Re: Chronic Pain Fuels Boom in Opioids

[Guest guest]

Wow! What a steaming load!

Aside from the glaring factual errors, there is a lot of transference. The

anti-opioid lobby is claiming that the pro opioid lobby is doing exactly

what they're doing. Did anyone notice how that article makes it sound like

opioids are easy to get?

What world are these people living in?

Did drug companies fund research that has expanded access to opioids? Yes.

Is the research still valid? Yes. The drug companies had to spend so much

because no one ever did any research before. Also, the anti-opioid lobby

spends just as much (and frequently more) lobbying against opioids.

Opioids are no great evil. They can be used for good or evil. They can end

suffering and they can cause addiction if not used correctly.

One thing that I know for sure, this article is nothing more than

propaganda. Also, the risks have been greatly exaggerated. Anyone who dies

with the smallest amount of opioids in their system is automatically

labelled as an " opioid related death " , even if they have a bullet hole in

their head and heart. Most (almost all) of the people who have been harmed

by opioids were either not using them as prescribed or they were never

prescribed them.

Should everyone and their uncle have access to opioids? Heck no. Should

cancer patients be the only ones who get relief from their severe

intractable pain? Of course not!

My cancer shouldn't be the only reason I don't have to suffer agonizing

pain 24/7/365 (this year, 24/7/366) when there are plenty of non-cancer

patients in just as much pain as I am in.

Undertreatment of pain is still the norm and articles like that just harm

more patients. There's a reason opioids are the primary pain treatments,

they work. And, they can do it long-term with minimal side effects and no

organ damage (unlike NSAIDs [ibuprofen, naproxen, etc], -2 Inhibitors

[Celebrex, Vioxx], acetaminophen/Tylenol, and countless others)

Steve M in PA

On Feb 23, 2012 5:53 PM, <CFAlliance-owner > wrote:

Chronic Pain Fuels Boom in Opioids

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