Health

I believe.

And while on the subject of opioids I'd like to ask one of those doctors or whoever is making up these laws where the fuck they were when I took Ibuprofen for years and no one told me "Hey that stuff will rip up your stomach eventually"! No "I'm worried about you" for any over-the-counter drugs but say the word Opiate and everyone's frigging hair goes on fire! And the more I learn about drugs it seems like, besides a danger of addiction, opiates seem to be safer than most others, especially when laid next to those biologic drugs for autoimmune disorders like Rheumatoid Arthritis. This is just an anecdote but my uncle took one, (I think it was Etanercept) and within a year developed ALS. I don't think you can prove it was a cause but either way it would have been better to put the poor guy on a drug that would have relieved his pain. (My mom told me years ago that he asked the doctor to chop off all his toes because of the pain.

I also remember Dr. Drew Pinsky on some Youtube talk show saying that unless the pain comes from cancer opiates should never be prescribed. How the hell does your body know what is the underlying cause and chose whether or not it will respond to a pain medication?

I do take Tylenol but it kind of scares me because it is supposed to be bad for your liver and it doesn't work as well. (I have taken liver supplements for many years just because of all the medication I have had to take.