Despite it being a 2-year old article it is still relevant each and every month as nothing has changed:



Using census data, that equates to roughly ONE-HUNDRED and SIXTY MILLION people in the USA are on some sort of prescription drug per month.

Subtract the people who come down with flu (antibiotics) and those with serious/terminal diseases and it is a HELL of a lot of people popping pills. The drug companies have got to be making billions and have probably become the most important companies in America, eclipsing oil companies. That much money is always a breeding ground for corruption as well as manipulations. We probably have no clear idea of the consequences from all this use as studies are probably doctored/paid off/etc at this point. We already have heard of antibiotics becoming less useful towards strains that are becoming resistant. They'll just invent new strains to keep the money flowing.

Consider this:


Pop a pill for boredom and addiction to modern society luxuries.

Just walk into any poker room tomorrow and notice all the ipod wearing players who can't even engage in conversation anymore or play a game in a live environment without steady beats pounding in their ears. "Zone out" is the new cool. Zone out of school because you can just get your homework and essays copy/pasted from the Internet in 15 minutes. Zone out at work because everyone is entitled to making 30/hr so why work for $12, just do minimum. Zone out in relationships (family or couple) as someone is always on Facebook or a friend is just a quick text away. But when you feel you can't concentrate anymore, POP a fucking pill.

Next time you are at a party, just think.. about half those people are on some sort of meds...

I literally lost a year and a half of my life due to fucking painkillers. It all started with a broken tooth. Once you get addicted to opiates, it's not about the high (you build up a tolerance so you do even get the euphoric effect anymore) you just spend your whole fucking day worrying about getting your next fix so you don't withdraw. Withdrawing from opiates is the worst thing I've ever had to deal with my entire life, and I spent 22 months in prison; it doesn't compare to withdraws. Once you're addicted, that's all you can think about is not withdrawing, so it sucks the life out of you. Plus my girlfriend takes Opana and percocet due to a major back surgery she had six years ago. There's always that temptation around me. Opiates are that necessary evil that's apart of our society

I never bothered to reply to Druffs medical mary-j thread because the whole premise that a lot of ppl have cannabis cards without a "real" medical reason kinda falls in to moonlanding monday category. It's pretty much the same with prescription drugs.

As long as there has been prescription drugs there have been people abusing them/taking them for all the wrong reasons. Every decade the drugs of choice change but it's more or less the same shit.

Potential for abuse still means fuck all to people that actually need the shit to survive day to day. It's though prolly true that major pharmaceutical companies either do very little to lower abuse potential or even actively increase it.

ps. Heroin was a registered trademark owned by Bayer and it was marketed as less addictive and safer than morfine

I AM OLD SCHOOL. I SOLVE MY BAD DAYS WITH A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH OR WINE

NEVER TAKEN ANY PRESCRIPTIONS EXCEPT ANTIBIOTICS A FEW TIMES

I HAVE JUST SEEN TOO MANY FRIENDS GET ADDICTED TO THAT SHIT

OBV ALCOHOL RUINS LIVES DAILY, BUT IF YOU CAN CONTROL IT AND NOT LET IT CONTROL YOU, IT IS A FINE PRODUCT


"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Sir Winston Churchill

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Haven't had so much as a flu shot in a decade.
I never get sick.
When my throat gets sore, I sit in the sauna and I'm cured.
9/10 common ailments can be cured (not "treated") naturally.
The pharm companies are raping this nation but hey as long as a new episode of dancing with the stars is coming on who gives a fuck...

I have all of Mom's medicine. She passed last week. I have fentanyl patches, Vicocin's, Percocets and Methadone and two big bottles of Ambien. What to do with them? Selling them is not an option. I could always flush them but I was thinking someone that needs them would be a better option.

I will def take the ambien.

They are not narcotics yet I still think I could get in trouble for shipping them to you. If you were here I would hand them to you.

It's usually better to take fewer pills than your doctor offers. Try to determine what's really necessary, and just take those.

With that said, I always like having some vicodin around for those rare nasty headaches that Excedrin can't take care of. I only take it about twice a year, though.

I fucking hate narcotic pain medicine. I know I am in the minority on this but that shit fucks me up.

I've got some lovely issues with my low back at L5-S1. Twice in the last two years my back has totally fucking seized up, locked up, to the point where I find myself in absolute horrific agonizing pain, writing in the floor in agony. Literally my wife had to call 911 both times just to drag me off the floor.

Each time I was admitted for pain control. I was given muscle relaxers to ease the spasms (good). I was given dilutaid (SP?) for the pain, and was then sent home with oxy or percs. Each time it took literally two weeks or more for my head to clear from the hospital pain meds. Then I'd find myself eating the oxy's like M'M's for pain but also for shits and grins. I was able to quickly realize what I was doing and stop, both times.

Over the last year any time I have had any spasm or pain I immediately ice the shit out of my back and if I have pot, I'll smoke it for pain relief.

I have come to the conclusion that there is so much merit to marijuana for pain relief. I now would much rather smoke for pain than take something manufactured at Phizer.

This is 100% real talk. Opiate withdraw is fucking brutal. I did like a 40 mg a day for a year and when I finally quit I had a week of the worst hot/cold chills EVER, couldn't really do anything besides sit on a couch and wear 4 layers of clothes only to peel them off as soon as I got sweaty hot 15 minutes later, then put them back on when I was wearing because I would get freezing cold.

score! mom drugs

the hot & cold flashes are the fucking worst. you just can't ever get comfortable. exercise is the best remedy for withdraws, if you can get off the couch. swimming & running and a whole bunch of imodium.

She has to be weened of the fentanyl patches. I was on them for two weeks and came off of them cold turkey. It's a steady stream of morphine being pumped into your system . I had to be rushed to the ER because my blood pressure was so high I almost had a heart attack. The doctor gave me a lower does to ween down, even though he new I was abusing them and not using them for chronic pain. They are the most dangerous of all the prescribed opiates.

Uga's mom is prolly fine without weening in her state. As to what to do with the stash the Druff solution is prolly fine with percs and vics (use it for personal pain relief when needed). I'd flush the fentanyl patches and methadone.

Opiates for the most part are in the category of pharms that are great short term drugs but create a lot of problems when used for longer periods of time.

Yeah Mom's not hurting anymore. Love and miss ya!

Not sure why you're surprised that prescription medicine increases as the years go on. It makes perfect sense. As technology, treatment, and research improve, they find new forms of medicine to help treat the many ailment we can have. It's also the reason people don't die from dumb shit like they did years ago, and people don't have to suffer through other ailments and psychological problems that are easily treatable now. Along with more drugs being readily available, of course the amount of people abusing them is going to increase. It's a necessary evil. If people want to become junkies they're going to find a way somehow.

UGA- Sorry to hear about your mom, my condolences. You should flush those drugs. Anyone that "needs" them can get them through a doctor, just like anyone else.

I'm sorry man! I miss read your post, didn't she passed. Sorry for your loss!