To the OP. That was just for the fake opioid epidemic. Pay it no heed.
About Tramadol: Tramadol is prescribed for dogs (not a disease called dogs, but actual dogs with post-op and other pain). It worked incredibly well for my dog, who used to climb trees, but had an adverse event when I wasn't there. I think a neurotic dog sitter freaked out and tried to get him down. Anyway, if he moved his head wrong he'd cry out in pain, so the vet prescribed Tramadol, which got him through it, Then when my neighbor had a neck injury, I foolishly gave the leftover to him. He'd been dorked around by a chiropractor for weeks and gotten nowhere. He said they made him very pleasantly groggy and tired, but maybe too much so. They also worked on the pain.
Now, for Part 3. I had a bad time coming off transdermal Ritalin and Effexor, both prescribed, each by a crazy doctor, and had read on
[wikipedia] that Tramadol could ease withdrawal. Someone had kindly added "but it could make it worse." Someone even kinder deleted it since them, but others had copied and pasted into blogs where it lived on. I was nervous, somewhat fanciful, paranoid and very ineffective at everything before I took a Tramadol, but after I took it, I was halfway to Scott-Stapp-like stages of the bad crazies within an hour, and also physically wobbly.
I informed my hapless handyman, who had sort of become my caregiver by then, that I HAD to go to Best Buy (and would he please drive) because I HAD to get my computer fixed under warranty, because I HAD to make an American-English-accented audio recording for a fervent anti-NATO Ukrainian I'd selected on Facebook as the most CIA-attracting person I could friend for no reason. But first I had to angrily ask a neighbor I'd never met whether he was cutting branches off my oak tree, which he angrily denied, and then angrily asked me why I had accused him, which I denied, angrily, because I had only asked.
Even though I'd had the ASUS 31 days and the hardware warranty was for 30, and didn't cover cracked screens anyway, and especially not when you broke it yourself by closing it over a rock hard e-cig, and you had mistakenly bought GeekSquad when you bought the ASUS, because [and this part is true]you weren't offered a real extended warranty, and thought GeekSquad covered hardware, whereas it covers software, which you don't need help with.
I DEMANDED that BestBuy fix it then and there, which went about as far as the unpleasant conversation with my neighbor. So I HAD to buy a open-box Mac, but before that obligatory purchase, my left leg kind of buckled and I felt as though I was going to collapse, and I did, after limp-staggering out of the store like an idiot with a very heavy, non-working ASUS ROG making it that much harder to walk.
The next day I maintained composure long enough to buy an iPad at Target, but I was so frizzled that I couldn't read in an nice, even narrators voice as I had done on the first few assignments.
For the next few days I was not right in the head, or physically. I stayed home and drank Mexican chocolate with crushed red peppers and cinnamon, and swilled hemp oil.
