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