Discussions at the Dentist
I was at the dentist today, getting a new filling for an old filling that had fallen out. The filling was pretty big, it had fallen out the side of a molar, so I had to be 'numbed' with Novocane (procane). My dentist, Dr. Joseph Sexton , was making sure that I didn't feel anything and somehow we started talking about the opioid addiction epidemic. I mentioned how I had recently watched the HBO Documentary: Warning; This Drug May Kill You I told him one of the stories, about a 14 year old girl who had suffered from kidney stones and was given percocet and then oxycontin. Throughout high school, her younger sister and her started using those drugs to feel good. Eventually they moved on to heroin and the sister died of an overdose. The story follows the girl, who is now a mother herself, as she fights her addiction, vowing not to put her mother through another death. It is a very sad, but true, eye opening documentary. Dr. Joe stated that he was recently at a cons