Addiction to Nurofen/Solpadene

I've never understood people who carry these/paracetemol around with them and just take a couple at the slightest sign of a headache/period pain girls in school I remember used to be obsessive about it. I think they thought carrying paracetemol around with them made them cool. Seriously.

I totally agree. Surely it can't be healthy taking so many pain killers. What's wrong with a little pain anyway?

It's Nurofen and Solpadeine Plus that people become addicted to, rather than ordinary Nurofen or Solpadeine. On their own, Nurofen and Solpadeine contain ibuprofen and paracetamol respectively which have low addiction ratings. However the Plus forms contain codeine, a controlled substance and an opiate like morphine and heroin. The codeine is what people get addicted to.

No one go out and neck a load of pills containing codiene though! they make them with such a small amount of codiene per pill that you'd be ill from the paracetamol if you ate the amount required to get a codeine buzz..

Who are you to judge when they can take medication? I mean, you have no idea how much pain some people are in before they take something for it. Yes, there are people who take them for hardly anything but a lot of people do use them properly, like myself. I carry something with me at all times because I know what it's like to be in so much pain during my period, I can't walk, I can't move, I can't do everyday things. Though medication only gave me a small amount of relief sometimes I needed it because I missed a lot of school due to being so ill that I couldn't go and it was all to do with my period. I'm now on the pill which makes things slightly better but I still carry stuff on me because I can still get days where I can't move because of my period. I'm not using it for nothing, am I? Yes, some people take them for absolutely no reason, they get a small twinge and suddenly they are raiding their bag for medication but this isn't always the case, some people use them correctly and I would like to highlight that point.

I'm far from addicted, I take something only if I have terrible period pain or a terrible headache. I try to avoid pills at all costs because I hate them and i'll put off taking them but that usually makes me feel worse. I take them when I need to, no more than that and I use them properly. Not everyone is the same, and if you are one of those people who take them over anything, i'm sure it is very easy to get addicted to something but not everyone is in the same boat, thankfully.

That wasn't a personal attack, it's just that growing up, I had a real reason to take something for my period pain. Some people really do need to take something, not everyone takes it just because they can. Only the people who are taking the pill can judge how much they need it, none of us can argue otherwise. What seems nothing to us, might seem something to them.