Addiction to painkillers

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What's this all about? I keep reading that various celebs have to undergo treatment for pain killer addiction, but I don't understand what there is to get hooked on. Do handfuls of Disprin make you feel good then?

C J (C J), Monday, 1 August 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

they're easy to get, and they allow celebs the "romance" of being addicted to something.

stockholm cindy (from norway) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Percocet, Oxycontin, Vicodin, etc., are usually the culprits - any opiates will cause physical dependence/addiction if they're taken for a long enough period of time

Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm addicted to advil. *swoon*

Kim (Kim), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

And it sounds so much more respectable than "junkie." It drove me crazy when there were all the reports about Rush Limbaugh, and the NRO crowd and right-wing bloggers were all like, "This is different than being a drug addict, they're just painkillers."

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/opioids-tennessee-narcan-training.html

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Shortly after his first-grade class let out for the day, Nash Kitchens sat with a dozen other young children at a library and played a murder mystery game that had a surprising plot twist.

The victim was a restaurant worker who had been found dead in a freezer. The killer, the children would discover, was heroin laced with fentanyl, an often fatal opioid.

Nash, who at 7 years old has a relative who has struggled with addiction, was wide-eyed as Jilian Reece, a drug prevention educator, talked about an ongoing opioid epidemic in their small rural community. She then demonstrated how to administer Narcan, an overdose reversal nasal spray.

j., Sunday, 23 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link


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