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You have to understand the context of what you call "the never-allow-pain mantra". The drug warriors had gotten us to the point where you couldn't get treatmen

by gozur88 10y ago

You have to understand the context of what you call "the never-allow-pain mantra". The drug warriors had gotten us to the point where you couldn't get treatment for pain. Doctors were harassed out of prescribing opiates and would give you Tylenol for back surgery. People in hospice were allowed to spend their final days in terrible pain. And now we're heading back in that direction. For some reason we can't seem to stop in the middle somewhere.

mtanski 10y ago
> For some reason we can't seem to stop in the middle somewhere. After observing this country 20+ years I have concluded that extremes rule. Nothing ever ends up done via a measured and calculated approach, always extremes. You can see that in politics, economic distributions, rules and lack of there of (deregulation). It's not just today; I've been reading a fair amount of history and it's like in the DNA of the country.