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There's almost no chance of you developing an opiate addiction from a prescribed dose if you don't already have a history of addiction: https://www.google.com/a
by cm2012 8y ago
There's almost no chance of you developing an opiate addiction from a prescribed dose if you don't already have a history of addiction: https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-science-says-to-do-if-your-loved-one-has-an-opioid-addiction/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/wh...
This is a false narrative that needs to go away.
- Lxr 8y agoNon AMP: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-science-says-to-do-if-your-loved-one-has-an-opioid-addiction/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-science-says-to-do...
- DanBC 8y agoYou're pushing a narrative created by opioid manufacturers: "These meds aren't addictive if used to treat pain". That's only true (if it is true) if they're used short term. People in this thread aren't talking about acute pain, they're talking about chronic (long term) pain. It's likely that opioids are addictive if used long term to treat long term pain. Here's what actual doctors say: https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-awar... EDIT: FFS, your own link says this: > “Physiological dependence is the normal response to regular dosages of many medications, whether opioids or others. It also happens with beta blockers for high blood pressure,” said Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Your link says that opioids create physical addiction. The physical addiction to opioids causes all the factors of the newer definition of adddictive: tolerance, drug seeking, preoccupation, and continuing to take it even though you know it's harmful.
- justinjlynn 8y agoPhysiological dependence is a treatment complication to be managed. Corticosteroids, hormones, and other nonpsychoactive medications feature this issue too. It is part of the risk/benefit calculation. What's important is the psychological addiction. You can taper off of a medication on which you are physiologically dependent. However, if it makes you psychologically dependent, you can never forget the high. Turns out not having pain because a medication helps and you experience it when you stop makes people want to keep taking it. Who knew? It's when people take more than they need to to address their physical pain, that they experience psychological addiction, that they chase the high, that a problem develops.
- DanBC 8y agoThe psychological addictiveness of opioids is well established. Turns out not having pain because a medication helps and you experience it when you stop makes people want to keep taking it. Who knew? That is not what's happening. People take the medication to treat the pain. Their pain still exists. They develop a tolerance to opioids (one of the mechanisms of addiction) and need to increase the dose. Now they're taking very large -dangerously large- doses of opioids but are still in pain.
- srinivgp 8y agoRepeat after me. Addiction is not dependence. Dependence is not addiction. When I read "dependence is expected", I will not interpret it as "addiction is expected", and I will ESPECIALLY not immediately assume tolerance, drug seeking, preoccupation, or harming oneself just because of dependence.
- DanBC 8y agoOpioids cause tolerance, drug seeking, preoccupation, and continuance even though the patient knows they're harmful This behaviour is long established and well known.
- GordonS 8y agoI don't think blanket statements like this are helpful, and I think this should be prefaced with 'For some people'. Opioids do not cause drug seeking behaviour in all people.
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