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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 04 2016, @04:27PM   Printer-friendly
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:02PM (#341545)

    > Now, just wait a second before you get all outraged, and holier than thou on me.

    Hey, you are the one who claims to be a christian.
    But holy shit man do you ever fail to walk the walk.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:12PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:12PM (#341550) Journal

    Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he can eat for the rest of his life.

    What do you do? Give a fish, or give lessons?

    The concept applies here, as well. I'd rather teach people that if they insist on suicidal acts, we aren't going to waste resources on them. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe - just maybe - God's plans don't coincide with your plans to rescue everyone? Hey, if God wants that addict to come home, I'm certainly not going to interfere.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:44PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:44PM (#341564) Journal

      Except your God is very likely, according to your beliefs, to send this guy off to endless torture in flames, especially if he happens not to be a Christian.

      Runaway, for someone who claims to be about personal liberty and self-determination, you have an incredibly fascist set of religious beliefs. I've never been able to understand how a supposed paleocon and/or libertarian reconciles their political beliefs with what amounts to a religious form of fascism. Yahweh's Heaven would be a North-Korean-style nightmare where Kim Jong Un really COULD read your thoughts, to say nothing of his Hell, which is essentially an infinite concentration camp for his political prisoners.

      I guess fascism is fine when it's the right dictator in charge, eh? ;)

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:55PM (#341577)

      > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he can eat for the rest of his life.

      Did you just equate callous disregard for someone in need with "teaching?"
      It is fitting that you couldn't find a proverb in the bible to rationalize being so unchristian.

      > maybe God's plans don't coincide with your plans to rescue everyone?

      What a load of self-justifying bullshit. As if you can presume to know God's will.
      You sound exactly like a fundie hindu praising the caste system - they wouldn't be made to suffer if it weren't karmic justice.

      You really haven't learned one damn thing in church. The entire bible is just the same lesson repeated over and over with different words - be good to one another. Pretending that god wants someone to suffer so you can ignore their suffering is blasphemy.

      Start with these:

      Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

      Psalm 82:4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

      1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

      1 John 3:17-18 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

      1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

      Romans 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 05 2016, @12:29AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 05 2016, @12:29AM (#341849) Journal

        " As if you can presume to know God's will."

        Yeah, well, I have that same problem with all the self-proclaimed men of God running about, attempting to legislate morality. Who was it that imposed the prohibitions on us? Yeah, the so-called "Moral Majority". Instead of allowing some dopehead to find his own highway to hell, the dopehead has to be imprisoned for decades.

        There is no shortage of people who presume to know God's will - and you sound like yet another.

        "Pretending that god wants someone to suffer so you can ignore their suffering is blasphemy."

        That's cute. Typical maternal attitude. I'm a father though, and I'm perfectly aware that suffering can make a person into a BETTER person. Mothers in general abhor any kind of suffering, while good fathers know that a little pain, sweat, and discomfort tend to build character. Who am I, who are you, to deny someone's self-imposed suffering?

        Might I remind you that God imposes LIFE on all of us? Life is but a temporary testing ground, after all. What you see is not what God judges, after all. If you believe in God, anyway.

            But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Job 23:10

        "When He has tried me". What does that mean? "Tried me". Think about it.

        Do you presume to interfere in other people being "tried"?

        Theology, philosophy, and ethics are deeper subjects than most people have ever even tried to fathom. Maybe life isn't so simple as you thought?

  • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:45PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:45PM (#341566)

    Hey, you are the one who claims to be a christian.
    But holy shit man do you ever fail to walk the walk.

    You don't have to know many Christians to know that this is a pretty common characteristic.