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> People are not on any meaningful scale in the US using pain killers to avoid dental care, unless you mean something like aspirin. You've contradicted yoursel
by markdown 5y ago
> People are not on any meaningful scale in the US using pain killers to avoid dental care, unless you mean something like aspirin.
You've contradicted yourself there. "They aren't, but they are with this one painkiller."
- blululu 5y agoNot really a big contradiction unless you want to be really pedantic. Over the counter painkillers and prescription painkillers are very different beasts. Painkillers as a social ill pretty much exclusively refers to the latter. Nobody would say “I’m on painkillers” while taking aspirin.
- markdown 5y ago> Nobody would say “I’m on painkillers” while taking aspirin. Really? That's exactly what one would say in my country... though they'd more likely to be talking about paracetamol. The strongest one that most people know about is Panadeine Forte (paracetamol + codeine).
- ch4s3 5y agoPeople usually mean something else by "painkillers", and I wnet on to explain that there doesn't seem to be any evidence behind the claim.
- lbrito 5y agoMy bad, I meant any drugstore analgesic, OTC or not (I'm not in the US). I assumed painkiller was a synonym. I wasn't aware of the connotation.
- avgcorrection 5y agoYou might be proving his point if painkillers have been so normalized that aspirin is not considered a painkiller any more.