If you have no sympathy for an addict, then I highly doubt you have actually dealt with one.
The oppiod crisis in particular is mainly due to the fact, doctors and drug companies INTENTIONALLY turned these people into addicts. These aren’t kids who experiment and get beyond their ability to control, these are people prescribed some of the most addictive substances known by doctors... and the drug companies flat out lied about the addiction risks... Then when the prescriptions run out, they fall back on street drugs if they aren’t wealthy enough to buy a doctor to write them more scripts...
Having no sympathy for these people speaks to the condition of your heart, not theirs.
Why aren’t we seeing serious drug education about how opiates work, and how to use them for pain and not become addicted? Why aren’t we teaching kids and adults alike the utter dangers - avoidable- in opiate use?
The patients that I have seen are in their 20s-30s and were not addicted by physicians . These people are just , and I hate to say it, losers who were never going to go far in life.
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The oppiod crisis in particular is mainly due to the fact, doctors and drug companies INTENTIONALLY turned these people into addicts. These aren’t kids who experiment and get beyond their ability to control, these are people prescribed some of the most addictive substances known by doctors... and the drug companies flat out lied about the addiction risks... Then when the prescriptions run out, they fall back on street drugs if they aren’t wealthy enough to buy a doctor to write them more scripts...
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Intentionally? No culpability to the ambulance chasers\judges? The iron fist of GOVT?
IMO, it’s a re-take on the govt 1-2, like the home lending: “Lend more to the ‘poor’ or we’ll do bad things to you”. Banks lend to the ‘poor’, ‘poor’ can’t/won’t pay back, govt goes “Look! Predator lending. Now we’ll have to do XYZ to ‘fix’ the problem”
Lather, rinse, repeat.
‘Poor’ (favored class) get what they don’t deserve
Banks get the shaft coming/going
Govt gets bigger\more involved in life
Rights\Freedom\etc. suffer
As for ‘education’, when did that become anyone’s problem but the PATIENT/user??
Does nobody have any responsibility anymore? Maybe 2 brain-cells to rub together and go “Doc says these are for pain. They MAY be more than I need. Maybe I should try 1/4 or 1/2 and see what it does”
Or, heaven forbid, *ring* “Hey doc, I followed the directions, but, you know, after the single dose, I don’t feel right/I didn’t like what it did to me. Anything we can do?”
But, ya, maybe we do need an ‘act of Congress’ to give We the People another ‘one fits all *solution*’....all the others have worked SO well. ‘Cuz nothing solves ‘problems’ more than a bill from the brain-trust within D.C., right? Hint: THEY too get kick-backs, I mean ‘contributions’ *wink*. Let alone WRITE their own bill, or read, or debate, or follow...
I'm as addictive as they come. I was a daily drunk for more than 20 years. Tobacco user as well.
But I'm not completely stupid, nor uninformed.
I recently had a shoulder replaced, my arm and body hurt, the doctors gave me one Oxy pill on the way out the door, and a full bottle to take at home.
I put the oxy aside, took a half-dozen Tylenol a day for a few days, soon had it down to four, then to two.
Every story is different. But I could just as fairly say to you: Blaming the doctor or the pharmaceuticals speaks to the condition of your brain, not theirs.