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Warpy

(111,106 posts)
11. I am not impressed by propaganda.
Sat Aug 27, 2016, 05:49 PM
Aug 2016

I don't care who publishes it. It doesn't even say "patients who were prescribed opiods" it says "patients with a history of abusing prescription painkillers."

"Prescription pain killers" can come from many sources including mail order pill mills and organized crime putting out lookalike pills. It doesn't mean the person has ever had a legitimate prescription. It's also long been known that upper class drug abusers will start out on legally or (more usually) illegally obtained prescription opiates, it's one way they deny to themselves that they're drug abusers.

You made it sound that people in the hospital and taking opiates for legitimate resons were at risk for becoming addicts. You are 100% wrong. However, when you have that major surgery of your own, feel free to try to tough it out on Tylenol. I dare you.

Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong.

Watch the video.

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