countryboy (08-16-2018), Phantasmal (08-16-2018)
countryboy (08-16-2018), Phantasmal (08-16-2018)
countryboy (08-16-2018)
Thanks.
What do you mean by this? "The precursor for pain pill addiction IS drug abuse"? The precursor for pain pill addiction is being prescribed an addictive yet effective substance because the patient has pain. But why do some easily get hooked, and others are able to take the prescribed dosage and walk away? I suspect the answers lie in individual neurochemistry. I also think that there are psychological components to all addictions. Something is missing in the patient's life that is being filled by the oblivion the drug of choice brings. What is it? A sense of purpose? Lack of life goals?
My college general psych professor is also a PhD licensed therapist who specializes in treating addictions. She said that she has the best success with helping the patient switch a harmful addiction to a healthy (or at least non-harmful) one. Exercise is a big one. Also hobbies like collecting, creating, and sports, and so on that involve meeting with other ppl interested in the same hobby (for the social aspect). She believes that there truly is an "addictive personality" and uses that to help ppl overcome their substance abuse.
Those are excellent therapies. All I know is the typical AA or NA stuff - but they say the same thing that people use because they have a "hole" in their emotions they fill up with booze/drugs.
So you cant fully recover until you do a personal "inventory" - stay clean,and become more engaged with life.
I was looking the the war on opioids. last year there were 70k deaths, but 40k involved fentanyl.
You don't get fentanyl from pain pills -it comes from cheap heroin
"drug abuse as the precursor" means exposure to pain pills becomes much moer addictive in potential by prior drug abuse
Here's a decent and up-to-date article on fentanyl.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/...ou-should-know
In the nursing setting, we always wore gloves to apply and remove fentanyl patches, which were then disposed of and witnessed the same way we disposed of and witnessed (and signed off on) any other controlled substance. Unfortunately in the home setting this doesn't happen; addicts often get their start by taking the used patches out of the trash and applying them. It's pretty easy to manufacture fentanyl as well.
Side tale: A few years ago we went on a heroin awareness walk to honor the memory of our friends' son who died from an OD. It terminated at the fire house where his father was a captain. While waiting for my husband to go get the car (because it was hot and I am lazy), I got to talking to some of the firemen about the heroin issue. They were saying how discouraging it was to get a call for an OD, rush to the scene and administer Narcan and save the person, only to get called to the same scene hours later -- for the exact same person. This was a typical middle-class predominantly white suburban area. I've got no doubt that this exact same scenario doesn't play out every single day in every single state and town around America.
MAGA MAN (08-16-2018)
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