It’s the drug warriors dream come true: literally torture disabled people.
If they did this (withheld pain medications) with POWs, it would be a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Of course, it’s more important to make a statement than effectively treat people.
I pray every politician and bureaucrat involved in this charade gets a chronic illness and spends their lives in intractable, unending pain. Sadistic bastards every one.
THERE IS NO OPIOD CRISIS. ITS 100% FENTANYL, AND ITS NOT BEING PRESCRIBED THROUGH LEGAL MEANS.
Political desk riding results in very very few pain inducing or injurious situations.
“It’s the drug warriors dream come true: literally torture disabled people.”
THIS ^^^ !
“THERE IS NO OPIOD CRISIS. ITS 100% FENTANYL, AND ITS NOT BEING PRESCRIBED THROUGH LEGAL MEANS.”
Aaaaaaaaaaannnd ^ THIS ^ !
This is the major, MAJOR issue I have (as you apparently do) with the “opioid crisis”.
Do some people prescribed the drug get addicted and occasionally overdose? Of course, and the number may be significant.
But the majority of people overdosing on these things are recreational users, and it really burns me that the people all up in arms about this, instead of concentrating on the people who abuse them and how to deal with them, instead make the medical community and the drug manufacturers the villain and attack them instead.
The end result is what we see here: People who actually need them, disabled veterans with injuries, people with cancer, etc. have a harder time getting them, have to pay more for them, have to drive further to get them, have to jump through more hoops to get them, and may have to make do with drugs that don’t relieve pain as well because they aren’t as addictive.
That is why this whole situation makes me angry. I have a degree of sympathy for addicts who need help and I think we should, but this is the end result of this outrage over an “opiod epidemic” that treats everyone using opioids the same way.
I’ll second the motion that these scumbags making all these rules about taking Pain Meds away from those that actually need them need to be in PAIN 24/7/365(6), unable to sleep, play with Grandchildren, cook dinner safely, unlock and open a door, pickup dropped change from the floor, thread a needle and then sew something up and many other things most take for granted.
But most of all I want them to SUFFER CONSTANTLY !!! ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT !!!
And be told to just “go take some aspirin” or put alternating heat and cold on the affected area.
I agree Gail.