[MD Expat in PA]

My MIL was addicted to Vicodin at least a dozen years before she entered the nursing home at 89. Most of the occupants were walking pharmacopoeias with some taking a dozen drugs. The overmedication is a modern event. Nursing homes only came into existence in the last 60 years or so.

You are comparing apples to oranges.

You said “I just watched my Mother-in-law die under hospice care a couple of months ago” and now you are saying she was in a nursing home and was addicted to pain meds for a dozen years before even entering the nursing home. So which is it?

Let me be clear that I think that over medicating with opiates nursing home patients or the elderly in to make them compliant is downright evil. Giving a terminally ill and dying person opiates in the last days and hours of their life in order to ease their suffering is not wrong.

[Neoliberalnot]

She was in the home for a little less than 1 year and before that time, lived in a house on the front side of our property for 6 years. She was under hospice care for about 6 weeks. I am not arguing with you, I just don’t feel something is right about making zombies out of so many patients.