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Anyone else notice more TV ads for anti-constipation meds since the opioid epidemic?

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FunctionlJnkieGal

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I mean, if you're an opiophile like me, odds are you're no stranger to being backed up for several days or longer. It just seems I can't turn on the TV without seeing a commercial for constipation relief meds. Some are even geared specifically for OIC (opiate-induced constipation). Coincidence? Or has there always been a bunch of commercials about constipation relief and I just never noticed until now?
 
Don't you know it's a pharmaceutical conspiracy, prescribe a shit ton of opiates, then when everyone is constipated, start selling tons of laxatives, pure profit. Lmao, I'm kidding but only kinda, wouldn't put anything past big pharma anymore.
 
Nah, it's just how drug development goes for what they call blockbuster "lifestyle" drugs: a breakthrough target is found, the drug is a hit, and then four other companies make their own version.

It was the same way with, eg., Viagra. People knew about phosphodiesterase V inhibition, but never thought a drug for getting boners would make billions of dollars. Almost instantly you got Cialis and Levitra.

The same is true for SSRIs, loop diuretics, statins, every money-maker will produce competition (that does basically the same thing). I'm sure the regulatory issues are much less of a problem once the first drug in a class proves safe and effective, allowing the competitors a more rapid entry into the market.

Purely as anecdote, it seems like ads for some drugs increase dramatically right before the patent expires. So without looking it up, I'm going to predict that Lyrica will go generic in a few months.

Having been deep inside, I can assure you that pharma companies are just as, but only as, evil as other industries*. They don't play well enough together for huge conspiracies.


*OK, Roche truly is Evil, capital E.
 
Lol, how evil are other industries is the question then, I know I was a mechanic we charged 100 dollars an hour, 1 hour minimum for shit 30 dollars in parts and my 11 dollar an hour salary, with for 10 minutes of work.
 
bptubbs said:
Lol, how evil are other industries is the question then, I know I was a mechanic we charged 100 dollars an hour, 1 hour minimum for shit 30 dollars in parts and my 11 dollar an hour salary, with for 10 minutes of work.
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Well its a money making thing :)

I worked in a pharmacy when I had just finished school and I had gotten quite a bad cold and my boss told me to go sneeze all over the fresh vegetables in the store next door so everyone could come in and buy otc cold medicine
 
Lol that's pretty evil, my boss used to quote customers like 2 hours and we'd be done in 25 to 30 mins and he'd charge them for 2 hours and the inflated parts price. Most mechanics will rip you off blind, not to mention i was high daily at work, just food for thought.
 
shit 30 dollars in parts and my 11 dollar an hour salary, with for 10 minutes of work.
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Don't sell yourself short, tubbs. An old friend's dad, who worked all his life in that broader, internal combustion engine maintenance and accessories area, answered my price complaints with, "You're paying for expertise."

And he's right (often, anyway)--if I could've done it myself, I would have.

In that sense it's no different than lawyers' and doctors' billing rates. Well, except your bosses kept most of it.
 
Very much so, my point is a lot of large shops rip people off
 
Bptubbs, I think you're right. My fiance is a mechanic too by the way, yet I'm not sure the company he works for charges that much for labor, (parts vary in price, of course). He really prefers working for himself, so at least he has a shop now to do side-work. Yeah, mechanics are notorious for fucking people over financially, but I'd like to think he's one of the few fair and reasonable ones. I couldn't help but notice your location is "looks like hell with more cornfields". You wouldn't happen to be from Indiana, would you? That's where my man is from originally. He says he hated it there. Haha.
 
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Lol very close, just outside st Louis actually. My mom's from Indiana though.

And yes there are good mechanics out there, usually smaller shops and the independent guys. I don't do it anymore because i disagree with a lot of the practices, and making too much money ends in me doped out.
 
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He just drinks beer and smokes weed now. He takes a xanny every now and then when he's stressed and was briefly addicted to cocaine but overcame it when it caused him to lose a shitload of money and a good job working for a John Deere Co. I never hold his drinking against him or make him feel guilty about it, but for whatever reason he can't stand it when I'm pinned out. He also thinks I can just up and quit morphine at a drop of a hat with no problems just because it was a cake-walk for him to quit coke. Oh well. I love him like he loves his '69 Galaxie convertible and I promised him I'd quit one of these days. :\
 
Morphine is a hard one, i used to Iv coke and morphine, coke I just dropped and haven't touched in 3 years, took me an extra 4 months to quit morphine. I've also had a few mini relapses on morphine, and still have cravings often, so it's 2 different worlds.
 
Right. I wish he understood that. Opiates are an entirely different demon than cocaine. That sh*t will sink its fangs into you and won't let go no matter how bad you want to quit. :(
 
It is very hard, if I was still on my own, instead of living with some people I would've relapsed on opiates by now, its been a struggle, thats why I'll work just enough to pay bills and feed myself, anything else is dangerous.
 
bptubbs said:
And yes there are good mechanics out there, usually smaller shops and the independent guys. I don't do it anymore because i disagree with a lot of the practices, and making too much money ends in me doped out.
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Yeah, that's definitely true. I couldn't believe the difference in price for maintenance or for replacing small parts that had to be replaced every so often due to wear. (also when some of those parts were still in good condition, the small garages would be honest about it and so (obviously) not charge anything extra and just put 'checked part X's condition: OK' on the list of what they had worked on and what they had checked, the latter of which just to inform the client that they would have been replaced if necessary, so you wouldn't think that they didn't even check it while it might be in need of replacing.

