Tom Petty did OD

Tom Petty dies?

 

Just wait until some poor kid gets ahold of one.

I don't often agree with you, but, yeah...whoever allowed this to hit the market wasn't thinking.

 

Well at least we all know how to sit back and judge him now, which is obviously the point of the whole thread.

 

It's not hard to get over prescribed in America. We have representatives from each drug that show up all the time in the doctor's office. They buy lunch for the staff or basically anything else needed to get sales. The same drugs advertised during the evening news.
A doctor here also pays in some cases millions in malpractice insurance. There is a lot of incentive to give drugs out. America from my limited world experience worships perception drugs unlike anyone else. Whatever the problem there is a pill for it and you should tell your doctor to give you this pill. The commercials literally say "ask your doctor if X is right for you".

If doctor #1 does not give me all I want I can see a second doctor. They don't talk to each other.

Much of the lobbying against medical marijuana comes from the pain killer manufactures. They like having a culture where minor pain is treated by serious drugs almost chemically identical to heroin. When problems occur it's the user's fault and not the inherent nature of the drug.

In this culture lots of people who don't want to be "high" end up addicted to pain killers. An old rocker like Tom Petty sure he probably knew what those drugs could do but it's more likely he just kept taking them without realizing what was happening before it was too late.

 

In the case of narcotics, it's all cross-referenced through computers at the pharmacies.

 

In most states... Not sure if there is a federal law about that yet.

 

Yes, thats probably more accurate than what I was going on about

 

I just noticed something!

Are you squeezing your own tits in your profile pic?

 

He's Beating His Chest......Gorilla's Do That.....If I Couldn't See His Hands I Would Be More Concerned.......



Cheers Glen.

 

His hands are open vs. in fists.

 

I'm going to go with squeezing my tits, its funnier

 

Well in my little shithole state (SC) I can promise you it is on the borderline of being impossible to be over prescribed narcotics. ALL the doctors are connected via computer. In fact, I've been told by a couple of people that go to the pain management clinic (who were told by the nurses there) they think SC's drug computers are connected with NC and probably GA.

They piss test you every single time you go to your doctor's appointment to make sure you have ONLY what you are being prescribed. AND they are not ever in a million years going to prescribe to anybody here in this state all that Tom Petty had on his script list. Lord God No that won't happen around here. The ONLY doctors that can prescribe narcotics other than pain management clinics are orthopedists, rheumatologists, and some surgeons or specialists. All but the rheumatologists are only supposed to prescribe ONE type of pain med for a limited amount of time. The list of meds they can choose from is very short.

My bff knew someone that died not long ago from cancer and they didn't even have all prescribed to them that Petty had going on.

If other states did like SC, there might be more people hurting...but I damn guarantee this opioid epidemic I keep hearing about would come to a rapid end. AND there are other alternatives to narcotics. At the risk of sounding like Newbie One, acupuncture is a very very viable way to alleviate pain.

Of course I feel I must end this by saying (after all of that) that sometimes a narcotic pill is the ONLY way some people are going to even get the edge taken off of their pain AND they should NOT have to jump through rings of fire to get the pills that will help them.

 

I think you are being a tad bit generous to the rest of the U.S.when you say SC is a "shithole". You know there are 49 other "shitholes" that make this pathetic nation up! Canada do you have room for one more?

 

if he hadn't been in the big money music league, would this thread even exist?

people stress themselves to become a big deal. and sometimes it kills them.

i guess whether its worth it is in the eye of the beholder.

personally i can think of other things i'd rather do then want anyone to be impressed by me.