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Re:How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across A... by awavering on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:01PM (#10933006)
Recommended reading if this interests you: Dreamland tells the story of intersecting prescription pill and heroin use in America.

http://www.samquinones.com/books/dreamland/

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Re:How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across A... by MicroBerto on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:07PM (#10933553)
It's maddening.

Prescription opiate use has gotten so bad that Big Pharma is now heavily advertising an anti-constipation pill for all these addicts, with the most ridiculous commercial I've ever seen: a woman walks around town with her opioid "bff" that happens to have muscles.

https://i.imgur.com/NMn59EC.jpg

Seriously, if this alone doesn't spell doom for your country and its health care system, I'm not sure what does.

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Re:How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across A... by phillipamann on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @08:00PM (#10935329)
What is the name of this anti-constipation drug and do you have a link to the commercial?
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Re:How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across A... by refurb on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @08:49PM (#10935514)
I'm guessing it's Relistor? It was recently approved for constipation caused by opioids.

To be honest, opioid constipation is a huge problem. It's a great drug to have.

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Re:How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across A... by Healthyme15 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:21AM (#11019532)
I think for chronic constipation, you can also use this Digestic by Mimonis which is very good in treating constipation problem. I have been save from my long battle of constipation that is why I can say it has been proven by mine to be effective.
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Re:How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across A... by Healthyme15 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @09:19AM (#11019514)
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Re:How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across A... by MicroBerto on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:53PM (#10959190)
Definitely not doubting that. I just hate to see solutions that treat the effect and not the cause. So. Many. Commercials.
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