In a conversation yesterday with a friend who is a nurse, (Reply #19)

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Sat Dec 30, 2017, 02:26 AM

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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33 replies	Author	Time	Post
Why hasnt the opioid epidemic hit other countries? [View all]	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Dec 2017	OP
They have hospitals, where addicts can get help.	shenmue	Dec 2017	#1
Years ago, if I remember correctly, it was the then East Germany that led	Sophia4	Dec 2017	#2
An awful lot of the homeless are opioid addicts	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Dec 2017	#5
Is it only the US medical system?	malaise	Dec 2017	#3
There is this	Bear Creek	Dec 2017	#20
Excellent point	malaise	Dec 2017	#23
I don't know about the population distribution elsewhere	loyalsister	Dec 2017	#4
I wonder to what degree doctor-shopping is tolerated in other countries.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#6
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
Just over an hour. Took longer than I thought it would.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#14
Trouble is once they are "cut off" then what?	hunter	Dec 2017	#17
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
This is a nightmare and what is wrong with society.	NCTraveler	Dec 2017	#28
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that I was contradicting myself.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#31
Oh boy, where do I start?	cannabis_flower	Dec 2017	#21
The first guy was an idiot.	Aristus	Dec 2017	#24
I think all of them except for Dr. Hume	cannabis_flower	Dec 2017	#32
If tumeric and ginger helped...	robbob	Dec 2017	#25
I might look into that.	cannabis_flower	Dec 2017	#33
It reached Canada	Sanity Claws	Dec 2017	#7
More people are going to die from opioids in Canada than car accidents.	applegrove	Dec 2017	#8
We are suffering from an Opioid epidemic because	TheDebbieDee	Dec 2017	#9
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
It has - Russia, in particular	oberliner	Dec 2017	#11
Because big pharm made big bucks	tavernier	Dec 2017	#13
It sure has in Calgary and Vancouver Canada	Sen. Walter Sobchak	Dec 2017	#15
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
In a conversation yesterday with a friend who is a nurse,	PoindexterOglethorpe	Dec 2017	#19
Xanax and Clonopin were the hardest things I've ever kicked	NightWatcher	Dec 2017	#26
I can see why it is.	roamer65	Dec 2017	#29
Most of those countries have opiates OTC	Nevernose	Dec 2017	#22

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