Posted on 01/31/2017 12:46:34 PM PST by servo1969
Wow!
So sorry to hear of your loss. Too bad THC isn’t legal in most states. Works good for pain among other health problems, is less expensive, and by itself no overdose deaths. But the pharmaceutical industry lobbies against it.
Had Prager's relative had access to the pain killers he needed without having to face the complications he apparently did in obtaining them, it appears from Prager's account that it is more likely that his relative would not have chosen to take his life.
Respectfully, while I am sorry for your loss, Oxycontin, like any other drug product approved by FDA for marketing, is safe and effective when prescribed as used, as labeled.
FReegards!
Thank you for posting this. A close family friend died of an opioid addiction. She had suffered a severe neck injury in a car accident. She had multiple surgeries, but was left with chronic pain. For five years, her physicians prescribed opioids to relieve her pain, but cut her off once they realized she’d become addicted. Her life really spiraled out of control after that. She started buying oxy, or something like oxy, off the street. She could no longer maintain her job as a bank manager, and was fired. She was a full-time junkie for the next few years, losing her home, her car, much of her hearing, and several teeth. She moved in with her mother, and died of an overdose on her 33rd birthday.
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His age is irrelevent.
It could have happened at any age, and I suspect is more likely among younger, less experienced people.
Medical malpractice rules supreme in surgery.
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It’s called knowing your patient...sadly, the system today takes more and more time away from the doctor/patient relationship due to the endless bureaucratic paperwork. Yes, KNOW your patient.
Totally different circumstances. Hopefully you will never experience constant excruciating pain and be denied any relief. Drugs that are given t0 deal with pain management may not seem necessary to you, but they indeed are when certain situations call for them.
It has been so long since the concept of redemptive suffering has been taught from the pulpit that it can almost be regarded as a lost concept.
I have little sympathy for someone who gets themselves addicted to recreational drugs, however, if they decide they want help, I’m all in.
On the other had, I have a huge amount of sympathy for those who develop an addiction to prescription medications for pain.
In a case like this guy, I say give him whatever he wants. (after all other means have failed of course)
I agree!
That’s quite a story. Blessings to you too, and I hope the Lord’s grace is with you to comfort you daily.
(we all need a little grace from time to time when life is tough & painful. It’s said what the article’s subject had to go through)
God does have mercy. Even for those who take there own lives.
I was raised Catholic. It wasn’t until adulthood that I began to actually read the Bible beyond the snippets we’d get at Mass. One of the things I was surprised to learn was not in it is the phrase “God never gives you more than you can handle.”
That phrase isn’t in there because sometimes he does. I would never post as you did and basically say that “any true Catholic Christian” would just tough it out and not even consider the option. Life is a very different journey for each of us, and I would never presume to judge someone who was driven over the edge. You haven’t walked in his shoes or my shoes and I haven’t walked in yours.
better yet buy gutter guards so no one has to clean the gutters.
The Father KNOWS our heart. Suicide is not unforgivable as a sin. What IS unforgivable is knowing the Truth, accepting Salvation, then denying Christ when you are asked to Witness. In the Bible, that is the only unforgivable sin I have read of.
It’s not worth checking your roof if the ground isn’t dry.
It's made in 500/5 mg and 325/5 mg.
I would never condemn him or judge him. That’s God’s job.
I am only offering it as a help to those who are suffering here and now and are losing hope. You can do something with your suffering, which already begins to make it bearable.
If you have objections to the Catholic approach, then read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”. He essentially says the same thing....our suffering can be used for others.
I know you're not kidding, and I second that! Please, people, unless you are a trained construction worker, painter, or the like, stay off ladders that are higher than a low step stool. I know several people who died or sustained life-altering injuries when they fell off ladders while painting, cleaning gutters, retrieving something from what seemed a low(ish) roof. It is just not worth the risk.
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