Opioids

[Curious Cdn]

I currently feel that in Canada at least we're way behind in understanding why a individual becomes addicted to the drug they're addicted to and not just any drug. We're, therefore lacking in programs and treatments that actually work.

If we would stop ignoring the brain as part of the body and that as part of the body, it too gets sick...if we could implement the findings of how early childhood trauma affect the body and mind of the adults they become and if we stop using morality policing and making those who are addicted feel like scum we might see those afflicted better able to stop using and more willing to seek treatments that would actually work.

Portugal seems to have come to terms with accepting that drug addiction is not a moral judgement, is not lacking of moral fibre and that morality policing creates citizens who require more policing.

https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-...-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening#.IGAj2KMHF

I can remember, just a few short decades ago when stomach ulcers were caused by thinking bad thoughts and a lack of moral fibre made one susceptible. The thought that they were bacterial infections never crossed anyone's mind for a century and a half and when it did, the medical community fought the idea.

There is an overlay of Calvinism in our Western medicine. Perhaps, it is because those of Calvinist backgrounds often overachieve and go to medical school.

 

[tay]

When you are in agony there is nothing wrong with taking a percoset to ease the pain. Especially when you are trying to sleep. You have to be careful and don't think to take more than prescribed. If they stop working maybe you'll need time release morphine. If they can fix you and the pain subsides, you can work on quitting, I have had no pain pills other than Lyrica for about two months. In severe pain today so I took a tylenol.

More than 25 million people die each year without adequate pain relief due to concerns over illicit use of morphine

https://www.theguardian.com/science...le-dying-in-agony-without-morphine-every-year

 

[taxslave]

More than 25 million people die each year without adequate pain relief due to concerns over illicit use of morphine

https://www.theguardian.com/science...le-dying-in-agony-without-morphine-every-year

No surprise. When my mother was dying from cancer my father wanted the doc to give her morphine for pain and the idiots said no because she might become addicted. Fortunately they are not the only source of pain relief medicine.