if you are dying, you get morphine
That isn’t correct at all. They will tell people, like our family, that my father is moaning because he is trying to talk to us. The man was in agony, in the last year of his life. Not til hospice was he even given an oxycodone.
“If you are dying, you get morphine.”
If you are dying in pain, you _hope_ you get morphine. This is the problem.
Because recreational addiction & abuse is such a huge problem it bleeds over into the legitimate use realm. Consequently people who need “pain management” or whatever may not get it, or in the quantities they need.
Then there’s the problem of pilferage or theft. Hiring low quality individuals as nurses and techs generally means things like the hired help become addicts themselves and start skimming off the medications. Gramps won’t mind a sugar pill in lieu of his prescription meds will he?