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If you have terminal cancer, it's not a big deal to get hooked on opiates as your life is basically over anyways and will not last long.
by hycaria 9y ago
If you have terminal cancer, it's not a big deal to get hooked on opiates as your life is basically over anyways and will not last long.
- gambiting 9y agoWhich is exactly my point. By making it more difficult to obtain painkillers, because "pain is natural", people who are terminal and need them to maintain at least a bit of humanity at the end of their lives might find it difficult to get the pain management they need. It's already an issue where anything opioid-based is extremely strictly regulated(for example - in Egypt, it's super difficult for doctors to administer morphine, which means that people who really need it might have to go without appropriate painkillers).