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How the War on Drugs waged war on me response
You are unfortunately one of the latest victims in this tragedy.
Just one thought. The doctors are partly to blame for not standing up to the politicians more and fighting for our rights.
Thank you for the support
Thank you for the support Dale,
I am a mother and homeschool teacher of five children under the age of seven. My husband works in contracting and is often away for 10 or more hours a day. I have no room in my life for mistakes in pain management. It isn't just for me, but for my children who are miserable with the unhappy and sedentary mommy that I've become. So, I'm not the only victim here at all; my family is suffering as well. I almost cried when I was looking up withdrawal symptoms and they mention addiction causing disruptions in your personal life. For me, the loss of the addictive (and I don't doubt that it was) substance has caused all the pain that addiction is blamed for and more. Even if you know that the drug will increase your quality of life, you have to play the game and pretend like you don't care about your pain management or they'll cut you off. To me, that just builds a chasm in the doctor/ patient relationship that can never be bridged.
You're welcome.
...and you are welcome here. You are not alone. (Twelve step program saying). My wife is also a pain management patient. The doctor put her on OxyContin a while back, and she went through withdrawal herself when she decided it had too many side effects. Guess what? He next prescribed Vicodin which is the same drug, but not a time released agent.
I just saw where the manufacturer settled a multi-million dollar lawsuit because of pushing it for off'-label use and soft pedaling the addictive properties of OxyContin. Fact: many doctors are part of a money machine, prescribing whatever because a drug salesman pushed it and probably gave them a cruise or something. Fact: politicians like Mark Souder have done all they can to persecute anyone that doesn't get their drugs from the system. Fact: we put more of our citizens in jail for drug use (by percentage) than any other country. Fact: the major league of baseball is banning a player for life because he tested positive for pot usage four times. Fact: the Drug War, or War on the American Citizen, is killing our country and our people.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence–it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master."
– George Washington
ashamed
stories like this just make me ashamed to be human, that members of my own species could be this fearful, hateful (love is letting go of fear) and condescending as to justify such unnecessary suffering as this in the name of
"morality" ..
then again the Bible does say that the Antichrist will come dressed as a lamb and commit evil in the name of God..
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