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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Combining the overdose the prior week with the blind item about AIDS, I speculate that Prince's fatal overdose is because of his weakened system, not that he was addicted to opiates per se. The doses may have been high but not fatal to someone with a healthy immune system. I think it was just a matter of time until the disease caught up with him.[/quote]

Perhaps. But only addicts take dilaudid and fentanyl. And they buy it on the street or pay a doctor with no ethics for the scrips. Nobody prescribes those drugs; they're administered to addicts in the hospital under observation. [/quote]

This is not true. I was prescribed Dilaudid after surgery (and it is commonly prescribed for post surgical pain). I was also prescribed Fentanyl when it turned out I was allergic to the more commonly prscribed narcotics. Fentanyl is also commonly prescribed for cancer pain. The problem is health care providers started prescribing opiates for non-acute pain and were told the addiction risk for people in actual pain was very low. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case, and many more people legitimately prescribed opiates for pain became addicted. Those whose prscription pain medication supply has dried up (due to tighter controls and a broader understanding of the addiction risk among health care professionals), turn to heroin to feed their addiction. Opiate overdoses now kill more people every year than car accidents. [/quote]

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