[Cicero]

Humm. I wouldn't touch something like that with a 10-foot pole, no matter how much it hurt.

When I was in the hospital after a laparotomy, the doctors shot something into my leg that made me feel like a million dollars and gave me a spectacular night of technicolor dreams. I wouldn't take a second shot of the stuff for anything in the world. I prefer my aches and pains.

[eno_]

I smashed my leg ski racing when I was 12. It hurt so much I started ripping the inside of the ambulance out and throwing the pieces at the driver's head so he would go faster. I didn't know I had it in me to swear like a marine at age 12. They put me under to set the bones and I woke up on morphine. That stuff does work!

But I never had any urge to try it as a recreational drug. I would not "fear" having morphine again, either. I have read studies that conclude that morphine is not as strongly physically addictive as most people think. Although I have not tried all kinds of drugs, I think addiction is mostly a property of the addict, not the drug. People who have a strong tendency toward addiction will huff gasoline to get high. There is no saving them by banning drugs.

[laredo44]

When I was in the hospital after a laparotomy, the doctors shot something into my leg that made me feel like a million dollars and gave me a spectacular night of technicolor dreams.

Laparotomy? You had your lap removed?

LOL. When I was in college, my back was so bad I was scheduled for surgery until I got a second opinion, and a pain killer of some sort. I had some technicolor "daydreams" where basketball videos were appearing on the wall in my room. I thought, "What the heck, I prefer football" and the videos changed. Amazing. I, too, did not bother with a second helping.