How the opioid crackdown is backfiring

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58. I don't give a shit

Seriously. I do not.

I cannot take NSAIDs unless I wish to die; I do not. I can only take narcotics; I hope everyone who wants them banned can spend just one hour in the pain I endure after taking pain relief. Actually, I’d rather they spend their lives in agony without relief, just as they want for me and people like me.

I have never sold or given away my prescription medicines. I have excellent insurance; I do not need to sell pills to make ends meet or to afford to continue my care. Perhaps that’s the real problem - the expense of long term health problems driving people to do desperate things and people self-medicating because they cannot afford proper treatment. But it’s so so much easier to take the self-righteous route, isn’t it? Easier to enact another prohibition instead of looking for real solutions. Addicts are just scum and pain patients are just scummy addicts, right? Fuck ‘em. Yeah, well fuck that.