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In reply to the discussion: How the opioid crackdown is backfiring [View all]Coventina
(27,223 posts)24. There seems to be a lot of confusion on this thread between DEPENDENCY and ADDICTION
Being drug dependent means you need those drugs to live a life approaching normal. Take away the drugs and the person will not only suffer withdrawal, but all the loss of mobility, and quality of life.
Being ADDICTED means that the person is seeking the *high* of a medication and will continually need to up their dose in order to get that high, and will persist in that behavior in the face of increasing consequences.
Anyone who is intent on cutting off the pain relief of those who are dependent on them for quality of life, I invite you to go fuck yourself.
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The doctor could have very well determined that his patient had become addicted to opioids.
Trust Buster
Aug 2018
#1
At some point, the person sometimes can't tell if it's the addiction or pain causing them anguish.
Kaleva
Aug 2018
#10
The people in chronic pain, under medical care, and who are being denied relief
Ms. Toad
Aug 2018
#18
Your wife doesn't deserve those drugs if somebody, somewhere is getting high.
Coventina
Aug 2018
#29
Opiates are pretty boring if people, pain patients or addicts, know exactly what they are getting.
hunter
Aug 2018
#50
Lots of side effects, but none of them outweigh the benefit of the pain killing.
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2018
#54
Any doctor prescribing opiates long-term should know they're creating dependence.
moriah
Aug 2018
#30
A person got arrested not far from where I live for selling her opioi prescription pills to addicts.
Kaleva
Aug 2018
#16
I am the child of a drug addict, and my siblings suffered because the other addict was their mom.
moriah
Aug 2018
#31
.... if you're saying docs shouldn't prescribe for obvious acute (as in, not chronic) injuries...
moriah
Aug 2018
#75
Trust me. If one is in chronic pain they will most certainly NOT be selling their meds
demtenjeep
Aug 2018
#33
There seems to be a lot of confusion on this thread between DEPENDENCY and ADDICTION
Coventina
Aug 2018
#24
I understand people are suffering from opiod abuse, but I cannot abide leaving people in pain
aikoaiko
Aug 2018
#36
Not everyone can take those other medications. Eliminating opioids removes the best option
pnwmom
Aug 2018
#64
She didn't have a cancer diagnosis. She was just so old that her systems were failing.
pnwmom
Aug 2018
#67