[DeSoto]

Releif of pain is probably the strongest component of life force, after birth. The fact that the government has yet to manage this, and has been sidetracked by the moronic "war on drugs", is a black mark on society (IMO).

Well said.

A number of years ago when my father-in-law was enduring his last days of terminal cancer, we tried and tried to get his doctor to prescribe enough painkillers to keep him comfortable. Even with the pleadings of family, Hospice, and with the iron-clad prognosis of being terminal, the doctor was reluctant to prescribe enough morphine and other drugs because he "was afraid that he would become addicted" and that it was on the doctor's records how many painkillers that he had prescribed during that reporting period.

I would never allow an animal to suffer with the pain that my f-i-l had to suffer with because of idiotic rules, regulations, and bureaucracy.

[Mama Shawna]

You are so right on. I would go to the street to find painkillers for my loved ones. Who gives a rats if they get addicted two week before they die? I would doctor shop, fake muscle strains, whatever. I watched my hubbys parents go through HELL before they died because of this crap. My mom has fibromyalgia, and she says sometimes the pain is so great she'd rather put a bullett to her head. Luckily she has a permanent prescription for codeine (finally got a Doctor to listen to her after almost 60 years of being told it was all in her head), and gets some relief with that, but not total. Pain management should not be controlled by the feds.

Mama