Amricans jump to the final conclusion ever. If thye have chronic back pain, then you could treat her with pnaadeine Forte. If Jinnie esas dyingfg
Go and see a doctor: COmplai about back aopain, get OxyXionrin, Thatsbhwhhat these scum do every single day.
Some places are big consumer of benzos. Exhibit A. lol.
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Ahem. Well, in my casual observations Americans (and I am one) are far more likely to see doctors for things other people would just ignore and let pass on its own if they have employer insurance and its only $10-$15 for a doctor visit. Not necessarily a bad thing. My mother would sometimes get three different Hydrocodone scripts in the same week due to seeing a doctor, and specialists separately for 3 different ailments. I was given 40 Percocet pre-op for gallbladder infection pending removal and 60 after the operation -- a time-frame of one week by the same prescribing doctor LOL. Didn't even ask for the 2nd set when he was writing the script I thought it was going to be for an antibiotic.
One theory I have is since our diets are generally much lower in quality than those in other first world countries, we have a lot more problems with things like gout, morbid obesity resulting in various chronic pain ailments when older, dental problems from all the soda resulting in necessary analgesics after invasive dental procedures, etc.
The lack of welfare as compared to Europe and Canada results in higher levels of people using opioids for mental augmentation for boredom, despair, etc from homelessness, unemployment, and other issues in inner cities.
Personally, I would love it if things were simple again in terms of opioids and Laudanum could be bought from the corner "Druggist" "Apothecary" "Chemist" for cheaper than beer or ordered from a SEARS catalog. lol. Ahh the age of innocence when the government stayed out of people's bodies in terms of medication and the news media didn't demonize inanimate mounds of powder as evil constructs that exist solely to hurt our children and promote communism or [insert scapegoat of the decade]. Though I do recognize that the development of fully synthetic opioids that were partially motivated by the squelching of opium production (and subsequent shortages during WW2) were necessary for all those whom have allergies to opiates and semi-synthetics. The famed silk road of Asia was also crippled by warfare during WW2 intentionally or unintentionally from Japanese occupation, totalitarian efforts, etc. Plus ultrapotent opioids like Fentanyl are ideal for certain cases with sky high tolerances (I read a case where a burn victim was up to 3mg IV fentanyl every few hours) and large mammals. So I recognize the value of fully synthetics being available partially as a result of the dark ages born with the Harrison Tax Act in the U.S. and other abominations that followed in this "only politicians are capable of determining whats good for you" era after the first quarter of the 20th century. This drug prohibition jizzfest culminating with the U.N. treaty restricting opium and cocaine use in the 1940s which was lobbied in favor of by every major religious denomination.
Crime from drug use is because of artificial inflation of the drug's price from government policies. It isn't expensive at all to maintain an addict for life instead of stigmatizing them and jailing them and forcing unwanted rehab, urinalysis, etc -- the ultimate and expensive exercise in futility also known as insanity in the neverending battle to control how common people experience pleasure in the name of morality.
In Appalachia regions, opioids for mental augmentation / recreational use (or if you insist... the prohibitionist term "abuse") spiked because of the decline in coal mining resulting in broken cities and tons of unemployed coal miners with a combo of chronic pain and broken emotional states.
The demand will always be high so long as humans by nature like to go after that which is forbidden, and also like to alter their consciousness. On a primal level we are all drug seeking persons IMO. It will always be an endless battle for the ruling elite to restrict pleasure, and its underclasses to take the risk of being persecuted in order to alter consciousness for pleasure or to satisfy curiousity until said underclasses are willing to stop said rulers from dictating morality.
Also, the famed baby boomer generation is getting into those golden years with cancers and chronic problems. Being a sizeable number, that also accounts for the consumption levels.
, or just have greedy pharmacutical companies who want to make the most money they can. Don't get me wrong I wish we had those drugs down here - it would have made my life a lot easier - but were they entirely necessary - no.
