Blaming MDs for Opioid Crisis Is Malarkey

Townhall.com ^ | November 1, 2017 | Betsy McCaughey

[Chickensoup]

Hemorrhoid surgery is one of the most painful of surgeries and not only is there the pain of surgery, there is the pain of the first movement or two.

[mplc51]

Forcing people to feed their addictions from illegal, unregulated sources always, always results in more crime and more death!

YOU made my point!!

[tuffydoodle]

I believe it.

[sarge83]

One of the reasons I got off them ASAP.

[Mastador1]

NOT ALL MAIL ORDER SUPPLIERS ARE UNREGULATED OR ILLEGAL!

You totally ignored my point about hysterical prohibitions!

[billphx]

Understood.... This is actually preventing people with legitimate chronic pain from getting effective treatment (speaking from personal experience)

[Bob434]

exactly- yes- it’s true that the pain won’t kill a person- but my goodness- it DOES lessen the quality of life for many people who have to endure Chronic or even temporary extreme pain- I know a person who just had surgery where they could not sit up and had to lay back- for 3 weeks straight- they were able to get pain meds- but really had to beg for them- then they started to get better- stopped the pain meds- but 2 weeks later something went wrong- and had to have more surgery- back to laying down for another 2 weeks- (they could get up but had to lay on couch or in recliner-) There was no way tylenol was going to help that person- and they needed the pain meds for a good 3 weeks- but liberals are pushing for only a 3 day supply when someone leaves hospital- that is just ridiculous- If you coulda seen the pain that person went through trying to maneuver around for 3 weeks- it was awful- and then the next 2 weeks- egads-

There used to be signs in doctor’s offices that said “Are you in pain? Tell us, we have effective medicines that can help” - After this witch hunt is over- those signs will read “In pain? Too damn bad- take a tylenol, not that it will help much”