I thinkthe implication is that Dina Jedi-mind-tricked her way into a hospital or pharmacy with her people-don’t-notice-me powers. Or possibly stole them from another student, hopefully someone just selling them instead of needing them.
It’s not magic if you can explain it with science? Richards is a known magic skeptic in a universe where magic definitely exists. He’s also recently become scientist supreme. A guy who basically does magic but it’s actually science.
“magic” is a 5-letter word for any science that’s not yet understood :p
Laura
Arthur C. Clarke:
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
–”Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination”, Profiles of the Future (1962). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
Pappenheimer
He also appears to have said that he didn’t believe in astrology because, as a Sagittarius, he’s naturally skeptical.
Steamweed
That is totally a Clarke thing.
Sharizard
Magic seems to be definitely different than science in the Marvel universe.
There is an issue of Fantastic Four where Doom captures Reed Richards and traps him in a simple cell sealed with a very simple magic spell (‘that a four year old could learn’ according to Doom). Reed has to abandon any attempts at understanding and be spoon-fed by a weakened astral projection of Doctor Strange how to perform the counter spell. In the end he still can’t quite do it because he can’t comprehend how it works. It’s only when he essentially gives up trying to understand the magic and admit his inability to handle it (literally calling himself an idiot) that the magic works for him.
Maybe it’s just me, but I imagine when Dina’s prescribed a drug, she takes exactly the amount the doctor tells her too, and has nothing leftover when she’s done.
She seems like she’d be very diligent about that sort of thing.
3oranges
That’s definitely the right idea for antibiotics. I’m not sure it would be recommended for opioids.
Yumi
Yeah, I definitely do that when I need antibiotics, but when I get prescribed pain killers, I try to take as little as I can manage with. Especially with Oxycontin– hated being on that stuff.
Envy
Yep, when I got my wisdom teeth taken out, I stopped taking the opiate pain killers early because I was sick of sleeping like 16 hours a day and being constipated.
Rose by Any other Name
After a certain surgery, I was excited to try my first opioid, Vicodin.
It was not a pleasant experience. Rather than anything fun, it made me jittery and unable to sleep – which is exactly the opposite of what you want after surgery.
Mr D
The only painkillers I ever take unprompted by doctors are Ibuprofen.
S.R.
Other way ’round. If you’re given painkillers to recover from a surgery, they’re reasonably likely to give you more than you’ll necessarily need, so you might wind up with an implied prompt of “take this many painkillers” and actually not need to take that many.
Lexi
When it comes to pain killers, it’s “Take them as needed”. If that’s one every 6 hours for 2 weeks, that’s probably gonna use up your supply. But I think most people will have leftovers, and I’m not taking painkillers designed for surgery recovery because I stubbed my toe 5 months later
butting
Analgesics often have “as required” on the label. And Dina’s definitely the sort to decide that if she’s not inconvenienced by pain then they’re not required, so…
Laura
I could see Dina saying, as Spock said: “Pain is a thing of the mind.” And reasoning her way out of needing pain meds prescibed after a dental procedure. She would want her reason and capacity for perception impaired. Post-surgical recovery is a fascinating opportunity for scientific observation of the biological processes…
That was … breathtaking.
*hands you Reltzik’s crown of punishment*
ResRam
Opioid anestesia is usually prescribed in a “take as the pain dictates” with an upper cap (max daily dosage) and a warning to take them as shortly as the development of the pain allows.
At least in the acute cases where patients are left to take them themselves. And no long-term chronic pain therapy plan has been worked out. Which – if I remember my cllinical training correctly, is the large majority of medical opiate use.
Is that a thing? I didnt get painkillers for either of my two wisdom teeth we’ve removed, just instructions to use some OTC ones when i got home, and with the second one they had to saw into the jawbone and pull it out along with the roots that held it like a barnacle
TerribleTransit
It’s definitely a thing (more often than it should be: see the whole opioid epidemic and chronic overprescription by medical professionals that contributed to it) but not always. I’m pretty sure I was just given high-dose ibuprofen.
Casi
and then there’s me, who had two major surgeries on my ankles. I had to get them fused and have 4 screws in each now, but because this was after the shift in the epidemic to underprescribing for fear of losing their license, i had to stick with extra strength excedrin for most of my recovery, and literally could not sleep for 2 weeks after the first surgery because of the pain, and the nerve block failing (i woke up in recovery *screaming* in pain apparently)
I think that would actually get cops called on her. Pharmacies are locked up ridiculously tight.
nadamás
Dina is more powerful haven’t you been paying attention
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Dina is powerful *because* no one pays attention.
