There's an even broader class of iatrogenic illness (induced unintentionally by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures) that we like to ignore but that responsible microbiologists have been trumpeting caution about for around 60 years with lots of deafness by for-profit hospitals and that's HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS like MRSA. In other words, as a physician, prescribing admission to a hospital where antibiotics were/are over-prescribed falls under the rubric of a prescribed therapy causing illness, often death. In 1985/86, I showed my freshman university biology students a video by an Australian microbiologist who described how the excessive use of antibiotics led to patients breathing out antibiotic dust which could be found on surfaces like windowsills and which selected for survival of the hardiest resistant bacteria (MRSA) making the hospital a hellhole of a place to go to die from bacterial sepsis un-treatable by any of the standard antibiotics of the era, except vancomycin, a drug with extreme kidney toxicity. Took another 15-20 years before the alarm reached the ears of hospital greedocracy, and the problem has still not been entirely dealt with to this day. Physicians still grotesquely over-prescribe antibiotics in hospital settings
During the 20 years of US occupation of Afghanistan Iran was awash in cheap opium. I tried to get 4 day laborers for a job, 2 were addicts - and I tried hard to find clean ones. The Taliban took over and opium vanished.
I am one of those who took a low dose of Norco RESPONSIBLY. I am in constant pain due to having lived a very physical life. When it came down to having to pee in a cup to prove that I was taking it and not selling it, I quit, plus I believe it looked bad for my doctor prescribing it to me.
So now I take 4000 mg of acetaminophen daily, which will eventually damage my liver. I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Hey gypsy. I get it. I spent years on methadone for severe chronic occipital/ left shoulder pain/spasms secondary to a stroke (central pain or "Thalamic Syndrome"). Hated the GI side effects (methadone better than oxycodone, a longer story), but it allowed me to go back to work and function cognitively as a writer. But after my state legalized medical cannabis and I retired, I started using it to control my pain/spasms and am still doing so. I function quite well as a writer, editor and musician/composer (one-handed). The irony is that I couldn't ditch the opioids until I retired because my employer was fine with them but cannabis was a no no.
I'd bet you must've tried, but it'd be better if you could cut the acetaminophen dose and substitute an NSAID like naproxen, unless they either don't work for you or destroy your stomach -- everyone's physiology reacts differently to these babies. As someone in chronic pain, I hate to hear that someone else has to deal with it too. Blessings.
Actually, State protected producers like Australia have a solid grip on pharmaceutical opiate supply. Tasmania is a major producer I recall. They firmly opposed Afghanistan's attempt to cut in on their monopoly on supplying big-pharma in the 2000's after the invasion - Afghan opium product is primarily sent illegally to countries like Russia and those 'adversaries' that the MIC seeks to socially undermine. (Trying to recall the name of the well-known neocon who boasted and celebrated the fact that so much Afghan heroin was being sent to Russia, but it eludes me at the moment)
Opioid crisis
Overprescription of statins.
That drug that killed the osteoclasts.
There's an even broader class of iatrogenic illness (induced unintentionally by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures) that we like to ignore but that responsible microbiologists have been trumpeting caution about for around 60 years with lots of deafness by for-profit hospitals and that's HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS like MRSA. In other words, as a physician, prescribing admission to a hospital where antibiotics were/are over-prescribed falls under the rubric of a prescribed therapy causing illness, often death. In 1985/86, I showed my freshman university biology students a video by an Australian microbiologist who described how the excessive use of antibiotics led to patients breathing out antibiotic dust which could be found on surfaces like windowsills and which selected for survival of the hardiest resistant bacteria (MRSA) making the hospital a hellhole of a place to go to die from bacterial sepsis un-treatable by any of the standard antibiotics of the era, except vancomycin, a drug with extreme kidney toxicity. Took another 15-20 years before the alarm reached the ears of hospital greedocracy, and the problem has still not been entirely dealt with to this day. Physicians still grotesquely over-prescribe antibiotics in hospital settings
Yeah, drugs are a HUGE problem in America… the whole continent, really
Opioid crisis authorized by the FDA and supplied by the CIA that brought the ingredients in from Afghanistan. And given to you by your doctor.
I want to know where the fine money is going because I haven’t received a penny from the settlements. Sweet gig.
During the 20 years of US occupation of Afghanistan Iran was awash in cheap opium. I tried to get 4 day laborers for a job, 2 were addicts - and I tried hard to find clean ones. The Taliban took over and opium vanished.
Hi Sam
I am one of those who took a low dose of Norco RESPONSIBLY. I am in constant pain due to having lived a very physical life. When it came down to having to pee in a cup to prove that I was taking it and not selling it, I quit, plus I believe it looked bad for my doctor prescribing it to me.
So now I take 4000 mg of acetaminophen daily, which will eventually damage my liver. I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Hey gypsy. I get it. I spent years on methadone for severe chronic occipital/ left shoulder pain/spasms secondary to a stroke (central pain or "Thalamic Syndrome"). Hated the GI side effects (methadone better than oxycodone, a longer story), but it allowed me to go back to work and function cognitively as a writer. But after my state legalized medical cannabis and I retired, I started using it to control my pain/spasms and am still doing so. I function quite well as a writer, editor and musician/composer (one-handed). The irony is that I couldn't ditch the opioids until I retired because my employer was fine with them but cannabis was a no no.
I'd bet you must've tried, but it'd be better if you could cut the acetaminophen dose and substitute an NSAID like naproxen, unless they either don't work for you or destroy your stomach -- everyone's physiology reacts differently to these babies. As someone in chronic pain, I hate to hear that someone else has to deal with it too. Blessings.
Actually, State protected producers like Australia have a solid grip on pharmaceutical opiate supply. Tasmania is a major producer I recall. They firmly opposed Afghanistan's attempt to cut in on their monopoly on supplying big-pharma in the 2000's after the invasion - Afghan opium product is primarily sent illegally to countries like Russia and those 'adversaries' that the MIC seeks to socially undermine. (Trying to recall the name of the well-known neocon who boasted and celebrated the fact that so much Afghan heroin was being sent to Russia, but it eludes me at the moment)
And which particularly evil osteoporosis drug was that - the one that killed the osteoclasts?
The COVID injections have killed and maimed millions throughout the world.