Using potent opioids to mask pain from a fractured ankle, allowing continued walking without medical evaluation and casting, is unsafe. — Whalespan
Using potent opioids to mask pain from a fractured ankle, allowing continued walking without medical evaluation and casting, is unsafe.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“But to your point, you don't want to, for instance, let's imagine you have a fractured ankle. You don't want to be reaching for a very potent opioid just so that you can continue walking on a fractured ankle that you haven't gotten evaluated by a clinician and perhaps casted. That wouldn't be safe.”
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