Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:12 AM
HAB911 (8,221 posts)
jefferson beauregard sessions iii sez aspirin over opioids for pain relief
TAMPA — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has drawn jeers for suggesting that people in pain should consider over-the-counter Bufferin instead of opioids.
On Wednesday, Sessions was in Tampa, touting the Trump administration’s efforts to combat drug abuse and trafficking. This time, he broadened his suggestion to aspirin. "I am operating on the assumption that this country prescribes too many opioids," Sessions said. "People need to take some aspirin sometimes." http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/In-Tampa-visit-Attorney-General-Jeff-Sessions-recommends-aspirin-over-opioids-for-pain-relief_165258353
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HAB911 | Feb 2018 | OP |
riversedge | Feb 2018 | #1 | |
Dave Starsky | Feb 2018 | #2 | |
Lars39 | Feb 2018 | #7 | |
dchill | Feb 2018 | #11 | |
Ohiogal | Feb 2018 | #3 | |
HAB911 | Feb 2018 | #4 | |
HAB911 | Feb 2018 | #5 | |
Guy Whitey Corngood | Feb 2018 | #6 | |
dembotoz | Feb 2018 | #8 | |
writerJT | Feb 2018 | #9 | |
dchill | Feb 2018 | #10 | |
superpatriotman | Feb 2018 | #12 | |
unblock | Feb 2018 | #13 | |
ck4829 | Feb 2018 | #14 | |
LuckyCharms | Feb 2018 | #15 | |
A HERETIC I AM | Feb 2018 | #16 | |
SamKnause | Feb 2018 | #17 | |
SonofDonald | Feb 2018 | #18 | |
spanone | Feb 2018 | #19 | |
HAB911 | Feb 2018 | #20 | |
spanone | Feb 2018 | #21 | |
dsc | Feb 2018 | #22 | |
Nitram | Feb 2018 | #23 |
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:13 AM
riversedge (65,412 posts)
1. Sessions is not only a bigot but is stupid!
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:13 AM
Dave Starsky (5,914 posts)
2. Or how about a hot poultice?
Or perhaps some liniment?
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Response to Dave Starsky (Reply #2)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:22 AM
Lars39 (25,827 posts)
7. Or an asafetida tied around the neck
Geez, next he’ll be extolling the virtues of kerosene.
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Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:14 AM
Ohiogal (27,071 posts)
3. Maybe Trump's religion advisor
will tell everyone to pray the pain away.
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Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:15 AM
HAB911 (8,221 posts)
4. Musterole! Hurts so bad nothing else matters!
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:17 AM
HAB911 (8,221 posts)
5. Aspirin would eventually eat away your stomach, then no more pain!!
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:19 AM
Guy Whitey Corngood (25,868 posts)
6. That muthafucka's dumber than a bag of confederate rifles. nt
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:23 AM
writerJT (190 posts)
9. Uh, no, Doctor Sessions.
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:24 AM
dchill (34,945 posts)
10. He knows he's not SURGEON General, right?
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:28 AM
superpatriotman (6,079 posts)
12. Aspirin between the knees is an effective birth control, too
Am I right, Ladies?
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Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:29 AM
unblock (51,287 posts)
13. Sure Ill take something that doesnt work, makes my tongue swell, and makes my bleed out of my ass.
Thanks for the tip, dr. Sh*thead.
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Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:51 AM
ck4829 (34,292 posts)
14. Here's an idea - Less brutal working conditions for the lower class, punish employers who make
it so that employees are terrified to call off if they are sick or injured, maybe we should start looking at the fact that taking opiates isn't the beginning of the problem, but just needing to function in the joke of a society Sessions and his buddies are creating for people who are not them, not as rich as them.
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Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:53 AM
LuckyCharms (14,410 posts)
15. Hey Sessions, take 2 aspirin and punch yourself in your stupid face.
Response to LuckyCharms (Reply #15)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 09:56 AM
A HERETIC I AM (23,590 posts)
16. LOL...and then don't bother calling in the morning....
or EVER again, for that matter.
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Response to LuckyCharms (Reply #15)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:00 AM
SamKnause (12,709 posts)
17. Thanks for the chuckle.
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Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:02 AM
SonofDonald (1,973 posts)
18. I've always heard you have to know someone to hate them
Not in this instance, I've jumped through every flippin dammed hoop they've put in front of me for 8 years to stay on pain meds.
With a list of 12 diagnoses that allow me to take opiates aspirin will not cut it. I guess he would rather I can't get them anymore, they are already lowering my daily amounts due to a forthcoming federal guideline that doesn't even exist yet. After I dropped 1/3 of my meds per day ON MY OWN BECAUSE I WANTED TO TRY. Yup, I hate the fucker. |
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:04 AM
spanone (133,359 posts)
19. i wish beauregard a kidney stone for everyday of his remaining life, i'll supply a bottle of aspirin
Response to spanone (Reply #19)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:06 AM
HAB911 (8,221 posts)
20. Oh god yes
may I never have another, it took morphine just for me to lie still for x-rays
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Response to HAB911 (Reply #20)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:07 AM
spanone (133,359 posts)
21. yep, i've had the morphine too....OUCH
Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:07 AM
dsc (51,664 posts)
22. I hate Sessions with the intensity of a million suns
but that said, he has a point here in regards to opioids. I recently had a very minor surgery and explicitly told the doctor that I was in recovery and I still was given a script for two weeks of pain pills, which I didn't even fill as I honestly had no real pain. These pills are way over prescribed and that needs to stop. Most other countries don't prescribe opioids after minor surgery. When my dad had his first open heart surgery in the late 1970's he was told to take tylenol.
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Response to HAB911 (Original post)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 11:44 AM
Nitram (20,348 posts)
23. Actually, what Sessions said is probably borrowed from new medical guidelines that encourge the use
of alternatives to opioids when treating pain. Research shows that opioids are not appropriate when treating chronic pain (as opposed to acute pain suffered immediately after an injury or an operation). Over time opioids actually increase the body's sensitivity to pain. Doctors are encouraged to help patients reduce the level of pain rather than try to totally eliminate it in the case of chronic pain. Meditation, Estim therapy, ibuprofin and aspirin are indeed recommended in many cases that were formerly automatically treated with addictive opioids.
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