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Surely this is something each individual should decide for themselves. Why should you or anyone else decide that I cannot use morphine and friends?
by MichaelGG 11y ago
Surely this is something each individual should decide for themselves. Why should you or anyone else decide that I cannot use morphine and friends?
- x0x0 11y agoBecause society has to clean up the mess, financially and in terms of dealing with addiction via medicine and/or incarceration. Particularly when opiates are bulk resold to addicts.
- DanBC 11y agoIf you want to manage your long term pain morphine and other opiates are probably the wrong choice. The patient will develop a tolerance to the meds; requiring higher and higher doses; and eventually they'll be taking dangerously high levels of those meds and their pain will not be controlled, and so now they have an opiate addiction and they still have the pain.
- MichaelGG 11y agoWhat's dangerously high? All accounts and experiences I've seen show people can adapt to very high doses without extra danger. It'd be lethal to an opiate naive person, but not particularly dangerous to the patient. And with a bit of effort, depending on the underlying problem, this ever-increasing usage isn't a given. That is, is possible to avoid escalating while still reaping much of the benefit.
- DanBC 11y agoBut you're just arguing for careful and managed use of opiates, which is what I'm asking for. We know that opiates are widely misused by clinicians and we know that this misuse does not help treat the pain and causes considerable other problems.