Comments by "Jake Johnson" (@ElectronFieldPulse) on "Drug-Dependent Infants Detox at Tenn. NICU" video.

  1. If you don't mind me asking, what effects do you think are linked to it?
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  2.  @Zenthropa7  - Methadone is a teratogen. Any drug with crosses the placenta and has adverse effects is.
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  3.  @balckbettystack  - Opioids aren't a good option for chronic pain, I wish we had better options.
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  4.  @jonesnewyork7702  - Many people have told you this, but it most certainly is a disease. I am a biochemist, and it has all the biological markers of a disease. It alters the anatomical and physiological processes of the brain, causing malignancies and leaving you in a diseased state.
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  5. I mean, that's not true, are you saying the bone marrow cells had opioids in them?
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  6.  @c.a.greene8395  - I think I made my point poorly, as I agree with everything that you have said. Opioids do indeed have profound effects on the anatomical and physiological make up of the addict. And, as you mentioned without saying the word, epigenetics is involved which causes future children to be at risk for many different malignancies. I have a bachelors in biochemistry, and I used to listen to a lot of different professors, including ones who studied fentanyl. Interested fact, fentanyl binds so strongly to the mu opioid receptor that it actually pulls the receptor protein out of the the cell membrane. This is why tolerance sky rockets so quick with it. All this to say, my question was if opioids aurally are sequestered into every cell type in the body. After perusing through the blood, being metabolized by the liver, and excreted, I would imagine there are some systems which might evade having an opioid influx, lymphocytes perhaps? So lymph nodes? I honestly don't know, I've been out of school for 15 years and I work as a chemist now, so I was genuinely asking. I wasn't minimizing the dangers of opoids, I agree with you.
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  7.  @joe_isom  - Yes, that comment annoyed me. Kind of like Requiem For A Dream where their pupils dilate every time they do some smack. That annoyed me so much.
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  8.  @chaseleejohnson2436  - This is such a good idea, but it causes some people to have a moral panic.
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  9.  @leoniigrant7537  - I was addicted to opioids, went through hell, and the only way I was able to get clean was to stop blaming a single person for my problems. I took ownership of all them, and it allowed me to grow and mature. Addiction is a selfish disease that causes people to arrest in their cognitive development. Getting clean allows a person to act normally, not needing to focus their entire life on getting another fix in four hours.
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  10.  @elizabethcampbell5428  - You are misunderstanding the situation. She was following medical advice to stay on methadone.
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