When I went in for maintenance with a bigger company a few times, no matter how often I'd get it looked at, it'd always
A. Take them a LOT more man hours for the same checkup, plus they charged a great deal more for every man hour.
B. EVERY time you went in for maintenance, no matter how short the interval inbetween had been, they would charge you for "replacing" those items that need replacement because of wear every so often, both for the parts and of course also for the (even more!) man hours. When half the time they'd just check, and if they'd see these parts were still good leave them in just like the other, smaller and usually independent garages did. But unlike them they had no qualms with adding the price for those new parts and the (inflated) price for the alleged time it took to replace them to the bill. My step-dad once marked once of those parts that require regular replacement (idk the name in English) before bringing it in for maintenance.

Checked it when he saw the bill and said 'these weren't changed'. And they even tried to dispute his word by saying that 'they'd always replace said parts, as a matter of general safety, even if they looked brand new'.

Well he got that part paid back after telling them and showing them how and where he'd marked them, meanwhile causing a big scene and telling every other (potential) customer in there that they ripped people off there. Lol.

Sknxr then we've beeb going g to a small garage owner down our street and are much happier with their service as a whole; regarding the price for at least the same quality of work, if not better. Also a big difference in customer service; these people are much more friendly and less uptight. And most important of all; they're honest about what work needed doing, what they had to replace as well as about the time it took them to do it.

On topic: here in Belgium, no. Not at all. The same amount of commercials about anti constipation drugs as always are on TV as there always have been (not many but you sometimes see one here or there).

And commercials about anti constipation drugs specifically for opiate induced constipation are something I've never seen. Can anyone name a few of those (by the name of the active ingredient preferably). It'd be nice if I knew of one or more that are made specifically to combat this type of constipation. They would definitely be useful to keep around.
 
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Yeah, that's definitely true. I couldn't believe the difference in price for maintenance or for replacing small parts that had to be replaced every so often due to wear. (also when some of those parts were still in good condition, the small garages would be honest about it and so (obviously) not charge anything extra and just put 'checked part X's condition: OK' on the list of what they had worked on and what they had checked, the latter of which just to inform the client that they would have been replaced if necessary, so you wouldn't think that they didn't even check it while it might be in need of replacing.

When I went in for maintenance with a bigger company a few times, no matter how often I'd get it looked at, it'd always
A. Take them a LOT more man hours for the same checkup, plus they charged a great deal more for every man hour.
B. EVERY time you went in for maintenance, no matter how short the interval inbetween had been, they would charge you for "replacing" those items that need replacement because of wear every so often, both for the parts and of course also for the (even more!) man hours. When half the time they'd just check, and if they'd see these parts were still good leave them in just like the other, smaller and usually independent garages did. But unlike them they had no qualms with adding the price for those new parts and the (inflated) price for the alleged time it took to replace them to the bill. My step-dad once marked once of those parts that require regular replacement (idk the name in English) before bringing it in for maintenance.

Checked it when he saw the bill and said 'these weren't changed'. And they even tried to dispute his word by saying that 'they'd always replace said parts, as a matter of general safety, even if they looked brand new'.

Well he got that part paid back after telling them and showing them how and where he'd marked them, meanwhile causing a big scene and telling every other (potential) customer in there that they ripped people off there. Lol.

Sknxr then we've beeb going g to a small garage owner down our street and are much happier with their service as a whole; regarding the price for at least the same quality of work, if not better. Also a big difference in customer service; these people are much more friendly and less uptight. And most important of all; they're honest about what work needed doing, what they had to replace as well as about the time it took them to do it.

On topic: here in Belgium, no. Not at all. The same amount of commercials about anti constipation drugs as always are on TV as there always have been (not many but you sometimes see one here or there).

And commercials about anti constipation drugs specifically for opiate induced constipation are something I've never seen. Can anyone name a few of those (by the name of the active ingredient preferably). It'd be nice if I knew of one or more that are made specifically to combat this type of constipation. They would definitely be useful to keep around.
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I am a female however due to money constraints the hubby had to fix our car himself and in turn has taught me too. We have done the starter motor, bearings, shocks, break pads and discs, oil sump, tappet head gasket etc.

Two months back my oil pump went and we were unable to do it ourselves as we had to go through the engine, anyway someone gave me a mechanics details and he towed my car for nothing, worked on it until 10pm that night and only charged me 3 hours labour and cost for the part as I had sourced it myself and replaced my cam belt for nothing. I was a very happy lady!

With regards to the constipation ads the only one I have ever seen advertised is Dulcolax (I am in South Africa)

On a funny note we have a product called brooklax which means (relaxed pants) in Afrikaans

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Lol in Dutch it pretty much means the same thing, as the two languages are quite similar. :D

Also same @ dulcolax, it's the only one basically I ever see ads for. Though it's not an 'opiate-specific' laxative. I've actually never tried it, only the 'dulcosoft' stool softeners which weren't very helpful when I was pretty opi-constipated.
 
Bptubbs, that's good though. Do what you gotta do to stay clean if you're happier sober. Pill2Chill, yeah we get the Dulcolax commercials here in the US too. I can't go a day without seeing a Dulcolax commercial if I turn on the TV. Haha. As for the ads for opiate-induced constipation meds, I see this one all the time: https://youtu.be/0-flXl8CkY0
 
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