earthstellar: orangesky-cybertron:“overdose. ”It’s a fact that military doctors do

earthstellar: orangesky-cybertron:“overdose. ”It’s a fact that military doctors don’t care about their health.a imagination about ratchet abusing aspirin in order to deal with its emotional or physical problems (I’m not sure, I think both are possible) . And then he turn around and go back to work like a normal person. I work in healthcare and I gotta say, this is an extremely strong concept and I wanna add to it because I love this a lot:aspirin isn’t a common drug to abuse among healthcare workers, although pain relievers of all kinds as well as sedatives (including occasionally hypnotic sedatives) are among the most often abusedpharmacy talk: heads up I will be discussing drugs and drug abuse below, please skip this if you may be negatively affected by any such discussion, be safe out there <3 he’d probably be dosing himself with lorazepam or a similar benzodiazepine equivalent; back when methaqualone was more commonly available/still being produced on the mass pharma market, this one was extremely often abused as it’s a hypnotic sedative that could really put you in a sort of calm steady state once you were acclimated to it you might know methaqualone by the brand name Quaalude; this got so commonly abused that they legitimately stopped producing the most common brand name version of this drug altogether, despite how profitable it was, which should tell you something about how prolific this drug became lorazepam doesn’t remain in the body as long as diazepam does, so assuming there are Cybertronian equivalents to these pharmaceuticals, he’d likely go for something that was relatively strong in small doses and short-acting like lorazepam the thing with lorazepam and similar drugs is that you build up a tolerance extremely quickly, which is why most doctors/pharmacists try to limit as much as possible the total daily dosage and overall use period of drugs of this type diazepam is incredibly effective and you also build up a natural tolerance to it extremely quickly, which can be bad for a lot of reasons, so this one is less often prescribed these days and in fact some places outright do not issue any prescriptions longer than seven days for diazepam even when indicated by severe generalised anxiety (you might know this drug by the brand name Valium) pharmacy note: anything ending in -pam is usually a benzo, so lorazepam, diazepam, temazepam, nitrazepam, etc. all fall under this category– there are tons of these, and they are usually picked based on the individual patient’s situation/medical history/etc. as well as the more unique properties of each drug, as there are differences between each although they may seem subtleI think he’d be careful about it, and reasonable about it, but ultimately Ratchet would still be misusing any such drug– I can see him having a genuine clinical case for perhaps getting a prescription and sorting that out with Velocity or First Aid, but I also think Ratchet would very much struggle to speak with them about any concerns/difficulties he may be having, for a lot of reasons. so he may very well go the self-medicating route. evidence in canon that supports this concept: elderly people and pharmacokinetics + pharmacodynamics I think Ratchet would go for a relatively short-acting non-hypnotic sedative, simply because this would make it easy as possible for him to do his job of note though, is that elderly people are at much higher risk of side-effects with these types of pharmaceuticals, and it may be the case that by dosing himself before the start of every shift with whatever Cybertronian equivalent there might be, it could be harming him in less obvious ways……maybe even contributing to his gradual spark burn-out, as some notable side-effects more common in older people include fine motor skill/mobility difficulties, increased agitation or anxiety, depression, and they are more likely to develop daytime sedation effects (essentially a physical/mental state of heavier sedation than intended) and that actually checks out based on how we see Ratchet increasingly struggling with his hands and general physical state of health, we see him often agitated/depressive, and I believe that at least once he mentions in canon that he is “not as fast as he used to be” or something along those lines there’s a decent case to be made that he could very well be dosing himself with something, and that something might be compounding his physical and mental health concerns from age/trauma. anyway it’s 4 AM holy shit I’m gonna go make breakfast lmao  -- source link

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