“Seventy percent of suicides have uncontrollable physical pain as a factor.”
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Where does she get this figure. That’s truly awful if true and should be flogged as often as possible when the issue of pain control and painkiller prescription is brought up.
Damn those rednecks for giving Oxycontin a bad name.
Ditto that! Here's a thread for ya:
My daughter (only 21) has been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. My sister also has it. I have a herniated disk and arthritis in my cervical spine. That statistic scares the be-jeezel out of me.
Statistics are here:
http://www.restministries.org/invisibleillness/statistics.htm
Specifically:
Various studies have reported that physical illness or uncontrollable physical pain are major factors in up to 70% of suicides;
Mackenzie TB, Popkin MK: “Suicide in the medical patient.”. Intl J Psych in Med 17:3-22, 1987