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from the Antidiarrheal-overdose?-Oh,-crap! dept.
NPR is reporting on the latest drug scare, involving an over-the-counter antidiarrheal drug that is being used for its opioid-like effects by addicts:
Some people addicted to oxycodone and other opioids are now turning to widely available diarrhea medications to manage their withdrawal symptoms or get high. The results can be dangerous to the heart — and sometimes fatal — warn toxicologists in a study [open, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2016.03.047] recently published online in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
The researchers describe two case studies where people who were addicted to opioids tried to ease their withdrawal symptoms by taking many times the recommended dose of loperamide, a drug commonly used treat diarrhea. Both patients died.
"Because of its low cost, ease of accessibility and legal status, it's a drug that is very, very ripe for abuse," says lead author William Eggleston, a doctor of pharmacy and fellow in clinical toxicology at the Upstate New York Poison Center, which is affiliated with SUNY Upstate Medical University.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday May 04 2016, @04:47PM
Because people are flawed creatures and the nature of extreme addiction is one that, by its very nature, overrides our rational intelligence and self-control.
Sufficiently debilitating addictions don't just hurt the individual, but those who depend on them.
"Sorry little girl, your mother became addicted to opiates after a back injury required pain medication. Rather than treat her addiction and maybe return a degree of normalcy to your life, an internet commenter has pointed out the sage wisdom of making you suffer. This is very important because any other outcome might conflict with this stranger's ideology of 'personal responsibility'"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:50PM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday May 05 2016, @03:03AM
But you cannot save somebody from themselves, not and have any concept of rights or free will. I always remember the analogy given by William F Buckley which went something like this
"If I place a bottle on this table with a skull and crossbones and say 'this is poison, it will kill you but not before destroying your health, your life, your job, everything.' and you shove past me and down the bottle? Then explain to me why I should spend billions of money which can be used to help people that want help to build cages to keep you in from grabbing the bottle and give the government ever more power to try to limit the amount of bottles you can get your hands on?"
We have had 40+ years of education, everyone knows exactly what these drugs to your body and health...and yet they destroy themselves anyway. If we took the billions that we spent trying to lock these people up and instead spent it on people that can actually helped, how much better would our country be?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.