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Those who have to deal with serious pain (like me) can easily run afoul of the drug warriors, as can any decent doctor who TREATS pain as the serious problem it is.

There's another hot button for me. I have a buddy who has to take strong narcotic pain medication. He's 100% disabled due to a destroyed disk and a dehydrated disk in his back. Two of his vertebrae are "bone on bone". His physician limits his pain medication to keep him from "getting addicted", even though he's had the condition for over 10 years. He has NO other tendency to drug abuse (doesn't drink because of the medication) other than caffeine and tobacco, hardly world class drug threats.

The real reason he can't get the medication is because his doctor knows that if he started actually treating the full extent of the pain with the proper level of medication, he could lose his license and go to jail because of the WOD.

So my buddy suffers, as does anyone who has true chronic pain. I understand where you're coming from, trust me.