The ways things are going, this will be used as another excuse by the government to make people in pain suffer even more.
” this will be used as another excuse by the government to make people in pain suffer even more”
That’s exactly right.
I was treated for an injury in the French medical system. Pain management was job #1 for them. When I came back to the U.S., the surgeons were mostly indifferent to my pain and said “just work through it”.
Maybe we should ask the government lawyers to sign an affadavit giving up any drug based pain management when they get injured or grow old. Wonder how long that would last before they come screaming (literally) back to reality.
PS: for the idiots who make snarky remarks about French docs, I can tell you that the orthopedic work done on me generated nothing but praise from the best U.S. docs about the work that was done on me.
Yep, wealthy and connected people will find a legal end around. Regular people will suffer.
Whether chronic pain sufferer’s lives are made better or pot lovers get to stay high whenever they wish, who gets to choose, pro-legalized pot champs, of course!
I have some old, expired Percocet and some oxycodone. I just can’t imagine tossing them. There’s not a doubt in my mind that should the time come that I need those drugs, they will not be prescribed for me.
Recently, I had a tooth extracted, and I incurred a bone fracture during the extraction. I was advised to take some Tylenol. I got home and took one of those Percocets. I love it. I struggle with sleep difficulties, but Percocet puts me right to sleep. I’m fully aware that I could easily become addicted to them for that sweet sleep inducing capacity. That’s why I limit myself to 1.
But it’s heart-rending to consider that people in immense pain might be denied relief.