Painkillers now cause more deaths in America than cocaine and heroin combined.
And I bet a good chunk of that is from acetaminophen overdose. Tylenol is toxic as fuck. The margin between “oh, I am feeling slight pain relief!” and “hey, my liver’s failing!” is really REALLY small. The news likes to spin painkiller overdose as people just chasing a high when a HUUUUUGE number of folks are just trying to, ya know, relieve pain when the Tylenol part of Tylenon+Codeine ends up killing them.
I’m wondering why they haven’t removed Tylenol from meds it’s used in because it is so toxic. Although, my doctor told me that part of the point of putting it in is because it’s toxic to keep people from taking more meds than they are supposed to, but how many people are given prescriptions and told, “If you take more than you are prescribed you’re setting yourself up for liver failure.”??? I was told AFTER I HAD ALREADY BEEN TAKING VICODIN FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS! Gee thanks for warning me doctor(s). I have chronic pain and at one point it was badly managed, so I started taking more and more vicodin just to function. I was up to 8 pills per day and that’s when my doctor told me about how toxic the Tylenol is.
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Painkillers now cause more deaths...America than cocaine and heroin combined.
