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Baconzgood's avatar

Very few people (and im sure he wants it "scrubbed" from his career), but Neil Young did a commercial for Michelob beer. In the late 80s.

After a bit of (actually alot) research I found the full commercial...its 300 seconds

They played it once during ½ time at the '89 Super Bowl

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSvzCNBvlQ

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boo radley's avatar

There but for the grace of God go I, having had severe chronic pain in the USA. I gave myself ulcers and gastritis with NSAIDs and Tylenol poisoning with chronic (careful!!) use of acetaminophen, but I am not sorry I skipped that one.

Of course, I took part in the Great Alternative, which was missing out on huge swathes of life. There's no real winners in the American health care system.

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Mommadillo's avatar

The way you curb abuse of painkillers is by making life less painful.

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Darrell Leland's avatar

I will never be able to describe just how banally, brutally selfish and evil the Sacklers and their like are. The only thing that comes close is a line from a recent Batman comic where Robin says, "Mister, you just redefined wrong."

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Thomas B.'s avatar

Healthcare professional here. Opioids are inanimate; they aren't bad per se. Ask someone with advanced cancer or someone who just had a major car accident if they think they're a bad thing. What they do need, however, is a provider who knows when to use them and when not to use them, and how to do it properly.

Having said that, there were a lot more people culpable in the Oxycontin tragedy then just the Sacklers, but yes, they were the instigators and I hope they pay - literally and figuratively.

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Boojum's avatar

I am one of those 13.8 million people who "abuse" opioids. I have inoperable thoracic disc degeneration and irreparable rotator cuff injuries (irreparable because there isn't enough supraspinatus tendon to hold a repair to the full thickness tears, several subscapularis tears with severe fatty atrophy, and bare joints with no tendon to fix) that cause constant severe pain. The only thing that allows me to function are opioids.

Stop treating everyone with inoperable chronic pain like they're fucking junkies. Opioid medication should be controlled, but for some people it's the only thing that permits them to work and make a living. In my case, I work in a field that requires a high degree of intellectual function and I'm one of the best at what I do, if the pain is controlled. If it isn't, I can't do my job.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I've been a chronic pain patient for years and require narcotic pain meds in order to retain some measure of function and I am also SICK to damned death of being treated like a fucking criminal.

For the record I am so damned tolerant of the meds I'm on I experience NO buzz or associated euphoria. Nor do I experience anything remotely approaching sufficient pain relief.

But I'll be damned if I'm going to step up to a Fentanyl patch as previously suggested by the ARNP formerly overseeing my care.

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Boojum's avatar

Same. My mom nearly OD'd on a fentanyl patch WHILE IN THE HOSPITAL (cancer) because they weren't paying attention to her fluids, she got dehydrated, and the fentanyl was building up in her bloodstream. They gave her Narcan and she went into ICU psychosis. That was a horrible day, but without the fentanyl, she would have been in screaming agony all the time.

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Shorter Ten's avatar

I am so sick of the demonization of opioids. I have taken them for decades, stopping periodically for various reasons, with no problem. This time I have stopped for about 5 months because the pain clinic I went to stopped providing medication management and only did interventional medicine, which wasn't suited to my problem except maybe a pain pump, which I thought a bit extreme. I have never gotten any kind if high on them and only know I've taken them because the pain stops. Because I have a major surgery coming up, that will require opioids during recovery, I thought I'll hold out until then. I will have to go back on them after recovery because I literally have no life while I am wracked with arthritic pain in my spine. I cannot do any of the things I enjoy, can't contribute to any housework, can't do physical therapy. Opioids have therapeutic value and I am so sick of the health group my GP is in treating them like poison. They will not prescribe them for ANYTHING.

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Virgiebeach's avatar

#DITTO. Alla dis. (different causes, same issues.) Also, as a former health care person, I monitor ERRYTHING to the nth degree -- and if a Doc or NP or whomever dares to argue with me about my own care, well. Tain't pretty that's all. Cause I've found over the last 30 years that I, essentially, have to be my own doc, my own advocate, and my own researcher of all the things. And ditto also too, for other members of my family for whom I've had care responsibility.

Really wish there were some way to hook the naysayers up to some thingamabob machine that would enable me to say. "Here. This is how THAT feels!!"

Grrrrr

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. My only experience with opiates is following dental surgery, and while I appreciated how well they killed pain, they did nothing for my head. That said, I never, ever leave the house without Narcan. I have reversed two overdoses (both fentanyl, but who knows what the fentanyl was affixed to), and kept the victims alive long enough for the paramedics to arrive.

If you have kids going to university or college, equip them with Narcan and make sure they know how to administer it. Yes, there are a number of steps, each one necessary. The Sacklers are merchants of death, who should be buried under the prison in which they belong. Murderers.

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Virgiebeach's avatar

Well done you, Zyx! I also too carry Narcan (both kinds, ie nasal spray and injectable). Literally everywhere I go - even to church, lol!

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Canice's avatar

Walgreens is using an equity firm which uses OmniRetail to help maximize corporate profits. They seriously recommended that Walgreens stop holiday pay for Thanksgiving and Christmas .

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Goonemeritus's avatar

So now we're making it illegal to poison thousands of people with a highly addictive substance that they lied to everyone about?

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

/insert letsnotargueaboutwhokilledwho.gif

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Sarah Ennals's avatar

* She loved the way it made her feel. She went home, bathed her children and cleaned her house.*

Ok, but this is some Rat Park stuff—if the threshold for addiction is “makes you able to do housework after getting home from your paying job,” it’s no wonder so many people are on drugs.

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Rachel Avery's avatar

I've been waiting for a public discussion of how overwork and the stigma against taking sick/disability leave fuels addiction, but so far, not much bubbling up about it.

I'm 100% certain that if my father were 20 years younger, he would have gotten hooked on this shit due to using it as a crutch to power through back and hip injuries.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I am one of those weirdos who just LOVES spiders and these arachnids establishing a veritable webbed apartment complex and comfortably cohabitating inside of that cave thoroughly and entirely fascinates me. Given the opportunity I could sit on a rock just outside of that cave entrance with a pair of magnifying glasses and watch these amazing creatures interact for hours.

Nature is far better than TV, comrades.

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Vic's avatar

Such a shame the gold-digging, adulterous "Dame" Jillian Sackler (nee Gillian Lesley Tully) didn't get to see the fruit of her disgraced husband's awful work.

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Lurking for the dick jokes's avatar

The Fall of the House of Usher miniseries on Netflix is an excellent commentary on the opioid crisis and the excesses of wealth and privilege

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Tecolote's avatar

No state was harder hit by the opioid epidemic that the Sacklers created than West Virginia. Joe Manchin was the Secretary of State, later, the Governor, and then the US Senator from WVA during that time but he did absolutely nothing to thwart the damage that was caused. It should be mentioned that his daughter became the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company while this was going on. Just a reminder of what a completely heartless and useless bastard he has been.

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simpledinosaur's avatar

Truly one of the most blood-curdling stories of our time: a heartless corporation becoming fantastically wealthy by pushing addictive drugs to suffering people.

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Andrew L. Erdman's avatar

"Your reminder, the evil narco-cartel getting Americans like JD Vance’s momma addicted to pain pills are not Venezuelans bringing over fentanyl in drug boats!" Yarp!

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