TIL that the United States uses approximately 80% of the 50 tons of oxycodone produced world wide every year.
incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Technical-P...Posted Apr 15, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC
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This statistic is misleading. You can't infer much from this about opiate/opioid use in America vs other countries. If you were to find the statistic on codeine use I assure you that America's use is much lower than many places on earth. I wouldn't look too hard at this and make assumptions. This is one opioid of hundreds, it's a bit shocking, but if you were to look at use of all opiates/opioids used throughout other countries I don't doubt America's use would be up near the top, even if you look per capita, but I bet you wouldn't find the difference of use vs other developed countries to be quite as shocking.
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Add team america theme song.
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When I younger (due to my back) I used quite a few different painkillers. I have no clue why anyone would use oxycodone other than because they're addicted to it. It makes you feel like complete shit and as a painkiller is very ineffective. Vicodin on the other hand is the nectar of the gods.
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Maybe it's just me, but the constipation I had was god awful. The morphine coming out of surgery. And that's interesting that you thought Vicodin was a lot better because they work by the same mechanism (doses might have been different)
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Everyone has different experiences and reactions to various drugs. For me oxycodone made me feel more run down, frayed, and if I missed one dose I felt immediate withdrawal symptoms. Where as vicodin usually killed the pain outright and then brought on a wave of euphoria. Tramadol felt a bit like vicodin's little brother; mildly effective with an occasional upswing of mania. Then Fentanyl is what I imagine cocaine is like. Just couldn't stop talking and got extreme joy out of organizing and cleaning the pain was still present but I didn't care.
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I totally agree with the different reactions, it's just interesting to hear from people when all I'm learning is dosing and mechanism. Also the tramadol/vicodin comparison and the fentanyl sounds spot on to what I imagined to bit so that's cool.
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Nothing in my life had killed a migraine quicker than vicodin. 10 minutes and it was gone, and I was high.
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If you think that's bad, never use Tramadol often. You get such awful constipation you'll want to rip your intestines out.
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For every person who says this about oxycodone, I can find a person who says the same thing about Vicodin. And a person who says it about both. And one who says it about neither. People tolerate different opiates in very different ways.
I don't have a preference between hydrocodone and oxycodone, but morphine makes me sick and codeine makes me itchy. I'm glad there are other options.
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Ex pharmacy from Florida here.
No, old people aren't known for oxy here in Florida.
And yes, majority of the oxy users are straight crackheads you see on TV. The stereotype of majority of them being skinny white people is accurate.
Yes, the doctors who prescribes them are assholes, but the patient knows that the doctors will give them the scripts(that's why they go to them in the first place). It's a common misconception that doctors purposely gets patients addicted, when in fact most doctors refuse to write C2 scripts.
We don't call cops on these crackheads or abusers. It's not worth our time.
On average, I denied 25 scripts a day where I worked.
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The rest of the world uses stuff that actually works.
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Had surgery last December, I can definitely attest to it working.
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Maybe it's just me then.
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There are fast metabolizers of the drug so it wouldn't be surprising at all
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Mostly in southeast Ohio and West Virginia, probably.
I can't find a source on this so I didn't post it, but according to my professor 90% of it is used in Florida. That's 75% of the worlds use.
I don't doubt it at all.
Florida is the state with the highest elderly population. I wonder if they account for the highest use, since old people often need pain relieve meds?
Definitely is at least part of the season. Also many doctors are very likely to prescribe there.
90% of it may be sold in Florida for use up and down the east coast....
Let my people go
I've heard that opiates are a big issue in Cuyahoga Falls, actually. That's in Northeast.
Opiates are definitely a problem in many areas of the country, no doubt about that
Florida would like to invite you to a party...