He’s blaming someone else for not having enough self control to say “No thanks Doc- the pain won’t kill me. Fact is that I’m an addictive personality and might become addicted if i take them”?
I have for years told my doctor that i don’t like pills, don’t want them and if at all possible don’t prescribe them to me.
i have enough frigging problems in life..
Yes . . . people need to have personal responsibility, but the medical / pharmaceutical industry seems to have NO ethics anymore - it’s all about money. It’s all about hooking people on every drug they can. It’s all about bringing people back to pay more - and more - and more.
Watch Fox News lately (and probably every other news channel)? All you get is a CONSTANT stream of commercials INTENT on hooking every American on every possible drug. Ohh! Heavens! My C-PAP device isn’t clean (whatever THAT is!). Uh, oh... I better make that doctor’s appointment because I need to be tested for some disease I don’t show any signs of having - but, you know, you can’t be too safe! And don’t get me started on the garbage they peddle for “erectile dysfunction,” miracle diets and other tabloid-style crap. All of it should be banned, IMHO - ALL OF IT. If you did, I bet you’d see a noticeable drop of people hooked on this crap because people would wise up and learn they can live just fine without a constant stream of drugs going into their bodies.
[He’s blaming someone else for not having enough self control to say “No thanks Doc- the pain won’t kill me. Fact is that I’m an addictive personality and might become addicted if i take them”?]
A lot of people don’t associate pain pills with the same addictive properties as say alcohol.
Also, there are some people who don’t know they have a propensity to addiction until they’re already hooked.
I think he’s taking responsibility for the first bout of addiction, but saying that he did not know that the pain pills a doctor gave him in 2015 were opiates like heroin is and that he could become re-addicted.
Hard to believe he wouldn’t know that was a risk.
But also hard to believe a doctor doesn’t ask a patient, “Are you a recovering drug addict?” in which case, maybe we should stick to aspirin and sucrets, not Oxy.
Inject heroine into a non addictive personality for 30 days, and he would simply walk away and drink water afterwards.
People may very well not know whether they have more of a potential for becoming addicted than others. Also when the pain gets bad enough people are willing to try just about anything so they can get back to a normal life.