can someone explain how the opiod crisis happend?
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Many years ago I had a sore throat. Turned out to be strep throat, and I also had Mono so i wasn’t really recovering. After a 2 day stay in the hospital they gave me a prescription to continue antibiotics, and a prescription for pain killers.
They gave me 500ml (about 17oz or 2 cups) of liquid codeine. I got, so addicted to that stuff… When I ran out of it, it was hell.
Basically pain killers were handed out like they were nothing even though they created addiction. Lucky me, I discovered that you could goto a pharmacy and get pills with it so the addiction continued. Not in a major way, it didn’t interfere with my life but if I had a headache, take a pill. Joint pain? that’s a pill. Hung over? pill for that! until one day they made it so that you can’t buy them anymore. Haven’t had one in about 3 years now. Funny how I don’t feel pain as much anymore, it’s like I created the pain to justify taking something for it.
For other people though, they were given pain killers in the form of opioids. They got addicted, and started taking stronger and stronger doses. Where I live now, it’s so bad that if someone is dying, and they are given Naloxone to save their life. they wake up sober, and get angry about it because they aren’t stoned anymore.
then they just take more, and the cycle keeps going.
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