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dropdeadfred, re warnings re medications. When Ventolin first appeared i remember a warning on the package went something like .. 'long-term use can result in instant death.' I remember it clearly because i was at the time i was a little freaked about it.

Salbutamol, also known as albuterol and marketed as Ventolin among other brand names,[1] is a medication that opens up the medium and large airways in the lungs.[6] It is a short-acting ß2 adrenergic receptor agonist which works by causing relaxation of airway smooth muscle.[6] It is used to treat asthma, including asthma attacks, exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).[6] It may also be used to treat high blood potassium levels.[7] Salbutamol is usually used with an inhaler or nebulizer, but it is also available in a pill, liquid, and intravenous solution.[6][8] Onset of action of the inhaled version is typically within 15 minutes and lasts for two to six hours.[6]

Common side effects include shakiness, headache, fast heart rate, dizziness, and feeling anxious.[6] Serious side effects may include worsening bronchospasm, irregular heartbeat, and low blood potassium levels.[6] It can be used during pregnancy and breastfeeding, but safety is not entirely clear.[6][9]

Salbutamol was patented in 1966 in Britain and became commercially available in the UK in 1969.[10][11] It was approved for medical use in the United States in 1982.[6] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.[12] Salbutamol is available as a generic medication.[6] In 2018, it was the seventh most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 60 million prescriptions.[13][14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salbutamol

As i child i would wake up EVERY morning after about 4 hours sleep. Then go downstairs, take part of a tablet, first 1/4 then for a time 1/2, and read a book until it worked so i could breath easily enough again to be able to go back to bed and to sleep sleep. Sometimes i was sick of staying up so one day took a full tablet and, i remember clearly, it scared the shit out of me. My heart was beating faster than i'd ever experienced before. Never did that again.

So i have been on drugs since that very early age. Who knows but that fact may have led to a psychological propensity to, as an adult, experiment with new things.

At about 26 after hearing the addictiveness debate on nicotine (i was up to 100/d for a time) versus heroin for so long, what could i do but research to learn the answer myself. Only snorted it, never shot it. After about 6 months of use heroin was very easy to stop. Unlike, for me, nicotine.

All i wanted to say was that tThe 'instant death' (instantaneous lung collapse) asthma puffers haven't killed me after some 50 years of using them.