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Step 1. Folks in society can no longer tolerate even a little discomfort. Step 2. These folks go to the doctor demanding pain relief. The doctor no longer both

by steve19 11y ago

Step 1. Folks in society can no longer tolerate even a little discomfort. Step 2. These folks go to the doctor demanding pain relief. The doctor no longer bothers telling them to rest up and take some tylenol. Instead she hands out Oxy. Step 3. Patient will never want to give up the Oxy (at best), or craves more as the drugs effects lessen over time. An addict is created. Step 4. Patient looks to the blackmarket for supply of Oxy or alternatives. You can solve the problem by either re-educating society to toughen up (eliminate step 1) or tell doctors to stop handing out opiates like candy (eliminate step 2). Neither is going to happen. This has been going on since before opium was made illegal. There are much better ways to deal with physical pain, the problem is they require a lot of effort ... and a pill is just an Rx away. This works for short periods of pain (such as immediately after surgery) but is very bad for chronic long term pain.

jnbiche 11y ago
> This works for short periods of pain (such as immediately after surgery) but is very bad for chronic long term pain. Do you have severe, chronic long-term pain?* Just curious on what basis you are making this remark. I can tell you that since the DEA crackdown, no one is handing our narcotic painkillers for any condition that could be reasonably treated with rest and tylenol. Doctors value their licenses and freedom far too much, and so meticulously document their narcotic treatments, and give them only to patients with severe pain (and even then, they undertreat). I've had two relatives die from cancer from in the past 5 years, who were terminal and over 70, and yet who were cruelly denied narcotic pain relief until their last week because doctors are scared shitless about getting arrested by the DEA. Far from what you're claiming (which was maybe the case with certain doctors a decade ago), doctors now undertreat most patients. * "Bad back" and "aching knee" do not count. I mean things like cancer and severe nerve diseases. Edit: By the way, I didn't downvote you.
aianus 11y ago
Step 4 is the only part that hurts anyone. They could keep doing the legal oxy forever with minimal health problems to themselves and zero effect to you or me.
- DanBC 11y ago
  No, that's not true. People with long term pain often report tolerance to their opioid pain releif.

by steve19 11y ago

jnbiche 11y ago

> This works for short periods of pain (such as immediately after surgery) but is very bad for chronic long term pain. Do you have severe, chronic long-term pain?* Just curious on what basis you are making this remark. I can tell you that since the DEA crackdown, no one is handing our narcotic painkillers for any condition that could be reasonably treated with rest and tylenol. Doctors value their licenses and freedom far too much, and so meticulously document their narcotic treatments, and give them only to patients with severe pain (and even then, they undertreat). I've had two relatives die from cancer from in the past 5 years, who were terminal and over 70, and yet who were cruelly denied narcotic pain relief until their last week because doctors are scared shitless about getting arrested by the DEA. Far from what you're claiming (which was maybe the case with certain doctors a decade ago), doctors now undertreat most patients. * "Bad back" and "aching knee" do not count. I mean things like cancer and severe nerve diseases. Edit: By the way, I didn't downvote you.

aianus 11y ago

Step 4 is the only part that hurts anyone. They could keep doing the legal oxy forever with minimal health problems to themselves and zero effect to you or me.

DanBC 11y ago
No, that's not true. People with long term pain often report tolerance to their opioid pain releif.