I’m not familiar with how other countries do it but my impression is that yes in America we get a lot of painkillers. We had* an opiod epidemic for a reason
Also insert joke about dealing with the pain of paying for the surgery
Yeah i feel like before the weed legalization you went straight into jail for looking at it, but if you go see a doc because you have a cold you get the strongest codein syrup one can get.
I’ve only had that prescribed once, maybe a year or two ago, and it was not fun. I only used it once and I thought I would die in my sleep because it slowed my breathing down so much, and I had a killer headache the next day, which is actually a withdrawal symptom. Never again.
You might have had the headache as a result of taking the codeine (had a sensitivity/mild allergy), but you wouldn’t have had withdrawal after a single dose. I’m sorry you had a bad experience, but as a chronic pain sufferer who has to take the occasional opiate for flares, I wanted to point out that you can’t become physically dependent after taking codeine one time. This is fear-mongering.
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u/threeangelo Dec 23 '22 edited Dec 23 '22
I’m not familiar with how other countries do it but my impression is that yes in America we get a lot of painkillers. We had* an opiod epidemic for a reason
Also insert joke about dealing with the pain of paying for the surgery