If you are dying of cancer where is the worry you will get addicted, that is the way LIBS think. And all this anti opioid is coming from LIBS who abuse prescription pain drugs and need laws they foist on others they won’t obey. Have you heard of ICC bladder disease? Pain meds are the only control these patients have. BAD SCIENCE like climate change crap is responsible for all the false info on opioid use and OD’s. IF you are going to kill yourself you will use what you find convenient to do the job, like a shotgun in your mouth.
No one has mentioned Lyrica, Neurotin, Cymbalta, Xanax, all extremely ADDICTIVE. Some of the most profitable drugs for Big Pharma and Doctors who get kick backs for scripting them. Lyrica users review, very lousy drug as well as being as addictive as heroin. http://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/lyrica/reviews
And Chronic Pain Patients are not that rare, and age is not a factor. 1.33 Million may be a drop in the population bucket, but that is a heck of a lot of people now being denied help.
I have serve spine degeneration that is genetic, that causes Peripheral Neuropathy in arms, legs and hands, it takes 2 seizure drugs to lower a level 10 pain to a 4. I’d be in a wheel chair with out them. 1 is on the DEA list the other is not, took 9 PN drugs to find 1 that worked. But it takes both to work. And that does not address the Osteoporosis or Osteoarthritis or Gastropresis pain. The side effects from the first 2 drugs are horrendous and can kill. GP there is only diet to lower the pain, eat a piece of fruit and you are in agony for 6 hrs that even a pain pill won’t stop.
Yes many are weak creatures, not all are immoral. My brother drank himself into bad health because he could not cope with our mother’s death, he’d not been prepared to cope with life he dropped dead of a heart attack 2 weeks ago due to his alcoholism, even though he had stopped drinking 9 months ago. My PCP went into deep depression when he lost his mom, and now no longer can practice. I’m stuck with his partner who SUCKS.
My condolences for your brother. Nine months seems a little long for latent alcohol use heart attack. Any man over 50 should be taking magnesium and K2/D3 supplements to avoid critical deficiencies which may cause a heart attack. It was recently discovered that Zithromycin and insufficient magnesium poses a significant risk of heart failure. I had to double my magnesium supplement during recent Zithromycin usage after experiencing chest pain.
Regarding your bone pain have you considered skeletal flourosis? I had that in the late ‘90s affecting an Army LoD back injury and my ability to participate in my VA VOC Rehab. I was in my ‘30s and the VA wanted to admit me to a VA long term care facility aka nursing home. A FReeper recommended Reverse Osmosis drinking water and that was the beginning of my return to health. The VA gave me Midrin/Isometheptine which was great but temporary. Many times I couldn’t get the pills down before the stomach turned from the pain. Using RO water and fasting I was able to identify the foods which had flouride and which didn’t. I went to a restricted diet to reduce the pain, making life tolerable. Prior to that I would have monthly 3-day bouts of extreme pain which would wipe my short-term memory. It was kinda neat in a way coming out of it, rediscovering everything.
It took 2 years to leech the flouride out of my bones. I also added Cetyl Myristoleate to reduce bone and joint pain and increase moblity. Every month there was noticible reduction in pain and improved mobility. It took 8 years of this to reduce my chronic back pain to a 1.
RO water, avoiding flouride and using Cetyl Myristoleate gave me a normal life again. Best of luck.