eli5 why can you not just go into a medically-induced coma to avoid the symptoms of withdrawal?
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I’ve done some time in ICU. Firstly, the cost, unless you’re paying privately. ICU beds can run 4-5000 dollars a day. Secondly, being sedated into unconscious is not risk-free. The list of things that have been taken care of run all the way down to having your teeth brushed by a nurse, to avoid dental infections. Which has to be done without dislodging the breathing tube. This is probably the least banal risk. They go up from there.
Basically, everything in life is risk/reward, right? Well the reward of avoiding the physical and psychological discomfort of withdrawal doesn’t balanced against the risk and cost of a fortnight of ICU.
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