100% in agreement and it's clear you understand this topic most personally. Now if only we could get the media to get off our backs about "anyone" who's taking the hard stuff is nothing more than a glorified drug user. I'd love them to switch places with us for just one day and I'll bet they'd look at medications such as morphine in a whole different light.
Meanwhile we have to be kinder to doctors. They really do have the Fed's breathing down their backs more and more and so unless they don't want to be a doctor anymore, they have to be more careful than ever about who they're writing out these scripts too. Sorry, but when there's the profitability in it that can amount to thousands of dollars a month, all doctors have the right to ask if they're caring for pain or if they're just helping the patient have a better standard of living. A lot of the reasons we're in this mess is because of drug abusers like it or not. Of course if it was me, I'd just legalize the stuff and let the stupid stay stupid. At least it would solve the black market problems and stop the pimps from selling their wares on street corners. I'll always believe we can't legalize morality, so why do we keep trying? Meanwhile the consequences are that a whole lot of people in severe pain do suffer because of doctors who are just to scared they'll loose everything by issuing out drugs to the wrong patient.
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Originally Posted by Smoke_666
GOM=God's Own Medicine. That's what the docs called morphine when it was first used, and I find it fits today for most all of the opiods. I look at the 'scare' potential of these meds as simpleminded. If the worst side effect I can expect to see is physical addiction, well, so what? I'll have this nightmare for life, so wehat's the big deal? Living life without the painkillers would result in a very short pain filled couple of months. I simply could not take the pain, period. Any doc I've been to that came out with the "I don't prescribe opiates because they are addictive" line showed their complete lack of compassion as well as a general lack of what I would consider qualifications to be a physician, ie prescribe the safest med first. Opiates are nearly all safer than neurontin, et al.
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