Victims? CP is a great big unanswered question. Rarely brought to the surface where we talk about it, I think because of an ancient taboo in our society that when one suffers pain, they should just shut-up and take it.
Well, I didn't let that happen to me. If relief comes in a pill, I'm taking it, no matter what the side effects are. When you get to the point where CP and PD interupts your life completely, you NEED something to dull the living hell that constant pain and stifness can be. Thank God we still have access to opiates. Not all doctors are willing to stick their necks out for us CP-PDer's (there are a lot of people who fake pain to get opiates to make money from their sale. Since this criminal diversion has reached a high proportions of the legal need for opiates, doctors find prescribing them an ever increasing hassle) and give us the neccessary tools to deal with pain. For the severely advanced, PWP, the time left is best lived as comfortably as possible. cs