Posted on 04/04/2009 11:09:11 AM PDT by wagglebee
Exactly. Nobody is stopping the drama queen.
Next we will see the demand that doctors assist in the suicide (AKA murder) of their patients regardless of the phsyicians ethics. Look for such a law in about 5 years.
God bless these Montana dctors.
“Death with dignity” to these people means that you get to fix your hair before you blow your brains out.
most of those dying of oxycontin overdoses are druggies who grind it up to take it.
Those who take huge doses of oxycontin for pain might accidentally lower their respiration rate, but the death would be because they are terminal, often with pneumonia, and the amount needed to stop pain is near the fatal dose.
But in pro death articles, we see people in pain who refuse to “be sedated” and then insist on a huge overdose.
Giving high doses of narcotics at the end of life is what we docs call “terminal sedation”...
ironically, if you relieve the pain, sometimes the people do get better...the sedation relieves the pain but then the sleepyness goes away while the pain control continues, they wake up and figure they’d prefer to live.
Thanks for the info! My friend’s ex-husband was given liquid oxycontin at the ER for a pancreatitis attack. He was dead the next day from what was ruled an accidental overdose (they think maybe he forgot he had a dose and then gave himself another). We don’t believe he had an addiction problem with that. My husband’s step-grandfather was addicted (obtaining legally) and died of an overdose a few months later- I believe he was just popping the pills.
We have heard that there is apparently a trend for druggies to smoke ground up oxycontin these days. I don’t know much about it, but I would guess it’s not that smart of a thing to do.
most of these overdoses are accidental...
sometimes the patient waits until they can’t stand the pain, but the medicine takes awhile to act, so they keep popping more doses.
With ordinary narcotics, it may take an hour...but with the long acting medicines, it may take several hours to fully work, so you see the problem...
and addicts are more prone to pop extra doses trying to get instant relief...
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