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    22 hours ago

    It’s crazy how they give that shit out once you pass a certain age.

    And yet if you have cancer or a serious, chronic or otherwise illness/injury you it’s like “have you tried paracetamol”?

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      14 hours ago

      They’ll refill it forever too, even if it was supposed to just be a recovery aid. Seen more than one elder become addicted.

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        7 hours ago

        I just don’t get it. My FIL likely died of an overdose because his GP, who knew he was a hardcore alcoholic (since he treated him for withdrawals in the hospital multiple times), kept prescribing him fistfuls of Xanax.

        Like, my dude, you stop getting Medicare money if you kill your patients.

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      19 hours ago

      Lol yeah, it’s like by that point the Government are like “fuck it, you aint got long left either way, do wat evz bro”