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Originally Posted by tayla4me
I think what is important not to lose sight of, is the fact that these people are not taking Methadone for pain!! Anna Nicole had no pain, she was an addict!!
People with severe chronic opain do not experience euphoria and if you do then you do not need such a strong analgesic.
I think it is unfair that there maybe some people who are missing out on a possible cure for pain because of those who take the drug illicitly.  |
What's important not to lose sight of is that any narcotic taken for any good purpose always has the potential of turning around and biting us in the butt.
Look at the warning on combining methadone with Xanax. How many of us are on benzodiazepines such as Xanax for shooting pain? I know I take 4 of the 0.5 mg. tablets a day. And sometimes with
a lot of everything that's going through me (including Oxycontin) I can be lying down and suddenly feel startled as my body has to effortfully find its next breath.
I don't deny that this stuff is useful for the treatment of pain. I just don't know that simply because we're taking it for a non-recreational purpose, there's somehow an implied warranty that it couldn't have profound interactions with other medications we may be on. So be careful out there.
Mike
p.s. The literature is full of cases of pain patients succumbing to stuff that was taken with the best on intentions, see, e.g., fentanyl patches. It's like the man said when he titled his book, it wasn't "Whether Bad Things Happen to Good People," but "When . . . ."