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- Buy glass with pills
- Throw meaningless paper in the trash
- Remove label from glass
- Use lid as serving size
- Profit?
I always find it weird that in the US they just give you a big ol’ bottle of drugs. In Europe if you buy painkillers you get like 12 individually wrapped tablets.
From the UK, had an operation and got given 10 codeine phosphate 30mg. Then went to the doctor who gave me 120 more. I was then hooked and went through a stage of CWE (Cold water extraction) with over the counter ones. Then the darkweb and eventually Xanax.
That’s pretty irresponsible of them giving you 120. When I was given codeine they point blank refused to give me anything other than a weeks supply, if I needed more after that I had to go back to the hospital to get reassessed.
I agree. In the end I had to get the doctors to put a note on my account that said whatever i said don’t give me opiates.
If I recall when I was prescribed that amount he was going to give me 60 but asked if I paid for my prescription and as I said yes he doubled the dose. I guess to try save me money. Which is ironic cause I spend a fortune on the darkweb.
I’ve got another operation booked soon and I am worried they will prescribe me again.
The UK is becoming Merica lite.
It’s actually getting more difficult in the US.
Opioid painkillers can now only be given at hospitals or prescribed by surgeons or pain specialists. The GP or Urgent Care center can’t do it.
It’s been a real problem for me. I do understand and agree with the rule change on a societal level, but when my back gets truly bad, I really do need an Oxy. Usually, it just takes one pill along with some steroids and anntiinflamatories to start the healing process and allow me to start walking to the toilet again, but to get that one pill, I now have to go to the ER and pay $4,000.
A team of researchers in my country is working on a chronic pain treatment that does away with painkillers for life. They tested on rats and dogs they started trials of humans this year I think. Backed by the government obviously no farmaceutcal put a dime on it afaik.
CWE
The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for hardware and software weaknesses and vulnerabilities. It is sustained by a community project with the goals of understanding flaws in software and hardware and creating automated tools that can be used to identify, fix, and prevent those flaws.[1] The project is sponsored by the office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is operated by The MITRE Corporation,[2] with support from US-CERT and the National Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.[3][4]
man, you take codeine once and suddenly you’re classified as a computer vulnerability. hate it when that happens
Cold water extraction
You also get some medication in bottles in Europe, but pills in blisters are more common.
I don’t think I’ve ever had bottles even prescription drugs have always been in individual wrapped packets.
At one point I was on some pretty strong painkillers and I’m pretty sure they didn’t trust me even with the individually wrapped tablets they were individually boxed, with “Monday Morning”, “Monday Afternoon”, etc written on them.
Really depends on the prescription. I’ve gotten boxes with 120 1000mg ibuprofen powder bags because I needed to be on them long-term.
My meds for my adrenal gland also come in 200 pill bottles (1 a day). But then my POTS heart meds come in 12 pill strips when I need 6 a day.
Sometimes bottles would make more sense. A relative had a heart transplantation and takes a dozen different pills every day. Setting up the weekly pill rationing is crazy. A lot of work because of the blisters and so much waste.
My ADHD meds have always come in a bottle (in the UK), but I guess that’s because I’m supplied a month at a time.
Another fun fact if you have to peel the label back to see the dosage, it’s actually just dealers choice.
if you press a thumbtack all the way through the lid near the edge, it completely negates the “push to turn” child safety–just open it like a regular bottle
I’ll have to remember that one. I’ve just been using a knife to remove the outer shell of the cap.
Why though? A childproof lid isn’t that difficult to open.
Weak hands can be troublesome. I recently had a ligament repair in my hand, and it does make it difficult/painful. It’ll be a few weeks before I have the strength back
LPT: The lids on prescription pill bottles can usually be turned over and used as a cap, removing the child safety aspect. So now I can pop them open with one hand, no need to twist them
Could you not ask the pharmacist to put it in a child-unsafe container instead, in that case?
The containers they give me already have that option, you just flip the lid. I guess I could ask them to flip them for me, but I can still get them open either way… one way is just way easier (aka not child-proof lol)
whatever level of difficulty you’re defining as “not that difficult” – remove that, and now it’s zero.
that’s why
New chubbyemu video coming up.
Big pharma doesn’t want you to know this one simple trick!
Is this a joke?
I don’t get it. Is it just because that would make 1 serve 20 pills or so?
What is equate?
Yes. Yes. Equate is the store brand name for Wal Mart medications. Equate will make equivalent products to Advil, Tylenol, etc but for cheaper.
Equate is the Walmart store brand of medicine
I think equate is artificial sugar
I haven’t laughed this much in a long time, thank you
Huh, no wonder my kidneys are ossifing.
