It is regrettable that your complacency, defensiveness and narrowed insight has contributed to your view that Tramadol is a "fucking weak shitty painkiller" and confused you as to what constitutes harm reduction and what constitutes adding to risk needlessly.
Tramadol is a strong drug to the opiate naive and is associated with a number of adverse events and deaths.
Contrary to your assertions, my eminently sensible reminder, that we on a forum cannot substantively determine whether or not a bottle of expired Tramadol are safe to take, particularly for a new poster, new to drugs, with an unknown medical history or age and with new, undiagnosed severe pain of sudden onset and that a dentist/doctor should be consulted, instead of self medicating, does not constitute "a lack of HR". Indeed, quite the opposite. Whilst you were busy creating excuses for OP about money, etc and putting words in the OP's mouth, despite no insight into his location, finances or reasons for bypassing doctors - you missed the key points I made, so I have spelled them out again.
Tramadol is not a drug to underestimate for someone whom is new to drugs and entirely opiate naive and whose background we know nothing of and whom is planning to take Tramadol without medical supervision. Your surmising over the expired element and safety or otherwise of the expired Tramadols given to the OP by his room-mate, is semantics, not harm reduction, since you fail, so categorically, to consider the bigger picture. Even basics, such as dose, frequency, etc, were ignored.
We can surmise on this site about the status of any number of expired pharmas, but in this particular instance, this is missing the salient points, that all new severe unremittting pain of sudden onsent warrants medical attention - in this instance, harm reduction means seeking to ascertain the following points:
-what dose is the OP planning to take, whilst self-medicating?
-how often/frequency of dosing, whilst self-medicating?
-has this pain happened before?
-what other meds is he on?
-what other known health problems does he have?
-Has he ever suffered a seizure?
-did this pain appear suddenly?
-is there pain elsewhere?
-Other symptoms?
-how long has he had this pain?
-Any signs of infection?
My further key points, which you missed in your angry reponse, was that firstly, no new, severe and persisting pain should go uninvestigated, nor substituting self-medication attempts, without a dentist or doctor at least examining the patient. There could be an INFECTION there, which simply throwing Tramadol at, will not help and will simply mask pain whilst it gets worse and causes potential severe issues. Doctor or dentist needs to assess matters overall and supply apppropriate and fresh pain medication with appropriate dosing advice and whatever other meds may be required, or indeed deal with the underlying problem should a procedure be required.
Secondly, we do not know what other medications the OP may be on, or what other health conditions, diagnosed or not, they might have. Tramadol interacts with a number of other medications. Again, this is why proper medical advice is crucial.
Thirdly, the roommate gave OP one bottle - he may well have access to plenty more or a regular script, it happens. What may result if his pain remains even after using a bottle of expired Tramadol? What then? Room mate gets him another bottle? Sourcing Tramadol is hardly difficult, you can buy them like candy. Medically, not only can some people can react badly to Tramadol, not just with the risks with tolerance, or seizure risks above certain doses, or all the other issues inherent with Tramadol, etc, but also severe nausea and sickness/redosing, etc.
Regrettably, your post relies on a number of erroneous assumptions, irrelevant conjecture, perceptual narrowing and defensive posturing, none of which are helpful, rational or focused on proper harm reduction. Disappointing conduct.
Having just checked, since you mentioned mod responses - the previous time the OP also posted this specific scenario, he was in fact then also urged by a moderator to see a dentist.
Plenty others tragically also thought Tramadol was an innocent painkiller, until it factored in their death.
. I was a grumpy pants yesterday and a combo of opioids and benzos got the best of me, just know that I'm usually a friendly person who has no qualms helping someone out if I can...