Aren’t street drugs being laced with fentanyl? That’s why users are overdosing. A hospital setting is very different. If nurses started mixing in fentanyl when they administered Tylenol those patients would be dying too.

Funny story: my (then) 15 year old daughter had major surgery and when she woke up, still very groggy and incoherent, they told her they were putting Fentanyl in her IV for the pain. Her eyes got really wide and she yelled “whoa whoa whoa, isn’t that the stuff that kills you?!” It was so ingrained in her as a teenager she almost refused it. We will laugh about her drunk sounding voice yelling “whoa!”

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many other meds that can relieve pain and aren’t as dangerous.

Profits, of course.

Fentanyl is the generic, doofus.
You really think pharma companies are making bank off a generic drug that street gangs can produce?

Please name a non addictive painkiller that works for serious pain.

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many other meds that can relieve pain and aren’t as dangerous.

True. They don’t care about their patients who get addicted. Not their problem.

Sure. Like morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, codeine, and all sorts of other opiods. None of THEM are problematic.

You are a nonfunctional moron. Please don't reproduce. You'll kill your kids.

Fentanyl is amazing. My fav pain med.

Anonymous wrote:There are so many other meds that can relieve pain and aren’t as dangerous.

True. They don’t care about their patients who get addicted. Not their problem.

Water is dangerous, too. Yet we keep insisting on using it.

What kind of stupid question is this OP?

It's a pain reliever. A medication like any other that has side effects if abused.

What do you know that the rest of the world doesn't pray tell?

Man, when I had kidney stones, fentynal was the only thing that gave me relief so yes, we need it for pain management in a hospital.

Anonymous wrote:Good question.

If knives are so dangerous, why do they use THEM in hospitals??

You can kill someone with insulin as well. This may be the dumbest post started in a very long time. Not this poster, I'm referring to the OP

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Anonymous wrote:I was about to have a minor medical procedure and discovered that they were going to use Fentanyl to "put me under." By coincidence, the newspaper that morning had a front page article (above the fold) about overdoses in the DMV. When I raised this issue with the anesthesiologist, I got a nasty earful about how I was not to question the doctor's expertise. Thanks, Doc.

Fentanyl isn't used to "put you under"

but you are wrong. It's a great component of anesthesia, as are its derivatives

Yup. Except, i’d qualify “great”. It’s a sadly large component of anesthesia, and we should probably move from it.

What is sad about it? And: what are your credentials such that I should care what your proposal is?

I am open to the idea that they exist.

Anonymous wrote:Does Ziggy from 3rd Avenue administer the fentanyl in hospitals?

OMG I love you. LMAO

Anonymous wrote:There are so many other meds that can relieve pain and aren’t as dangerous.

You've clearly never known the pain of cancer that has mets to the bone.

Anonymous wrote:There are so many other meds that can relieve pain and aren’t as dangerous.

It's cheaper than morphine/heroin and less laws against it, plus more profits.

Might be less contraindicatory also.

Anonymous wrote:There are so many other meds that can relieve pain and aren’t as dangerous.

Profits, of course.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was about to have a minor medical procedure and discovered that they were going to use Fentanyl to "put me under." By coincidence, the newspaper that morning had a front page article (above the fold) about overdoses in the DMV. When I raised this issue with the anesthesiologist, I got a nasty earful about how I was not to question the doctor's expertise. Thanks, Doc.

Fentanyl isn't used to "put you under"

but you are wrong. It's a great component of anesthesia, as are its derivatives

Yup. Except, i’d qualify “great”. It’s a sadly large component of anesthesia, and we should probably move from it.