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Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going after the people that produce the opoids that patients need, to live a less-painful life? Far more people die annually of alcohol related illnesses, than do opoid overdoses. This is the "crisis" is not a crisis at all. In fact, if you review th…
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yeah and the entire FDA group that allowed this and maybe the pain center doctors who ran pill mills all over the midwest and south? Nah, they are all rich, easier to find a scapegoat, pretend your doing something, and gloat. The life of politics. Maybe declare a war on drugs!
Don't forget the Congress and President that enabled it through legislation. > Maybe declare a war on drugs! Declare a national public health emergency. That'll surely make a dent. "Trump declares opioid epidemic a national public health emergency" http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/donald-trump-opioid-e...
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Spoken like someone who’s never had major surgery or trauma.
Exactly. I know some pretty tough guys. One of which took a gunshot wound and barely needed any recovery time. This same guy got in a car accident that ruined his back. After some surgery, he tried to not use opioid pain killers, but he described it as maddening. It's not the pain that brings you issues, it's the constant dull, aching pains that give your life grief. He started taking prescribed opioids for it. When…