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In reply to the discussion: Why hasnt the opioid epidemic hit other countries? [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,839 posts)19. In a conversation yesterday with a friend who is a nurse,
I learned that Xanax is very addictive, lots of people have been taking it for 20 years or more, and it seems implicated in Alzheimer's. Which doesn't really address the OP, but I found quite instructive.
The other friend (three of us at lunch yesterday) detailed her issues with her knee replacement and subsequent need to deal with the pain. I will say that of all the many people I've know who've had a knee replacement she seems to be the only one who hasn't bounced back quickly. She also kept on naming drugs that I'd never heard of, which tells me how totally out of touch with the drug industry I must be.
I mean, if it's not Tylenol or aspirin or acetaminophen, I haven't a clue.
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i hate to break it to you, but you're probably hurting more people than you're helping. you've alrea
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#12
You are absolutely right but I am not sure that is within Aristus ability to solve
stevenleser
Dec 2017
#27
You're right about that. For cortisone shots and other comprehensive musculoskeletal
Aristus
Dec 2017
#30
who cares? i'm sick of hearing about this non-crisis. now let me go back to my suffering, because i
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#10
Russia seems to have a bigger drug problem in general than we do. Canada is going to be hit hard by
stevenleser
Dec 2017
#16
Because they have actual safety nets in the form of rational health care systems.
alarimer
Dec 2017
#18