DLM: Druggies Lives Matter

[Major Tom]

Why is society so hell bent on saving the lives of druggies? Immodium is now on the hit list of possible control! Really? Years ago, Motrim Sinus headache was taken off the market because of them. Pain control pills now on hit list! So, because of druggies everyone else has to suffer while society gives them sterile needles and even watches over them while they shoot up!

[clintonhater]

Don't forget, addicts are helpless innocent victims of a disease for which they bear no personal responsibility--that's why they deserve our love & compassion.

Meanwhile, victims of severe pain are facing a crisis. Several years ago, a severe leg injury caused me the most excruciating pain in my life, lasting over a month. MD gave me a generous supply of that invention of the Devil, Oxycontin, without which I'd have blown my brains out. If the same thing happened now, I'd probably have to blow my brains out, because new state laws limit prescriptions for all drugs like Oxycontin to ONE WEEK.

No surprise that political demagogues have jumped on this bandwagon, but how can the medical profession remain dead silent about this interference with their duties to their patients???

Even after taking very large doses of this drug at first (which gradually diminished) for about 6 wks, I had no "compulsion" to keep on taking it as the pain finally diminished; for one thing, it causes bad constipation. So all these tear-rending stories told almost every night on TV about the poor folks who were prescribed it for some legit injury, then found that they were hopelessly "hooked" and couldn't stop even though they wanted to, are damnable LIES! They kept taking it because they enjoyed the effects!

[Vern Humphrey]

During the View Nam War, the Army used morphine. Badly wounded patients were kept on morphine until they were physically healed -- and then they went through de-tox. I know quite a few people who had that experience. I would never take a habit forming pain pill unless I had no choice -- and neither would my wife, who was an Army nurse.

[blackhawknj]

Meanwhile they're pushing to legalize MJ.

[dryheat]

I've "done" some drugs. At 21 yrs of age I tried a number of things. LSD ect. Speed is interesting because it makes you feel like Einstein...for a little while, but I was smart enough to, well, know I'm not really Einstein. It's all fake, and I knew it. I saw the scary movies(old 8mm) about heroin. I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot needle. AndI don't like needles. When I wrecked the motorcycle I was in pain for 18 months. I'dve paid $5 for aspirin around that time. There was a point when I thought, "This can't go on". No doctors gave me pain meds and they rejected the idea of cortizone. One day the pain just stopped. If I had gotten serious pain meds maybe it would have helped some. I like to think when the shoulder was fixed up I would have stopped with the meds. I'm just not a druggie. Medical majijuana or medical heroin it's a slippery slope if your dumb. If dummies OD on the stuff, well, less dummies.

[clintonhater]

Speed is interesting because it makes you feel like Einstein...for a little while, but I was smart enough to, well, know I'm not really Einstein.

Couldn't have gotten through college without "diet pills," which in the '60s & '70s, ANY woman weight problem or not could get merely by asking their MD for them. But not to "feel like Einstein," to stay up all night cramming for an exam. It was like getting a loan for money now that had to be paid back later; the "paying back" in this case was going without sleep for about 2 days after using them, but I knew that was the price and considered it worth a good grade.

[blackhawknj]

Yes, I do not agonize over druggies deaths. As Gilbert and Sullivan wrote in KoKo's aria "I've got a little list"
"There is no shortage of people whose loss will be a distinct gain to society at large."

[JB White]

When younger I hung out where the horse junkies would be shooting up. Sickening to watch. Thankfully none of them lived as long as I have. Good riddance. They were xxxxheads before they began shooting. It's the reason I was never tempted to try that crap. I watched and I learned.

[S.A. Boggs]

Me, I am a coward having worked with druggies far too long. Found one dead on his front porch, sad sight. When I did away with my cancer meds I looked at what I was given and was appalled. If I had know what I was prescribed I doubt that I would have taken them, liquid OxyContin was right there. My favorite pain medication, aspirin, was taken away due to bleeding issues during rectal radiation. Cancer has horrible pain to deal with along with the side affects of chemo and radiation, so pain management is a must. The only addiction that I have is with liquid Aloe Vera for my skin issues, I keep it in the fridge and it is marvelous stuff for minor burns and abrasions. I also used a pain management technique that Carlos Hancock used. That is putting oneself in a "bubble", I used mind control to encapsulate my area of pain. Lying is a hospital bed one learns to cope, learning to control pain without drugs can be done...I know I did it. Cancer patients have access to all kinds of pain management using drugs, one must be careful.
Sam