Needfuldoer
She puts all her points in DEX, not STR.
ResRam
And the opiate cases are usually locked safes with strict access control (personal codes, only few people with acess) and evry in- and output stringently documented by law. Not rarely secured by camera, too.
The are after all by far the most likely targets of pharmacy theft.
227 thoughts on “Rawdogging”
NGPZ
Super Full Moon AND Dina being a badass gangsta to help her sick friend?
This night is lit yo! ^-^ <3
Lightweight Baybee
it’s soooo pretty out tn 🙂
imma play pokemon under the stars rn B)
anon
time for dina to do a drug dealing side hustle 8D
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Dina Does a Deal!
Gangler
Dina’s got connections!
Barf Ninjason
I thinkthe implication is that Dina Jedi-mind-tricked her way into a hospital or pharmacy with her people-don’t-notice-me powers. Or possibly stole them from another student, hopefully someone just selling them instead of needing them.
Bryy
I think it has been established by now that Dina is gay and does crimes.
ElderCat
Hee hee heeeee.
Pocky
y’see amber, its not magic, its sleight of hand.
Gangler
“Not Tricks, Michael. Illusions!”
Sirksome
Don’t trust Asher..…supplied kitchen doctors!
Dot
It’s a real Reed Richards situation with Dina and magic
Clif
You mean it’s stretching things?
Sirksome
It’s not magic if you can explain it with science? Richards is a known magic skeptic in a universe where magic definitely exists. He’s also recently become scientist supreme. A guy who basically does magic but it’s actually science.
NGPZ
“magic” is a 5-letter word for any science that’s not yet understood :p
Laura
Arthur C. Clarke:
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
–”Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination”, Profiles of the Future (1962).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
Pappenheimer
He also appears to have said that he didn’t believe in astrology because, as a Sagittarius, he’s naturally skeptical.
Steamweed
That is totally a Clarke thing.
Sharizard
Magic seems to be definitely different than science in the Marvel universe.
There is an issue of Fantastic Four where Doom captures Reed Richards and traps him in a simple cell sealed with a very simple magic spell (‘that a four year old could learn’ according to Doom). Reed has to abandon any attempts at understanding and be spoon-fed by a weakened astral projection of Doctor Strange how to perform the counter spell. In the end he still can’t quite do it because he can’t comprehend how it works. It’s only when he essentially gives up trying to understand the magic and admit his inability to handle it (literally calling himself an idiot) that the magic works for him.
(Issue 500 ‘Unthinkable’ by Mark Waid)
Freezer
“Unthinkable”, AKA “Mark Waid REALLY Does Not Understand Victor Von Doom.”
DocHarleen
Dina’s the real superhero!
3oranges
Dina’s a heroine but hopefully none of the pills are.
Animedingo
Ah I see shes going into pharmacology
Bittersweet
Omg Dina no whoever you yoinked those from probably needs them
Bittersweet
(I know it’s probably leftover pills from having wisdom teeth removed)
Sirksome
Is that Dina lore? She’s had her wisdom teeth removed?
Thag Simmons
Pretty sure it’s just a guess about a mundane reason she might have leftover painkillers.
Jon
Who said they were her wisdom teeth?
Needfuldoer
Maybe they were leftover Moopsy bait.
Gangler
Maybe it’s just me, but I imagine when Dina’s prescribed a drug, she takes exactly the amount the doctor tells her too, and has nothing leftover when she’s done.
She seems like she’d be very diligent about that sort of thing.
3oranges
That’s definitely the right idea for antibiotics. I’m not sure it would be recommended for opioids.
Yumi
Yeah, I definitely do that when I need antibiotics, but when I get prescribed pain killers, I try to take as little as I can manage with. Especially with Oxycontin– hated being on that stuff.
Envy
Yep, when I got my wisdom teeth taken out, I stopped taking the opiate pain killers early because I was sick of sleeping like 16 hours a day and being constipated.
Rose by Any other Name
After a certain surgery, I was excited to try my first opioid, Vicodin.
It was not a pleasant experience. Rather than anything fun, it made me jittery and unable to sleep – which is exactly the opposite of what you want after surgery.
Mr D
The only painkillers I ever take unprompted by doctors are Ibuprofen.
S.R.
