Drink herbal tea instead of opiates

[cally]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany-vicodin.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region


After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea

[hlthe2b]

1. Yup.. More Americans need to read this. n/t

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Americans' attitude toward pain and healing cannot change without a change in attitude toward work.

Tea and rest is an appropriate treatment post-hyst when you have ample leave time and your boss isn't emailing you questions about the work you've left. People take painkillers so they can keep working.

[cally]

3. Yes

And parents tend to not have enough support to rest. Middle aged white women are a large consumer of opiates. Expectations to work, take care of children, and aging parents as well as dealing with age related illness. Often too much to handle in this culture.

[enough]

4. Good point. NT

[mucifer]

5. If tea can help some, that's great. Just don't make it harder for us to get opiates

for my pediatric hospice patients. For the most part from what I have seen cannabis based medications don't help them much. It is another tool in the tool box. But, it's not a miracle. That said for some and not all kids with seizures it can help significantly.

[ghostsinthemachine]

6. After my surgery for cancer (esophageal)

The painkillers they gave me were less than what I take daily. And ran out rather quickly.