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<blockquote data-quote="mhphoto" data-source="post: 3267292" data-attributes="member: 6288"><p>My problem with all of this is that people are lumping legitimate pain patients in with addicts. People are lumping together death statistics from illegal and legal opioids trying to prove a point about abuse. Living with chronic pain sucks, I know because I've been dealing with it for over a decade now. I think most people here don't understand the stress that comes with wondering if they're going to try and cut your dose down when you go in for a refill. And the frustration that you feel when people like our former AG go on some macho ******** "just take some aspirin" rant. </p><p></p><p>I've lost family members to heroin addiction. I have other family members who have been in pain management for 30 years with zero issues. There's more than one side to consider here, and lives are affected by poor and biased news reports and peoples' own misconceptions about opioids. I think it's pretty clear that the pendulum swung too far into the realm of cavalier script writing in the 90s, but it's swinging right back the other way right now, and ruining the lives of chronic pain patients. Getting into the mindset that anyone who seeks to ease their pain is an addict is ridiculous. Opioids, while incredibly dangerous when misused and abused, have saved the lives of millions over the years who would've either committed suicide from not having adequate relief, drowned themselves in liquor to numb their pain, or otherwise led an entirely truncated existence, having been abandoned to wallow in their own pain.</p><p></p><p>That said, I'm fine with big pharma losing this one. They willingly misled docs and patients, and made an awful lot of money in the process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mhphoto, post: 3267292, member: 6288"] My problem with all of this is that people are lumping legitimate pain patients in with addicts. People are lumping together death statistics from illegal and legal opioids trying to prove a point about abuse. Living with chronic pain sucks, I know because I've been dealing with it for over a decade now. I think most people here don't understand the stress that comes with wondering if they're going to try and cut your dose down when you go in for a refill. And the frustration that you feel when people like our former AG go on some macho ******** "just take some aspirin" rant. I've lost family members to heroin addiction. I have other family members who have been in pain management for 30 years with zero issues. There's more than one side to consider here, and lives are affected by poor and biased news reports and peoples' own misconceptions about opioids. I think it's pretty clear that the pendulum swung too far into the realm of cavalier script writing in the 90s, but it's swinging right back the other way right now, and ruining the lives of chronic pain patients. Getting into the mindset that anyone who seeks to ease their pain is an addict is ridiculous. Opioids, while incredibly dangerous when misused and abused, have saved the lives of millions over the years who would've either committed suicide from not having adequate relief, drowned themselves in liquor to numb their pain, or otherwise led an entirely truncated existence, having been abandoned to wallow in their own pain. That said, I'm fine with big pharma losing this one. They willingly misled docs and patients, and made an awful lot of money in the process. [/QUOTE]
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