Other way ’round. If you’re given painkillers to recover from a surgery, they’re reasonably likely to give you more than you’ll necessarily need, so you might wind up with an implied prompt of “take this many painkillers” and actually not need to take that many.
Lexi
When it comes to pain killers, it’s “Take them as needed”. If that’s one every 6 hours for 2 weeks, that’s probably gonna use up your supply. But I think most people will have leftovers, and I’m not taking painkillers designed for surgery recovery because I stubbed my toe 5 months later
butting
Analgesics often have “as required” on the label. And Dina’s definitely the sort to decide that if she’s not inconvenienced by pain then they’re not required, so…
Laura
I could see Dina saying, as Spock said: “Pain is a thing of the mind.” And reasoning her way out of needing pain meds prescibed after a dental procedure. She would want her reason and capacity for perception impaired. Post-surgical recovery is a fascinating opportunity for scientific observation of the biological processes…
Laura
Would *not* want to be impaired, I mean…
Olofa
So she can…transcend dental medication?
Laura
OOOOHHH!!! x-D x-6
tyersome
That was … breathtaking.
*hands you Reltzik’s crown of punishment*
ResRam
Opioid anestesia is usually prescribed in a “take as the pain dictates” with an upper cap (max daily dosage) and a warning to take them as shortly as the development of the pain allows.
At least in the acute cases where patients are left to take them themselves. And no long-term chronic pain therapy plan has been worked out. Which – if I remember my cllinical training correctly, is the large majority of medical opiate use.
Nymphie
Is that a thing? I didnt get painkillers for either of my two wisdom teeth we’ve removed, just instructions to use some OTC ones when i got home, and with the second one they had to saw into the jawbone and pull it out along with the roots that held it like a barnacle
TerribleTransit
It’s definitely a thing (more often than it should be: see the whole opioid epidemic and chronic overprescription by medical professionals that contributed to it) but not always. I’m pretty sure I was just given high-dose ibuprofen.
Casi
and then there’s me, who had two major surgeries on my ankles. I had to get them fused and have 4 screws in each now, but because this was after the shift in the epidemic to underprescribing for fear of losing their license, i had to stick with extra strength excedrin for most of my recovery, and literally could not sleep for 2 weeks after the first surgery because of the pain, and the nerve block failing (i woke up in recovery *screaming* in pain apparently)
Taffy
That’s not her problem.
Ray Radlein
She’ll just steal them a replacement from someone else
Gangler
I would assume she offered a fair price to somebody who is in the business of selling these things under the table.
There’s a whole market for that sort of thing.
nadamás
She could also just stole it from a farmacy.
not someone else
I think that would actually get cops called on her. Pharmacies are locked up ridiculously tight.
nadamás
Dina is more powerful haven’t you been paying attention
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Dina is powerful *because* no one pays attention.
Needfuldoer
She puts all her points in DEX, not STR.
ResRam
And the opiate cases are usually locked safes with strict access control (personal codes, only few people with acess) and evry in- and output stringently documented by law. Not rarely secured by camera, too.
The are after all by far the most likely targets of pharmacy theft.
asmodai27
I mean, she made it <a href="https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/tighter/"into a bank vault, so I definitely wouldn’t put it past her!
asmodai27
correct link: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/tighter/
ResRam
fair poin – I had forgotten that.
noisy
Didn’t she get in and out of a bank vault? Pharmacy lockers are easy.
Whirlakitty
Nah, lots of people on the floor have stocks of emergency painkillers in case Ruth defemurs them.
IntangibleMatter
it’s just hammerspace, it’s just hammerspace, it’s just hammerspace
SarahTerra
Hopefully stolen from cops
butting
Cops would have a panic attack and raise a media storm if they so much as touched them, so she’s really doing everyone a favour.
Taffy
Cops have panic attacks over everything though. They’re the most scared organisms on the planet.
Proxiehunter
That would only happen if you told them it was fentanol.
deliverything
Maybe we should try telling them their guns are laced with fentanyl?
butting
Nice. Or even pre-emptively: “Hey dude, is there something on your steering wheel? Does that… look like… fentanyl? Oh hey lookithetime, gottago.”
Taffy
Just look the cop dead in the eye and say “Good luck cuffing me, my entire epidermis is coated in fent and woke mind virus glaze.
butting
annnnnnd then he retreats three paces and empties his magazine in your direction.
Da Boy
Let’s hope it’s not the purest cocaine in the history of the city.
shadowcell
putting the more in morphine ayyyyyyyyyyyy
Dedlok
Flintstone’s Chewable Morphine!