By the purposeful absence of the definitions of dependence and addiction you only present 50% of the available information to those who have tried all methods available save opioid/and adjunctive medication therapy. For some chronic intractable patients there is simply no option other than opioids to help abate the pain that never stops.
To deny these people an opportunity to achieve as close to a normal life as you would wish for yourself, you may be showing a bias reflected in the statement "Just say no." The attitude that "if it isn't happening to me, it isn't happening," is myopic and closed minded. Pain kills, as does the lack of knowledge concerning all the options one may be faced with when pain robs them of the joy of a normal life, and exerts undue physiological stress on all of the human biological systems. Robert R MPF Wa State
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By the purposeful absence of the definitions of dependence and addiction you only present 50% of the available information to those who have tried all methods available save opioid/and adjunctive medication therapy. For some chronic intractable patients there is simply no option other than opioids to help abate the pain that never stops.
August 9, 2008 - 12:26pmTo deny these people an opportunity to achieve as close to a normal life as you would wish for yourself, you may be showing a bias reflected in the statement "Just say no." The attitude that "if it isn't happening to me, it isn't happening," is myopic and closed minded. Pain kills, as does the lack of knowledge concerning all the options one may be faced with when pain robs them of the joy of a normal life, and exerts undue physiological stress on all of the human biological systems. Robert R MPF Wa State
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