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After an accident, a bioethicist was given opioids to deal with the pain. When it came time to taper off them, he says getting help was like a game of hot potato. 'The patient is the potato,' he says. 'Everybody had a reason to send me to someone else.'

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I totally agree with the author. I was flabbergasted to find the pain management doctors didn't have a clue. After eleven years I realized I was on my own. The intense counseling I received at my local county mental health clinic was the key to my recovery.

he should have just said 'no' who knew that message was from the Distributor GOP

This is the problem in a nutshell

Believe me, I was one of the first who was told oxycontin was NOT addictive. The doc had me taking 3 80mg TWICE A DAY, but my family believed I was the loser/addict. My 30 yr marriage crumbled, my kids hated me, there was NO HELP from society. Im still feeling effects emotional

The doctors are today’s drug pushers and no one is doing anything to educate them. New research shows Tylenol would work just as well in most cases, but opioids are prescribed without even asked if the patient has a prior drug history.

So then a huge cycle of slavery does ensue & then in others ways again does trickle down to us me & u Bc that’s how energy do - a huge ring of slavery

That’s becoming a tail as old as time. Transfer after transfer or recommendation after recommendation all sending u on a wildgoose hunt 4 help u r entitled 2 as a human right,yet,in our USA,this is ok Y? We go out of our way 2 not do our jobs daily. Gee,wonder Y? Bc it’s slavery.

welcome to industrialized medicine. It's not about the patient. It's not about winning, similar to industrialized war, it's about milking profits from the patient (or the war), because you would do anything to stay alive/win, just like the boots on the ground.

I say give the junkies all the dope they can pay for. I object to tax payers funding their addiction. Nor do I support our having to pay for narcam to save their lives. Their bodies their choice.

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