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Just Chat! / Re: "woefully undertreated" chronic pain
« on: 06/12/2013 17:38:04 »Whose life is it?
IMHO every adult should be allowed to shoot, sniff or swallow any damn thing he likes.
If the pain gets too bad, the law won't object to your jumping off a bridge or blowing your brains out, so why should anyone object to selfmedication that prolongs your useful life?
Exactly. CliffordK are you really saying that people who live every single day with chronic pain, don't even deserve to decide for themselves? I do believe if a person can get by without opiates and live happily then they certainly should, but at the same time I'm quite confident that a majority of people with CP do actually deserve and need opiates.
Also, those overdose figures are way, way too high. Guess you didn't realize that when a person happens to die with drugs in their system, it's often ruled as an overdose because it's easier for them to just write it off. I wouldn't be surprised if the real overdose figures were freakin' 1/10th or less of what they actually say it is.
And really, I don't see what irresponsible people overdosing has to do with people in chronic pain who need to responsibly use opiates medicinally anyway.
Isn't it a little arrogant of you to just assume you know enough about chronic pain and opiates to know how many people actually need it? It's easy for doctors and people without the condition to say just "tough it out", it can't be that bad. But really, who is anyone else to decide how much pain I am in and what I can or cannot do about it? My major point here is that chronic pain patients should have the choice to decide for themselves. We're the ones living it. We're not incapable of thought, most of us know about our conditions better than our own (mostly) incompetent doctors do. We know when we're starting to break and absolutely need relief.
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