People dealing with opioid addiction, pain, depression, anxiety and other conditions should see a health professional to get a prescription for FDA-approved treatments, Hays said.
There’s a reason so many people don’t go the approved route, and instead try self medicating. It’s because our healthcare system is run by insurance and pharmaceutical companies, who care only about maximizing profits.
Seeing a health professional in the US means first getting insurance, which can be its own baffling ordeal, then finding an in network doctor, then spending an hour waiting for the doctor so you can spend 5 or 10 minutes with them (probably being lectured), then, assuming they take your mental health concerns seriously, they’ll just prescribe you a drug anyway. If it’s between that and going down to the gas station and getting a bottle of momentary relief, I get why many people choose the gas station elixir.
Addiction and rehab are a crazy example how much the US is different then other first world countries. I battled with addiction ten years ago. I’m not from the US. Went to my doctor and got send to the hospital, spent three weeks in detox, a year in rehab and another year in some assisted living program. So over two years treatment in total. Cost me 30 bucks, I think, as a surcharge for the stay in the hospital and that was that. Even got social Security payments the whole time which enabled me to live a fairly regular life besides beeing in those institutions.
Way better solution then getting some cheap heroin copy from a gas station…
May I ask what country this was in? My wife works in addiction and rehab here in the US and she’s astounded at this. She says at her facility the max for detox is five days, and max rehab is 28 days.
Tianeptine is not included in the federal Controlled Substances Act, which bans or restricts drugs that have no medical use or have a high potential for abuse, such as heroin, LSD and PCP
One of these things is not like the others… 🎵 🎶
I love Lucy
This. This is why people hate the news now. They just parrot things and write clickbait headlines (this article happens to not have one. AP is pretty good with that). Even if you don’t know it consciously like I do you can feel it. And I’ve been noticing that companies phrase their press releases to specifically take advantage of it.
“Gas station heroine” is 100% a clickbait term that nobody uses outside of editorialized garbage like this. Articles like this bury real information about tianeptine deeper under piles of unhelpful fear mongering. Prohibition doesnt work for real people, and this article is just peal-clutchers begging daddy government to expand prohibition.
If gas station heroine is a real thing i 100% tell you alot of people call it that. It would be like getting gas station weed.
The episode of Search Engine about this was good and did some actual journalism.
I forgot all about Erowid. Anyways they say this stuff sucks.
And kratom was gas station heroin too (doesn’t target opioid receptors)
