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<blockquote data-quote="druryj" data-source="post: 3249524" data-attributes="member: 10465"><p>I am very sorry to hear this, and I didn't mean to cause any grief here, or bring up bad memories. Perhaps many of us, including me, do not really understand the psychology of addiction. I simply feel that for most people, the choice to over-use prescribed opioids is on them, but then, there is genetics, family history, circumstances... a lot of things can play into someone taking too much and dying, in the extreme, or just getting addicted even. Depression? We know that seems to go hand in hand with alcoholism in many case, but I don't know about drug use, whether its prescribed or bought on the street. But, I suspect its much the same. Anyway, I'm sorry to have brought it up...but opioids are all over the news and I am curious what people think about the so-called crisis.</p><p></p><p>Doctors have been prescribing opioid pain meds for a long time; its just not a new problem. Look back at the time of the Civil War, all they had for serious pain relief then was opium or morphine, and you could easily buy legal opium-based products all day every day. Women sipped laudanum for their nerves...Salesmen in a wagon sold the stuff by the bottle; "Dr Jurd's Miracle Cure-All" and other snake oil concoctions. Think about how the effects of addiction hit the nation post-war then...many able bodied men, physically wounded and addicted to opium or morphine, thrown back into a tumultuous society. About that time, heroin was created, and from some reading I have done, it was supposed to help cure morphine addiction, much like some thought morphine would help cure opium addiction. Well we know how that worked out. </p><p></p><p>Some of our returning vets even today may be in the same place, just a century and a half later. We just don't always learn from past mistakes it seems.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://methoide.fcm.arizona.edu/infocenter/index.cfm?stid=174" target="_blank">https://methoide.fcm.arizona.edu/infocenter/index.cfm?stid=174</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="druryj, post: 3249524, member: 10465"] I am very sorry to hear this, and I didn't mean to cause any grief here, or bring up bad memories. Perhaps many of us, including me, do not really understand the psychology of addiction. I simply feel that for most people, the choice to over-use prescribed opioids is on them, but then, there is genetics, family history, circumstances... a lot of things can play into someone taking too much and dying, in the extreme, or just getting addicted even. Depression? We know that seems to go hand in hand with alcoholism in many case, but I don't know about drug use, whether its prescribed or bought on the street. But, I suspect its much the same. Anyway, I'm sorry to have brought it up...but opioids are all over the news and I am curious what people think about the so-called crisis. Doctors have been prescribing opioid pain meds for a long time; its just not a new problem. Look back at the time of the Civil War, all they had for serious pain relief then was opium or morphine, and you could easily buy legal opium-based products all day every day. Women sipped laudanum for their nerves...Salesmen in a wagon sold the stuff by the bottle; "Dr Jurd's Miracle Cure-All" and other snake oil concoctions. Think about how the effects of addiction hit the nation post-war then...many able bodied men, physically wounded and addicted to opium or morphine, thrown back into a tumultuous society. About that time, heroin was created, and from some reading I have done, it was supposed to help cure morphine addiction, much like some thought morphine would help cure opium addiction. Well we know how that worked out. Some of our returning vets even today may be in the same place, just a century and a half later. We just don't always learn from past mistakes it seems. [URL]https://methoide.fcm.arizona.edu/infocenter/index.cfm?stid=174[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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