>>The first step should be to BAN All Opioids from ALL Public Employee’s and Government Retiree’s Nationwide, make it a FELONY to even Try to receive them.
Then we can talk about restricting the citizenry<<
So much for a quality of life for people suffering from cancers, muscular dystrophy and other painful debilitating ailments.
If a crooked doctor padding his pockets by prescribing to the general public, thereby feeding addictions...yea, I can see poppin the guy.
But to have this dogmatic approach to opioids is absolute lunacy.
My dad and also my FnL both suffered from enormously painful conditions and w/o these types of pain killing treatments, they were reduced from strong manly men to whimpering children.
Horrible to watch what they went through. The difference in their quality of life was significant when they would have opioids on board as opposed to not.
So..no, I’m 110% against this broad brush ban on opioids. Incidentally, in case folks are not aware, the U.S. government has the largest stockpile of opiates in the world...stored at non other than Fort Knox.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930916&slug=1721425
Thank you for writing that, it’s exactly my experience. My family member followed all the rules, suffered the indignity of piss tests to prove it, and believed in their doctors.
It was heartbreaking and infuriating to watch as they suffered while being told by people in white coats it’s all For Your Own Good.
But trust us! And wear a mask!