Excellent article. And wonderful point. Including t hose who have to take the opiates to function due to break down the bone/spine/nerves. Many poor old people are treated as addicts and this should NOT be the case. An 80 year old managing pain, should NOT be stigmatized. A 30 years with crushed bones, ditto. This is not addiction, it is ability to function and have a life. And it in no way is like the fentanyl or other drug abusers who choose to do it, without the physical pain. (In their case it is a mental pain of a kind, but a distorted thinking/feeling/hormone/chemical balance without a visible cause).
Excellent article. And wonderful point. Including t hose who have to take the opiates to function due to break down the bone/spine/nerves. Many poor old people are treated as addicts and this should NOT be the case. An 80 year old managing pain, should NOT be stigmatized. A 30 years with crushed bones, ditto. This is not addiction, it is ability to function and have a life. And it in no way is like the fentanyl or other drug abusers who choose to do it, without the physical pain. (In their case it is a mental pain of a kind, but a distorted thinking/feeling/hormone/chemical balance without a visible cause).