[ladyinred]

I am speaking from the standpoint of education about pain killers. There is a difference between a "junkie" and a person who has been taking pain meds for an extended amount of time. People with chronic pain do not take the meds to get high sir, they don't even make you high. Do some research and you will understand the difference. I never said or thought you were a prude, and I sure didn't mean to imply that.

[witnesstothefall]

education about pain killers

That's where you tell people what to think, not how to think, right?

The sad fact is that many chronic pain sufferers become junkies. Another sad fact is that many junkies claim chronic pain to obtain drugs and justify their addictions.

A final sad fact is that there are infinite combinations within individuals of varying degress of physical and/or spiritual pain accompanied by varying legal/illegal abuse of legal/illegal substances.

But a junkie is as a junkie does.