Visits by older women after suicide tries are tied to insomnia, anxiety drugs, study finds
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from:msnbc.comER visits by suicidal women have doubled
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Who is giving out all these powerful narcotic prescriptions?! I've broken bones (including an ankle and clavicle) and when I asked the hospital doctor about the pain, they told me to take a Tylenol when I get home. Yet these days every high school kid and housewife has Oxycontin or Hydrocodone?????
Go to Florida, pill mills are a big business down there, I'm sure most of the people got their drugs from that state one way or another.
There was another article on MSN a while back about Medicaid/Medicare recipients who have Oxycontin prescribed to them, fill the script, then sell the drugs on the street. Addicts are not above stealing these drugs from those who legitimately need them, either - my family had to hide my terminally-ill grandmother's Oxydontin from my cousin. And several pharmacies in my area have been robbed at gunpoint, not of money, but of narcotics.
Sandy the pharmacy break ins occur in the big city about 45 min. east of me too. I am always hearing about them in the news.
A nurse friend of mine just told me a little while ago that when she had a sister that was on Oxy that she kept it in a brown bag in the fridge labeled SAGE so that her neighbor boys wouldn't take them. Gotta say I am not sure I would have ever thought of that one lol.
I live in a small town, and it has happened here and in neighboring towns several times. It's really about the only crime we have much trouble with here. One murder in the county in the 8 years I've lived here, and I feel safe if I go walking at night. But I wouldn't want to be a pharmacist.
One of the worst places I've heard of for oxycontin addiction (and drugs in general) is Meigs County, Ohio. Very rural area, but everyone for miles knew that if you wanted to score some drugs, that was your place.
Never heard of the sage idea, either. Very creative.
Our major crime here in the woods is meth. I really get sick of hearing about all the meth labs that got busted, blew up, yadda yadda.
Not that it isn't a big deal but wish it wasn't in the news so much
Lot of meth here, too. But since it can be manufactured fairly easily, nobody knocks over a pharmacy to get it.
If you suffer from insomnia, read this great article:
I admit I know little about the oxycontin or hydrocodone..... But I wonder if there is any way that these 2 maybe have listed depression as a side effect?
Wakehead the sad truth is that while some doctors don't even want to prescribe anything (as in your case) others are very quick to prescribe anything!!!
I think it's more that these are drugs used by addicts, and addicts tend to be depressed with or without the drugs. Also, they are a pretty common way to commit suicide because they are sedating, cause euphoria (you might not care that you're dying), and are known by those contemplating suicide to cause breathing to stop.
They gave hubby oxy at the hospital once and he told me never wanted that sh** again because he vomitted for several hours after. I don't think I would like that either. Of course I didn't like holding his hand through it all either lol.
It doesn't do that to everyone, though. And the euphoria really hooks some people. The few times I've had narcotic painkillers, I HATED the feeling of not being in control. Once was after a c-section, and I was scared to pick up my son, afraid I might drop him because I was so loopy. But as much as I hated it, some people can't do without it. Or think they can't.