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Solkanar512 posted:How do we know that pain meds are being prescribed too much rather than other nations simply not caring about pain? It seems rather cruel to tell a patient, "just suck it up, it's only terminal cancer". How much higher are these rates? Are doctors generally giving refills on these automatically? Or does this have to do with the lack of records that cross state lines? It's just as likely that other industrialized nations have better systems in place to manage chronic pain than to write a bottomless scrip for opioids, which doesn't help long term but is the least costly option. Solkanar512 posted:So what changed such that it's affecting new demographic groups? From what I've read, we've created a stealth class of opiate addicts through relatively generous pain pill policies, because these are powerful drugs just good drugs because they're legal and doctors said you could take them. Except if you start cracking down on how many pills an addict can get a month or how stringent perscription policies are (cracking down on pill mills) people suddenly can't get the pills anymore and since you're breaking the law anyway cheaper and easier to get heroin might start looking like a good option. fade5 posted:Now that Heroin affects middle class white people, it's suddenly an epidemic and we need to take a look at our drug laws and throwing people in jail for shitloads of time. Well it's not just "white people's lives are more valuable" but an actual increase in drug consumption. Especially as people end up falling backwards into addiction through the medical system rather than due to stereotypical methods of lowlife drug abuse. These images are as powerful as they are false, and can easily convince a middle class pillhead that they're not an addict because they get their drugs from a doctor. boner confessor fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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PT6A posted:Yeah, cannabis leaves you totally functional it doesn't if you smoke below your threshold i mean a couple shots won't get most people slurring and stumbling either
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OwlFancier posted:Possibly because America has an enormous for-profit medical and pharmaceutical industry which are heavily in bed with both each other and the government. yep. becoming a legal drug manufacturer is intensely lucrative, especially if you can patent your product
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