While I do not have chronic pain issues, I used to be an emergency caregiver for a friend of mine who literally could not get out of bed without heavy duty pain killers. It always made me less than happy when the doctors didn't want to prescribe the right stuff because "she might become addicted" when she was never going to get better and later died of her condition.
Disclaimer: I've only had painkillers for temporary conditions.
And I was glaaaaaaad to have them. (Thank heaven I'm not allergic to drugs. Yet.)
Overprescribed by whom? I can think of three conditions under which one can get the Good Drugs, and none of those are pleasant, fakable, or amenable to aspirin/acetominaphen.
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:34 pm (UTC)While I do not have chronic pain issues, I used to be an emergency caregiver for a friend of mine who literally could not get out of bed without heavy duty pain killers. It always made me less than happy when the doctors didn't want to prescribe the right stuff because "she might become addicted" when she was never going to get better and later died of her condition.
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:47 pm (UTC)Oh wait, that might be antidepressants. But I think the song is the same.
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 11:40 pm (UTC)And I was glaaaaaaad to have them. (Thank heaven I'm not allergic to drugs. Yet.)
Overprescribed by whom? I can think of three conditions under which one can get the Good Drugs, and none of those are pleasant, fakable, or amenable to aspirin/acetominaphen.
Medical/"moral" bullies.
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Date: 2011-02-02 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 07:43 am (UTC)I think it ties in to something that either Scalzi or Jay Lake pointed out - the Right has a serious lack of empathy / compassion.
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Date: 2011-02-02 04:25 pm (UTC)Clearly the solution is to give them a chronic pain issue of their very own! Who's with me? :D?
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Date: 2011-02-03 06:25 am (UTC)