Comment · Tue, October 29, 2013
FDA Proposal To Curb Painkiller Overdose Deaths Would Add Burdens For Pain Patients
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Fifteenth_Platypus · 0 points
Read the edit, I do not think we should stop perscribing painkillers to people who are actually in pain. I just think it's necassary to keep a drug so addictive under closer regulation. You need to be living under a rock to not see the damage opiates do to people.
I hope your shoulder gets better, just try not to keep taking the pills after the pains gone.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
You just want to be the one who decides what is and is not pain? It's not about the pain! It's about the addiction. Many people who get addicted started out in a ton of pain. Most addicts don't just stroll in to try and get pills. They need them for a certain reason. Then they don't know how to manage the addition potential, and lose control.
Regulation will not help that. That requires better medical care. Having the government make it harder to fill your script is not going to change anything. If anything, it pushes people to heroin and creates a huge black market for prescriptions.
Don't worry about me. I stop taking opiates as soon as possible. I understand the risks, and how to avoid them. Many others do not. That education should be our focus. Not arbitrary scheduling by the DEA.