Posted on 04/11/2018 3:34:00 PM PDT by bgill
Oh, they say they’ll do it when it’s time for hospice (IOW, when he decides to just lie down and die, when the man is struggling through immense pain NOW to make sure I’ll be OK, which I wish he wouldn’t do, but he’s old-school in that you express your love in action, not words).. He doesn’t want to give up yet, for my sake, and this just makes it tougher for him to fight. But all around me I know of young people going to clinics and getting very strong pain drugs for no reason that I can see they should need them, not to mention I know how they take them, and it’s for “recreation”. Some have the nerve to try to get them from my husband-my husband, who would never take drugs, not even aspirin, his whole life, and now he’s dying, and these people who would eligible to be posted up on this “monument” (unlike my husband), for their self-inflicted addiction, are the same people who are the reason that the drs can’t give my husband a sleeping pill unless he takes a lower strength drug. Just one more instance of the unfairness, like taking guns from the law-abiding, when criminals get and use them to murder people every day.
Is it me, or is the “opioid crisis” is a plan to legalize pot?
Thank you.
Might as well make the highest profile stink possible. Write as many newspaper editors as you can reach.
22,000 a year and 40,000 a year from heroin laced with fentanyl coming right across our wide open southern border, but F the wall and let’s give half a billion a year to Planned baby murder instead because nothing is more important that giving free abortions.
Might as well catch the street drugs first, if catching any.
HHS came up with the idea of using patient satisfaction surveys to grade medical care some years ago. They studied things like patient, "returns" after hospital stays, pain reduction/control, and tracking morbidity and mortality.
Doctors knew that managing pain kept patients from returning and controlling pain kept patients from giving bad surveys. Pain management became a very successful specialty but it came at a price. Mortality was reduced by not taking on more challenging cases. Let the "big city" hospitals operate on the hard patients and we can keep our statistics looking good.
Government stepped in to "help" and got this result (so now they will step in again, to help.) In order to reduce abuse we must blame doctors and big pharma who were responding to government pressure. Never reduce government help.
I’m so sorry. Prayers for you both.
As you know it most certainly is not, which is why the Constitution sanctions military for threats to our life and liberty from people outside our borders, and courts to deal with threats to life and liberty from people within our borders.
But the Constitution gives the feds NO authority to regulate food and drugs. That including opiods is a states' issue.
Quit supporting sweeping unlimited unconstitutional federal power. The GREATEST threat to America is our mostly unconstitutional $4 trillion federal government.
“A LOT of people get hooked on this crap following accidents etc.”
Why are people in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan having so many accidents?
Those are the states with highest number of opioid addiction and deaths.
I am very sorry .
Prayers to your husband , you and the entire family .
God bless you and your husband.
Why do losers have to suck the life out of the innocent and truly suffering?
I can understand your massive frustration.
Actually, the kind of function she was looking for was “exponential”, the inverse of log. That is the closest fit to the graph. Logs start fast then get slower. Exp. starts slowly then gets much faster, much like that graph.
At first, it is a problem of bad choices, if the person starts using recreationally. Unfortunately, the drugs physically damage the brain in such a way that it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to resist the allure of the drug. That is addiction.
I agree. “Man does not live by bread alone . . . “ We are spiritual beings and need spiritual sustenance on a regular basis, without which we feel a huge void and hunger in our lives for the transcendental. Alcohol and drug abuse are just symptoms of an effort to fill our lives with meaning and a feeling of power, or to forget things we want to forget. (I do believe there are people who legitimately got addicted to pain pills because of their severe and chronic pain and then politics suddenly cut off their supply. But it seems these people are the exception rather than the rule.)
When people try to find meaning without God, it is a doomed effort. Institutions, governments, even friends and family cannot replace the relationship with the eternal that people instinctively crave.
Can we have a memorial for alcoholics?
How about smokers?
How about one for those that ate too many donuts.
Yes, you’re right. It’s what I get - befuddled - for imagining I remembered something from college statistics!
Hey! Leave Chris Christie out of this.
Our son had bi-polar disorder. It probably manifested when he was about 15 although he was always a bit odd. By the time he was about 16 he was self medicating to feel normal. When he was finally diagnosed in his late 20s they put him on meds. It seemed to help but by then he had severe psocatic skin disease and arthritis, perhaps caused by the meds. He still drank off and on. He went in for surgery to correct a severe deviated septum and developed c-dif and then fibromyalgia. Because of his C-dif his bi-polar meds no longer worked. A co-worker got him hooked on duster and he died last July from and accidental overdose. So all the super moral postings on this thread really p*$$ me off. You have no idea what people go through.
stop taking drugs, period...so simple....
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