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blazeKing

(329 posts)
5. Screws over people in legitimate pain
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 06:47 PM
Jan 2013

I had horrible pain early last year and I had to put up with being treated like I was an addict coming to get a fix. I felt humiliated just trying to get help for the extreme pain. The hospital was the only place that treated me decently with the pain I was in. The way the doctors treated me, I had to endure harsh pain for a long time because they wouldn't prescribe me but a few weeks of meds. Puritanical America right? Suck it up, pull your bookstraps up while your shaking on the ground in pain.

It's not right to deny people in pain. Addiction is my responsibility, not theirs. Theirs is to prescribe meds to help with your problem. By the way, all this will do is increase heroin sales and things will just get worse. The demand for them is high, someone is going to fill them and unfortunately it won't be doctors now. So basically this doesn't effect recreational users, but screws over people in pain.

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