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We are all weak. We are a knee injury away from being addicts in most cases.

NOT TRUE
A site on painkiller addiction states that the MAJORITY of preople who have to use pain killers DON'T become addicted

A site on painkiller addiction states that the MAJORITY of people who have to use pain killers DON'T become addicted

This is true.

I think that alcohol users are the most prone to addiction from short time exposure to the drug.

It should be a red flag in some sort of protocol to dispense these meds. Not to deny them, but to follow up much more closely which should be the doctors responsibility.

I believe that education of both Dr. and patient is the key to controlling much of this problem.

217 posted on 10/15/2003 11:51:01 AM PDT by Cold Heat ("It is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other." [Samuel Clemens, on lawyers])

Wow. That's authoritative.

A majority. So how many is that? 50.1%? Is it 99.9%?

and which pain killers? Aspirin? Lidocaine? Hydrocortizone cream (I rub it on my finger until I can't feel it anymore, and I can break the habit.)

That site of yours is pretty damning in terms of the evidence.

My father has had a back injury since he was 34. He can't move without an epideral every six months.

So what does that make Dad? I dunno. Four failed back surgeries, papaya injections, fusion surgery for the vertebra, still in pain.

He AVOIDED Vicodin, OxyC, and any other morphine/heroine lookalike for a reason. He won't go near Codeine.

Why? Advice from other firefighters with similar injuries and similar addictions to prescription meds.

Come back with data.