Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?
deranger@sh.itjust.works 12 hours agoI never said addiction was harmless. However, your claim that opiate addiction causes neurological issues due to oxygen deprivation outside of an acute overdose is unfounded. If this was the case, chronic opiate users (in the strictly clinical sense) would be given supplemental oxygen.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
I never claimed that it happens outside of an acute overdose. I said it can happen, which is factually true. I also said there’s no way to guarantee an addict won’t take a large enough dose to deprive their brain of oxygen. It happens. Pretending it doesn’t is harmful. The cause of death for most opioid overdoses is literally cardiac arrest.
In the clinical sense, doses are administered to stay within safe limits, so supplemental oxygen is not needed.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Respiratory arrest.