Cachoo
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Public service announcement-
If you or someone you know is taking potent opioids please consider having a Naloxone kit on hand at all times. Learn how to administer it. You could save a life.
Tolerance to pain medication is not the same as addiction.There are 2 domains... physical and psychological. Pain is pain and should not be overlapped erroneously with other types of addiction. Yes there can be physical tolerance but there is so much more to substance use disorder.
That said, I am so sad to hear it was a possible accidental overdose.
And yes Fetanyl can be accesed outside of the hospital. 'Off the boat', shady docs, double doctoring, pharmacy robberies, 'fell off the truck', people sell their own Rx, stealing from family/friends. etc.
That is a shame. Doctor Drew was on CNN tonight and believed a strong Fetanyl patch worn as instructed would release medication over many hours and shouldn't cause heart failure. But he said it is common for abusers to break the patch open and eat or shoot at once. That is scary given that F is even stronger than heroin. I still am curious to know who supplied Prince.