Pain Killer Research Paper

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overdoesBeing responsible with your pain killers is super important. Just because you have strong pain killers and you don't get addicted doesn't mean someone else won't. If you break your arm and the doctor prescribes a painkiller to help with the pain for the next few days, you need to keep them in a high place or locked up. Esspecialy if you have children or family members with you. Not saying that you can't trust your family. Alot of things can happen and they may not be on purpose. Lets say that your son comes home from football practice and he is tired and hurts. He might just go strait to the medicine cabinet and just grab a bottle and take a pill.

You might be thinking that your kid should have been more careful and read the label, but we all have done it. We all have had a long day and hurt at the end of the day and just go home and grab a bottle and take a pill. From your lack of responsibility and your kids lack of attention he could now be addicted to opioiods. In that situation, one of two things will happen. One the kid will feel really good and he will go find out what it was that he took. or two the kid will just pass out and not know what he put in his system.
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Your broken arm was hurting really bad. you went and took some of Your pain killers to ease the pain. after you finished taking them you left them on the bathroom counter. lets say that your two year old kid wandered into the bathroom and found your pills and ate the entire bottle. You can't blame the two year old for eating the pills. The kid didn't know what it was eating. since the kid is so young it also doesn't know right or wrong. your two year old just ate an entire bottle of opioids because you were

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