[wizzler]

emotional pain is best not dealt with by using drugs. Make life changes and deal with it.

Making "life changes" can include injesting certain collections of molecules that relieve pain. That is a way to "deal with" and cure emotional pain.

Your "just suck it up" stance is the same puritanical mindset that has led to this insane "war on drugs," which is actually a war against people in pain.

[Monty22]

That's actually the farthest thing from 'dealing' with anything there is. It's just a temporary coverup that'll lead to addiction and much more pain down the line.

[Tall_Texan]

Your "just suck it up" stance is the same puritanical mindset that has led to this insane "war on drugs," which is actually a war against people in pain.

DELUSION ALERT!!

Saying every druggie is someone "in pain" is like saying every theif is someone "in poverty". You don't fix the problem by legalizing the crime.

[volchef]

I'm sorry wizzler, but I simply disagree with you on this. As a person who has experienced horrible amounts of pain and have been to doctor after doctor for help and was dismissed and told there was nothing they could do for me because they couldn't find the source causing my pain, I had to basically "suck it up." It came to the point in my life where I was faced with the decision of commiting suicide or making myself better on my own.....without help from drugs. I wouldn't even know where to get them if I wanted them and the Drs. weren't prescribing. I did research, enlightened myself about different diagnosises (?) and came to the conclusion that I, like many other women, suffer from Fibromyalgia. I've joined a gym, work out on a regular basis, have cut out alcohol and am living as healthy a lifestyle as possible. While I still face pain on a daily basis, I've learned to deal with it because my being well effects everyone around me including my beautiful children who are so happy to have their mommy "back."

I don't believe that everyone can "magically" make their pain go away and that people do need help controlling pain......(believe me if I was prescribed pain killers I would have taken them), but because the drugs are so addictive it leads people on a downward spiral that many don't escape. The laws are deterents because there are some of us who would have been tempted to go down that road if the opportunity arose and because it wasn't readily available we're better off. At least i know that I am.