An opioid, a muscle relaxant with barbiturate effect and a benzodiazepine. That's a good recipe for respiratory arrest right there.The "Holy Trinity" is Oxycodone, Soma & Xanax. Apparently, it is a heroin-esque high.
How's about, one might not can be TOTALLY pain free. How about other forms of treatment? I "lived" with debilitating headaches for years because I DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE MEDS. That's why I was trying the chiro. Next on the list if that hadn't helped was acupuncture. Sometimes you might have to live with pain. Buncha wuss' in this country.Opioids kill people for sure. The problem is that there is no better alternative for many people. I live in a state where I can go out and buy the "dankest" weed available, but opioids are somehow taboo. I wish medicine would come out with an effective and safe alternative, but, so far, has not. Are people supposed to live with pharmaceutically manageable pain, because some junkie can't control himself?
and i thought the demon weed was supposed to be the gateway drugThe 60 minutes piece didn't go into it but if you watch the episodes of Drugs Inc on Nat Geo that cover opioids and heroin they talk to plenty of people who came into their Heroin problems through legal doctor ordered scripts. It wasn't that long ago that the drug companies had their hottie sales reps rubbing up against every doctor they could claiming that these were a "new generation of safer, less addictive pain management tools" and getting Docs to hand them out like candy. I have a bottle somewhere from a dental crown I needed a few years back (never took them as I hate them too) sitting in a drawer. I didn't need them for that. There are many stories out there of people getting hooked and then going to pain management clinics to keep supplied and then when the Government finally decided to crack down they simply cut everyone off. So what does an addict do but find a way. A lot of these folks found their way to back alley pill sellers or needles full of something. Often lately that something is a Chinese Fentanyl derivative that killing people left and right. All in, all opioids are killing around 150 people a day in the US. The only place where the trend is reversing, to a degree is legal weed states. Colorado came out this week showing a 6% drop in opioid deaths since legalization.