#narcotics cw

[replicae]

send me " hc + a word ", and i’ll write a headcanon about it regarding my muse. // hc + sleep :)

send me " hc + a word ", and i’ll write a headcanon about it regarding my muse.

Zeno is not a good sleeper. Being infected with the t-virus as he is helps to maintain his body and keep it optimal at all times but the drawbacks make it incredibly hard to settle down for a decent sleep. It's far harder for a B.O.W like him to be truly fatigued what with his body always repairing itself and those heightened senses of his tune into just every noise in the nearby vicinity, rousing him straight back to total alertness as soon as he hears something. With the Connections always pushing him to work, Zeno at best functioned with 2-3 hour light 'naps' a day to wind down before getting ready for the next mission or training session. Later in life when he had a bit more freedom to work outside of headquarters, he managed to extend his sleep by taking certain substances to numb his senses for a while.

[anairbri]

exciting times: about to learn if norco still makes me nauseated af as an adult 👍

[knightinironarmor]

Hey, could you explain the morphine post? I dont think i fully understand it. Would it be bad bc hes an addict and could get addicted to the morphine too? Or does it react differently in an alcoholics system? Sorry I just want to fully understand the angst too!

I googled this very quick for you to see if I could find people explaining it better than me, and here it is. People who struggle(d) with substance abuse are among the patient demographics more likely to go undermedicated for acute pain:

“There are many reasons given for inadequate pain control, including a concern for unwanted side effects (i.e., respiratory depression), the fear of iatrogenic addiction, an inability to assess a patient’s pain, variable perceptions of pain, and stoical beliefs of both the medical staff and patients, leading to the attitude that pain is acceptable. When a patient has a substance abuse problem, either current or past, these factors become even more complicated and the optimal management of acute pain becomes an even bigger challenge.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2703452/

I cant speak for what angle @reioka’s post (https://reioka.tumblr.com/post/167275074880/another-concept-the-avengers-are-in-the-hospital) was going for, specifically. I’ll say that when this comes up in Iron Man comic canon, the doctor on panel assumed that Tony’s anxiety regarding sedation + his alcoholism had to do with the fear of iatrogenic addiction (becoming addicted to narcotics following medical treatment, a fear that is prevalent among people who have struggled with addiction even though it’s been proven unfounded according to the article linked above), though I’m sure that failure to properly communicate his pain levels + his beliefs regarding how much pain is acceptable could also be factors in Tony’s anxiety wrt how alcoholism would affect his pain treatment.

[kirythestitchwitch]

ahaha im starting to feel trippy as hell from that percocet which for the first time in my life im fine with if it just stops this pain oh god oh god on a related note how much lidocaine can I use before something bad happens?

[anneapocalypse]

Otherwise we're sticking with advil, thank you.

[anneapocalypse]

I have held up pretty well on ibuprofen for most of the day but the amount of moving required to leave the in-laws' house and get home and up the stairs required the good stuff and it is kicking in now.

Everything is getting... fuzzy around the edges.

[alexispointy]

i mean it’s, like, heroin that i’m on, and that scares people but i feel better on it now tbh.

i’m really sure now that i wasn’t ready to be clean when i first quit. things in my life were too fucked up, and they still are.

definitely aiming to quit for good someday, but not yet.

[alexispointy]

also in the self-care department, i gotta get more opioids or just switch to heroin for a while cause my mind and emotions are too fucked to function without some serious chemical numbing.