Oxycontin

Why do you think they call it dope?

Seems like an important development: Purdue family members added in their personal capacity to New York's omnibus opiate lawsuit

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/28/opioid-crisis-sackler-family-purdue-pharma-new-york-sues

good

I've got a good "well, actually" here, not relevant to the revive sorry, the bioavailability of oxy is lower when taken nasally than when taken orally. adam from 17 years ago is a dumbass

ILX was a real trip in 2002 huh

IIRC only nerds read the Internet in 2002 so you could say whatever you wanted

Holds hand up.

By 2002 I'd been reading and writing stuff on the internet for about five years, making me ultra-nerdy.

2002 was the year where it was inconceivable to use drugs in any way other than snorting, I guess

I remember telling my dad in the mid 90s that for xmas I wanted "the world wide web."

It's too bad ILX requires a login, we're missing out on some quality drop-ins.

xp In 2002 I unfortunately knew a lot of people whose preferred method of drug ingestion was smoking (meth).

*hipster voice* I started using email and hanging out on IRC in 1993.

reading American Overdose at present and it's a tough read. Not just having known a couple people back home who have dealt with the fallout from OxyContin addiction, not just the awareness of the cost of it across the country, but the brazen "fake news"-ish attitude of Purdue and even some of the FDA.

sorry, a bit personal . raw nerve . i am calm
― anthony, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

as he always does

this from patrick radden keefe's empire of pain is wild

...and it was not unusual for some patients who had been using OxyContin to find that they were experiencing symptoms of withdrawal--such as itching, nausea, or the shakes--before the twelve hour dosing cycle was over. This was not actually addition, Haddox argued, but mere physical dependence, which is different. In fact, he coined a term, "pseudo-addiction," which Purdue started to incorporate into its promotional literature. As one pamphlet distributed by the company explained, pseudo-addiction "seems similar to addiction, but is due to unrelieved pain." A misunderstanding of this subtle phenomenon might lead doctors to "inappropriately stigmatize the patient with the label 'addict.' But pseudo-addiction generally stops once the pain is relieved, the pamphlet continued, "often through an increase in opioid dose." If you're experiencing withdrawal between doses, the company suggested, the answer is to increase the dose.

So the way you tell if it's pain and not addiction is if taking more drugs makes you feel better. Got it.

I'm a pseudo-alcoholic, a drink or two usually calms the nerves