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I This Is Enough, Im Tired of This

I am getting so sick of hearing about this Opioid nonsense. When your doctor cuts you off, it does not force you to go out an get heroine. All these changes is make it difficult for patients who need pain medicine do to a real diagnosis and who use their medicine as directed. I am so sick of these idiots who just want to be high and don't care about the law of their own health. If you are On the same size of pain medicine for very long, it does not give you any sort of high. This knee-jerk reaction to morons taking illegal drugs is annoying.

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fazer1k · 56-60, M

Could it be that some of the people who have been cut off became addicted to the prescribed opioids? Withdrawal from opioids requires medical support to be safe and, denied that support, it's not so surprising people would panic and seek alternative sources.

Quietguyinthecorner · M

@fazer1k people refuse to talk to their doctor about possible addictive feelings. Even worse, people refuse to tell their doctors about their addictive type personalities before using a narcotic.

Quietguyinthecorner · M

I am not against people getting help. I am getting tired of people insisting that all people who take it have no control.

fazer1k · 56-60, M

@fazer1k I suspect people taking prescription painkillers won't know they are addicted, necessarily, rather they just seek to relieve pain. Also, how would people necessarily know whether they have an addictive personality, if that hasn't arisen before in which case the information should also be available to doctors?

People who take prescribed pain probably don't have control over their pain, which is presumably why they were prescribed pain killers in the first place. It isn't sensible of people to seek out illegal drugs, of course, but equally can it really be sensible for doctors to prescribe medication then just 'cut patients off' again without (apparently) giving enough consideration to the consequences of doing this for the patient?

If people are abusing the system to get painkillers, just to get high or feed an existing addiction acquired elsewhere, that's a different story, of course.

I'm just trying to consider the possibilities here and wondering whether every case can be as clear cut as your post suggests.

Insomniac100

If you took the time to actually read medical research on opioid addiction you wouldn’t have such a retarded way of thinking.

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Quietguyinthecorner · M

I am a nurse, and know all about this issue. From patients I treat, to families members who chest the system. You don't get to lecture me unless you have a few letters after your name.

Quietguyinthecorner · M

@Insomniac100 Where do you get your research? Off the wall of a methadone clinic?

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