withdrawal! I called my sister, an RN. She told me to take half a pill. I did. I called her back: “Flu is all gone.” She told me how to taper off comfortably. I did. NEVER would I have believed anyone could become so dependent so fast. I believe it now. I experienced it. I flushed about 40 pills down the toilet. That was so hard to do. I realized I was not just physically dependent; I loved them. Twenty years later I still think of them. Fondly.
I remember Rush became addicted after his back surgery. I shudder now, remembering how much of the oxy I took after my surgery. I was lucky.
Those videos of the zombies in the streets of San Francisco…those were all living. laughing people once. I’ve always said that we pump so much money into cancer…the Jerry Lewis telethons for muscular dystrophy…we should put as much of an emphasis into solving the addiction problem.
I guess if you are a foreign power trying to overthrow your nemesis, getting a large number of the population addicted to a debilitating drug is one way of doing it.
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