As far as I know it's illegal to not take your medication as directed. But most law officials have better things to do with their time than prosecute people for not taking their antibiotics or whatever. It's also illegal to divert, give away, or sell them.
Medication is supposed to be taken as it's prescribed, or it can lose efficacy or have unusual side effects. For instance if someone is prescribed Ritalin orally and they start snorting it, you can develop dependence and the medication will lose efficacy. Which defeats the whole purpose of medicating in the first place.
If you are prescribed pills to take, don't snort them or double your doses if they don't work as directed. Instead talk to your doctor about maybe getting a combination therapy (
NSAID or
COX-2 inhibitor + opioid + topical anesthetic (
lidocaine) + something like
orphenadrine or
diphenhydramine maybe?).
Opioids on their own are not as effective as opioids plus other drugs for painkilling. This has been proven with multiple studies. Opioids on their own require high doses that have a high incidence of side effects like constipation, nausea, digestive problems etc.
That League table says 60mg of codeine and 1000mg acetaminophen, or 400mg ibuprofen, is much better as a painkiller than 100mg tramadol, or 60mg codeine alone. The important number is the NNT (number of doses needed to treat). You only need ~2 doses to effectively treat pain with APAP+codeine or ibuprofen, versus 17 doses of codeine...
and these are studies done on thousands of people, not two random junkies.
Anyway since this is legal discussion, and legal discussion isn't allowed on Bluelight, I'm going to close this. Please PM me or another OD moderator if you want this thread re-opened.
It's really up to the cop, whether he has any hard evidence of you snorting drugs, or whether he wants to be an ass.
