2023-08-19 22:52:00
The issue is not that it is a saint of my devotion, but I have thought it necessary.
Actually, the only saint for whom I have any respect and admiration is my patron saint. And only if it were the case that everything written and described about him was true; which I doubt.
But I have decided to write about Medicine, because I have seen a series of six chapters called ‘Lethal medicine’ (for once, the Anglo-Saxon and Spanish titles coincide, which is appreciated) and it has made me remember old and sweet memories of youth and adulthood.
So I said to myself: Let’s get to it! Who knows? It is still useful for those who like to read it.
This new channels – or whatever they are called – was not my idea, but rather that of two Wise Men (Isabel and Dolores) who always bring me gifts, even if I don’t ask them, because I always behave very well.
The series goes about how the exorbitant prescription and taking of some medications can become less than an early tenor rooster crows, in a true epidemic in certain countries called ‘first world’.
The series describes the situation in the United States – where I was able to suck it in its cruelest manifestation -, but if you have thought that Spain is escaping… ‘nanay del peluquín’.
The thing goes like this: a pharmaceutical laboratory develops a drug that became a revolution in the treatment of pain. Of any kind of pain.
The active product was Oxicodona. It is an opioid analgesic with pure agonist action on Mu and Kappa receptors. Structurally and pharmacologically closely related to other pure Mu opioid receptor agonists such as Morphine and Codeine and about ten times more potent than Heroin. It produces analgesia, euphoria, relaxation (in other words, the coolest thing for junkies)… And worst of all, a respiratory depression that, in high doses, inevitably produces irreversible death.
The series begins with testimonials from parents whose sons and daughters have died because of oxycodone, its use and – above all – its abuse, and they request that it stop manufacturing it due to the heartbreaking side effects it produces.
The laboratories in question carry out an impeccable market study.
The “medical visitors” – I have always called them that, now they have a much more pompous name – are the vast majority of ‘aunts who take bread, dip it, dip it again and whatever is necessary’. With a power of conviction, in the motels or hotels that are within range, what else would the perverse Pablo de Tarso want.
And, of course, as is human and normal, the doctors – especially in the first instance – well prescribe it in abundance with the consequent increase in money both for the producing laboratory and for the distinguished visitors (there are also males, eh?) who convince recipe book in exchange for a few minutes of pleasure and champagne.
They – I write about them because only hotties appear in the series – go to percentage of sales and, of course, the simplest car they drive is a Porche 917 K, between 16 and 18 million dollars. Imagine the millions earned by the manufacturers of oxycodone, which I would not care as long as the drug did not have undesirable effects as critical as death, sudden death.
The prescribing physicians thought that the only side effects were referred to as stubborn constipation that was remedied with a Sen herb, or some Fortasec pills (in Spain) which, by the way, are horribly dosed.
Apparently, they did not realize that any drug, even non-neuroleptics, produces two types of inexorable consequences, which I am going to separate into points, perhaps more didactic:
Tolerance. Basically, and in Roman Paladin, it means that, to achieve the same effect, more and more doses are needed.
Dependence. Basically and in the same paladin as before, he comes to say that since the necessary dose is not available, a thousand pairs of fried eggs are taken.
And that’s how collateral damage comes, namely: death threats with, sometimes, conquest of the threat to doctors if they refuse to prescribe it; robberies and threats to pharmacies, several… and everything that the monkey takes to carry out. Taking an overdose of the product (tolerance), cardio-respiratory depression that catches where it catches the subject or holds it. And another stiff for the statistics.
That is happening absolutely every day in any medium-developed country. The doctors make their august, the sales representatives – remember that in the series there are only aunts who take away the hiccups and more – and the producing laboratories, why count: many billions of dollars a month…! Monthly!
The end of the series is more or less happy: a visitor regrets a little and the laboratories hit a financial host that trembles the basto.
I don’t want to spoil it, but it’s worth watching.
You know: Lethal Medicine”. What I don’t remember is the channel where they put it.
If it weren’t for the fact that I have experienced such situations first hand and because I consider the information necessary, no way would I have written about Medicine.
believe me!
PS— The series does not take into account orfidal, nor rohypnol, nor hundreds of products with a central action (central nervous system) that are around here sometimes necessary and other times – many – for advantageous second-hand sales. you know who.
A server has not received medical sales representatives for more than thirty years. I know they made me fall off a donkey eating parsley leaves, but I don’t care. Trust me again! @mundiario
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