> Anesthesia requires massive doses of drugs we normally consider unconscionably dangerous in public discourse: Fentanyl, propofol, Xanax, ketamine. Recreation

> Anesthesia requires massive doses of drugs we normally consider unconscionably dangerous in public discourse: Fentanyl, propofol, Xanax, ketamine. Recreational, unsupervised self-administration of those drugs in recreational contexts is nothing like carefully measured and monitored administration in a hospital context. An Anesthesiologist carefully administering calculated doses of Fentanyl to a fasted patient who is being directly monitored and surrounded by professionals capable of emergency resuscitation has almost nothing in common with an opioid addict taking a random dose of what they've been told is Fentanyl. Don't get unnecessary surgeries, obviously, but don't confuse surgical intervention with drug abuse.