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Yeah, look, I staggered into the ER with a shattered collar-bone and a shitload of missing skin, and 10 mg of oxy had me feeling pretty much FINE while a nurse took a coarse sponge to scrub the asphalt out of my wounds.

Overprescribed, yes. Comparable to OTC? Absolutely fucking not. Claiming that ibuprofen is as effective as diluadid or morphine is completely disingenuous.

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Your anecdote is irrelevant - the study only tested extremity pain, a collar bone is not an extremity.

They only tested drug combinations as well, not a single medication.

I presume, from your comment, you also weren't given the 400mg of ibuprofen and 1,000mg of acetaminophen combination first and then an opioid only because that wasn't enough pain relief.

And while we are swapping anecdotes, I was given hydrocodone for an acute extremity injury (leg) and the only noticeable thing it did for me was make me feel really, really nauseous. If it did help with the pain it was hard to tell because of the nausea.

Acute pain from injury? Give me opioids. Post-surgical pain while in hospital? Opioids. Released from hospital? Opioids probably shouldn't be prescribed.

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