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No more so than usual. Lighten up a bit.

No need to get upset. The issues with opioids and all that go with them are well known and well documented. People have different tolerances and the lightning in the bottle worked better for you than others.

That’s probably why we had the issue. One guy faces pain and trauma head on, the other wants to get looped. Glad it worked for you though.

The problem is multi-faceted, but often the doctor shopper was hooked by a trusted medical professional who sold out for the money, or didn’t follow the trends and problems that in retrospect seems pretty obvious. Kudos to the good docs who avoided this whole mess. My dentist and I were speaking about this one day—he had torn an ACL or had some other knee issue, and his doc wrote some obscene amount of pills for pain. Can’t recall dosage but he got something like 25 pills in the prescription. He was stunned…and that was one script, one time long after I as a layman understood there was a problem. In the end, I we likely dealt with the tip of the iceberg worst offenders, and the finger being pointed at pharma gave offending physicians a finger to point away from themselves.

That’s because the walls be a’closin!

Absolutely, though what was amazing was the scope of the problem and how it snuck up on the medical profession. Just goes to show when you put a profit motive out there it often just comes back to $$$. At the same time though, I’m certain there are more than a few family members of addicts living and dead wishing the doc who got their family members hooked had gotten the blowed up treatment before they ever suggested/prescribed anything.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/opioids-doctors-prescriptions-payments/ all too familiar a problem.

See, this is how we learn and grow together. Thank you.

You seem profoundly concerned about this, but I used a hashtag. The guy is obviously a legophobe.

Where are you getting this? The one and only man ever capable of corruption in Ukraine was forced out of power in an heroic act that may have maybe possibly coincidentally occasionally had some benefits for other people. That happened years ago.

Or, they are really tiny people and ate on a Lego table. #perspective All are welcome, all are loved.

Good Lord, I watching this lady and my heart was breaking for her. I thought I had been watching for 15 mins, it was only 1 min 32 seconds—-it’s like she made time crawl. She’s upset with her moms, she’s upset over the east wing, which she likely wouldn’t know was the East Wing in photos, and the Jackie O rose gardens where JFK may have pollinated Marilyn Monroe. I wish her well.

Joe hasn't posted here in many hours, and last we knew, he had an air of sadness around him that can only be described as profound. I'm concerned, not profoundly, but probably in the "moderately" category. I guess I would say that I'm moderately concerned that Fergie was profoundly sad and is now ostensibly absent. Prayers all around to everyone, even the ***** and the people who so-label them.

I enjoyed the previous iteration, more voices make for a better experience. However, let's be fair, certain posters were bounced and they took other good posters with them. I enjoyed interacting with the vast majority of the posters who frequent the other board, I just am a creature of habit. Btw, when I first started posting, one guy was wound very tight. I hate to misname him, but maybe OC in something? I recall he sorta threatened me with a **** storm for reasons I cannot recall (probably sarcasm or irreverence on my art--I'm in recovery still). I'm a pretty average guy....and have never tried to convince myself that I am tougher than I actually am. However, it struck me as delightful and hilarious that an anonymous person was threatening another anonymous person on a message board.

Come on, Boyst. While there are a precious few apparently knowledgeable football folks on the main board, it's really a compilation of spleen jokes, pegula plane sightings, tempo, and we're going to win it all or the sky is falling posts. Even the people that seem to offer insight are spitballing from a perspective completely unlike that which McD and Beane deal with. In other words, it's mostly a bunch of posters posting about things they really don't know much about. Oh, and the occasionally grumpy moderator trying to herd cats. Now, that said, it's a great board and a place for people to shoot the ****. One of my favorite elements is when someone drops a good one liner in an otherwise serious conversation. If people want to do that here...so? Let's put away the yearbook for the good old days, let people live and let live.