• Fuzzy-Topic-2684@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Bet there’s many more footballers out there that suffer from some kind of addiction but are reluctant to come forward.

    • Global_Acanthaceae25@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Would be interesting to see when he started. He was so good at Coventry then just shite when he moved. I always assumed it was the pressure of such a big transfer but this makes more sense.

  • champagnecharlie1888@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The headline is name dropping Liverpool in the hope of mentoning a big team gets people interested and clicking on the article

  • OnceIWasYou@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    As much as it is great that he’s come forward, this sensationalist idea that any amount of Tramadol could equate to 6 shots of Heroin is frankly silly.

    Yes, there are opiate comparison charts, they don’t give a direct replication of effects.

  • throwingthisaway6736@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is a tabloid non-story. A tramadol amount equivalent to six “shots” of heroin? Hmmm, seems a bit far fetched. When it comes to opioids, tramadol is as weak is gets. In terms of dosing equivalent, even the most conservative estimates would probably put this at like… 150-200 tablets per day of tramadol to equal that amount of heroin. And no one is going to be smuggling that much tramadol because of how weak (and therefore, not profitable) it is.

    • kevinnoir@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Ya I cant speak on heroin because ive never done it, but that did seem excessive to me. I used it a few years ago when I moved here and my MAX dose was 400mg a day which was fucking LOADS. It was 8 pills a day. So by his math I was doing one “shot” of heroin a day and as much as I dislike tramadol I think thats a massive stretch because at no time at all was I incapacitated or experiencing what I have seen from people that use heroin. Its a dirty fucking drug and coming off of it is a nightmare and I cant even imagine what 2500mg felt like but this is a silly comparison in my opinion.

  • kevinnoir@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    When I moved here from Canada I had to stop my cannabis prescription and the alternative the doc said was tramadol… so fair enough I had used morphine and hydromorphine back home after surgeries… NOPE Tramadol was SO much worse. At the max I was using only 1/8th what this man was and it fucked me up!

    When I wanted off, the doc said “we will have to ween you off and give possibly use methadone” and I was so mad that this dirty ass pain killer was given to me.

    I went to Canada for 6 weeks instead and used, you guessed it, Cannabis to ween off instead of methadone and it made a MASSIVE difference. My doc said while the NHS cant approve of it, I had made the right call and that he was on the side of using cannabis to help ween from opiate dependency.

    There are so many better pain killers than tramadol, its criminal that its still prescribed.

  • Carroadbargecanal@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There was a story about a pro rugby player moving ftom England to France and asking “where’s the Tramadol?” because it was omnipresent in the English game.