[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.

[gnawbone]

Another sad fact is that many junkies claim chronic pain to obtain drugs

I work in a hospital and you are exactly right. Every Emergency Room in the country keeps a book (or computer database) that has a list of all of the repeat "customers". There is a LARGE number of folks that come in with fake pain problems and they usually ask for a specific drug. Most of them have 4 or 5 different medical "problems" and they just rotate the afflictions as needed.