In Tampa visit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recommends aspirin over opioids for pain relief

[DonViejo]

Source: The Tampa Bay Times




Dan Sullivan

Published: February 7, 2018Updated: February 7, 2018 at 09:43 PM

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."

Sessions delivered a 25-minute address at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa, speaking to local police and federal prosecutors about the devastating impact of opioid abuse, including heroin and its high-powered cousin, fentanyl.



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[chwaliszewski]

1. I thought aspirin should be used instead of birth control pills...

[pazzyanne]

2. Asprin only works

to prevent pregnancy if you put it between your knees.

[Maxheader]

3. let me yank your molars out

and see you deal with it using aspirin.

[WiseElder]

4. Another example

of Trump hiring the brightest and best...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Before people start giving him a hard time. Let's remember

there is no medicine or "science" in Elfinland. They deal with magic only so he's not familiar with "our strange ways".

[Bayard]

20. That!

[forkol]

6. I am going to need something a bit stronger than that....

To stop this pain in my ass....

[iluvtennis]

23. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Agree

[PatSeg]

7. There you go!

Opiod problem solved! Who knew it would be so simple?

[LakeArenal]

11. More like simple-minded..

WH is completely dense..

[PatSeg]

16. Idiocracy in the real world

[justhanginon]

8. Obviously this mental midget has never experienced chronic pain.

In years past I suffered many kidney stone attacks which does involve rather severe pain. Mine was able to be taken care of medically,(no aspirin or prayer involved) just really good doctors. At times they did prescribe strong pain killers for some relief but for a short time before medical procedures. I simply cannot imagine having to live with chronic pain day after day after day with no relief. There has to be some way for prescribing these drugs for those clearly in need separately from controlling the abuse. The answers are way above my pay grade but they must find them without harming others who legimitately need them.
And enough of the "take some aspirin sometimes" bullshite from someone anxious to prove he is an idiot.

[LiberalLovinLug]

40. I feel your pain

There is an overreaction on opiod usage. I suffer from chronic back pain. I used to get a mild dose pill of oxicodone for when it got really bad. My doctor died and I had a new one. He was a younger doctor who refused to renew my prescription because of fear he would get heat for prescribing them. I never took enough or often enough to become addicted. Only took a pill when I really needed it for pain. But now I must just suffer through it.

Also I think, why is 'addiction' worse than suffering in pain? Even if my condition was worse and I had to take it often and in quantities that made me dependent on it, perhaps as in your situation. That word "addicted" has become so poisioned. Even though most of North America is addicted to caffeine, and that seems to be no problem. I'd rather be addicted to my pain relief than not have any pain relief.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. It's the Foster Friess cure for everything

[Freethinker65]

10. Lucky he is not a doctor. He could get sued for malpractice.

[world wide wally]

12. He's moonlighting as Surgeon General too.

[Javaman]

13. ask him if that would work if...

someone kicked him in the balls.

[MontanaMama]

29. Oh yeah!

I hereby volunteer to land the first test kick on the Evil Elfin AG. In the name of science, of course!

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Sounds like little Jeffy has never experienced extreme pain.

I had a bad staph infection (now cured, thanks to strong antibiotics) and spent two months on norco. It took the edge off the pain and enabled me to walk since the infection was in my ankle.

Aspirin, my ass.

[GWC58]

32. Yes, my failed cervical fusions and failed

back surgery cry out for Bufferin!?! This man, if that’s the word, truly is clueless, or purposely ignorant, or dimly dense. Bufferin? Wow, who the fuck knew?!

[Miigwech]

15. Jeff Sessions hands are softer than a baby's

He has never done any physical labor in his life so how would he know about physical pain that comes with breaking your body. Flabby, even if normal weight. trump is the fat, flabby type who loves the hard handshake but he is a piece of flab.

[dhill926]

17. fucking asshole....n/t

[logosoco]

18. A person can OD on aspirin...

no one has had a fatal OD of cannabis!

[turbinetree]

19. Well since your a worthless AG, and now want to practice medicine

have you decided there snowflake, if, just maybe that in the up coming elections, that you could mosey on over to the FEC and ask that paper ballots be used this November.................instead of trying to practice being a doctor.......................


You do realize there snowflake that there is classified information that voter rolls have been penetrated in states .............



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[Justice]

21. he actually said BUFFERIN - who uses BUFFERIN??

[jmowreader]

37. The same guy who thinks it will relieve cancer pain

Someone MUST be using Bufferin or they wouldn't still be making it.

But come on...someone needs to drop a 300-pound anvil on Jefferson Beauregard's toes, give him a bottle of Bufferin, and ask him the next day if he still thinks Bufferin is a replacement for opioids.

[Marcuse]

39. Bufferin is manufactured by an Indian firm under investigation by the FDA.

Perhaps Sessions has a relationship with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Inc.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i32/Dr-Reddys-struggles-meet-FDA.html

[Solly Mack]

22. Sessions should take a powder.

[SWBTATTReg]

24. Is Sessions a doctor now? I'm certainly ...

not going to listen to this blank of a blank vs. my doctors. Period.

[moonseller66]

25. How about instead...

we just start prescribing bullets!

Here ya go! When the pain gets too bad, just bite on one of these. NO prescription necessary. Just stop by any ol' NRA Pharma-ass-ee and pick up some pain killers! Oh, and don't worry about that fake news about lead!

And while you're at it you diminutive orc, how about you just bite this? I guarantee it'll make you smarter! LOL!

[jmowreader]

38. People are already using bullets to relieve pain.

I know you're being facetious, but chronic pain is a very strong risk factor in suicide.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nation-in-pain/201511/chronic-pain-and-the-risk-suicide

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. You are not qualified or intelligent enough to stock the shelves at a pharmacy let alone

make suggestions about health care or for instance have ANYTHING to do with our laws or justice.

[redstatebluegirl]

27. I will remember that the next time my back hurts so bad that I cry.

I'm sure those couple of aspirin will do the trick.

[Gothmog]

28. Sessions should be recommending Keebler cookies as relief for pain

[mvd]

30. Really silly as always. It's going to take more than aspirin..

to rid the country of the pain these Repukes are causing. It will take a good dose of Mueller and votes!

[GWC58]

35. How do we treat the pain of

PERJURY, Mr. Attorney General? In fact why are YOU still USAG?!!

[tonyt53]

31. Wouldn't it be just as effective to give somebody a leather belt to bite on?

[LonePirate]

33. Didnt Republicans scream about the government coming between you and your doctor?

Sessions clearly needs to take that advice.

[Vinca]

34. He's obviously never experienced agonizing pain.

[Cold War Spook]

36. No one should ever take Dilaudin-HP

unless you like walking up the walls of your bedroom and then across the ceiling and looking down at your spouse.

[SkyDaddy7]

41. I truly despise this...

Troglodyte!

As someone who has severe neuropathic pain down the entire left side of my body from a spinal cord injury at C 4-5 & know others online who suffer from severe chronic pain I can only hope one day he remembers he said something so fucking stupid! But he won’t...That is the problem with IDIOTS like Sessions they’re too fucking ignorant to know just how stupid the ideas they hold are!!!

Meanwhile millions suffer due to their stupidity!!

[tanyev]

42. The same aspirin I am supposed to hold between my knees, or a different one?

[steve2470]

43. Can we say fucking moron? And lacking in empathy at the same time? nt

[mpcamb]

44. Aspirin Jeff, the pain sufferer's friend.

I'm sure he took aspirin's bleed propensity into account in his recommendation.