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0 pointslr4444lr8y ago0 comments

I think you're raising an interesting point, but I disagree with your example - what pain that is so bad its sufferer needs "to lay in bed in agony" can be relieved by ibuprofen, acetaminophen, or any other OTC pain reliever? The Great Binge[0] ended long ago - perhaps for the wrong reasons, but ended nonetheless, until recently when legal opioid prescriptions spiked.

This is about doctors putting their patients at risk in the process of treating them for routine problems which did not result in opioid addiction rates as recently as 25 years ago, and certainly were not prescribed with any other side benefit as far as I've heard.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Binge

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mnm18y ago· 2 in thread

Headaches can easily be that bad and relieved with ibuprofen. Otherwise yeah, it's lay in bed and try to sleep and hope they don't last into the next day.

abakker8y ago

Or, sometimes, they're not. My wife gets bad migraines. For the most part, nothing works.

She has not tried, and is not interested in trying opioids for them, though.

GordonS8y ago

She should try sumatriptan. Works amazingly well for me.

stephengillie8y ago

Tangental - having never heard of The Great Binge described before, it's interesting to note the time period begins just at the end of the Opium Wars. Almost as though it was just a shifting of focus.

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