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my money is on this actually being an effort to get people to use opiate based painkillers for mild to moderate pain, with the view to getting them addicted, which will make the pharmaceutical companies more money
Hadn’t thought about this angle… now we just have to wait on a study by a friend of the admin that states fentanyl is actually good for us.
They pulled Vioxx from the market, when it's cardiovascular safety profile is actually quite similar to other NSAID's and Tylenol. Tylenol can actually have a lot of long-term adverse effects (kidney damage, liver damage, blood pressure, ulcers, cardiovascular risk, and blood cancer), but these drugs are still on the market mostly on the understanding that you'll use them infrequently and at low doses.
Opioids generally don't have any long-term adverse affects, the risks are just addiction, overdose, and unconscious vomiting (not problems once you're successfully got off opioids). If your doctor is competent, fentanyl will indeed be safer for you. There's a reason it's used so commonly in hospitals and other medical settings. Fentanyl even has euphoria more mild than most other opioids, so it's generally not where addiction starts.
Yeah Tylenol is a trash med that would never get approved today, especially not OTC. Unfortunately it's one of the only things they let pregnant women take for pain. We need more research into the opiate drugs, there are atypical mu agonists that actually don't carry as much addiction and overdose risk (gee I wonder why these didn't get discovered when they were looking for a replacement for heroin/morphine), kappa antagonism might be useful in chronic pain, and delta agonists seems promising as well.