[grania]

Money doesn't solve addiction. Only addicts can solve their addiction. Money will end up gravitating to the pharmaceutical companies and their pushers who got people hooked on their poisons. It's incomprehensible that people hope for a cure to pain killer addiction that doesn't involve the patients learning to cope with pain.

The other insanity is they're talking about facilities with lots of beds for in-patient addiction treatment. Think about it. What they're suggesting is a form of imprisonment, at the same time most people are saying drug addicts shouldn't be imprisoned.

They want money? How about charging and fining pharmaceutical companies and medical "professionals" who have been irresponsible about prescribing these poisons?

[Right Wing Assault]

patients learning to cope with pain

Some chronic back pain is severe and unrelenting when the person tries to function. They can only try to find the most comfortable position in bed and that is their life. Can't work, can't concentrate, can't do most of the things we do.

For those kinds of pain, the drugs don't even do much, other than to knock them out for a few hours. They would give anything if someone could "teach them to cope" with it.