Myths about opiods and addiction/death

[Guest guest]

Our internet provider is MSN and on the opening page of it today, there

is an interesting segment about the myths of people who are in pain

becoming addicted and those who are using opids for whatever reason

they do. In almost if not all areas that are discussed, the findings

are that for people such as ourselves who do need Oxcontin, etc. for

pain, the risks are very low. They quoted one article that had been

published by one of the newspapers in a major Florida city in which a

doctor had some how, according to the paper, provided drugs to an

individual who as I remember it, had died. They had to retract the

article and their glaring headline condemning the doctor, was because

the individual that was the supposed " victum " of a doctor

misprescribing meds was a known user of street drugs. I was going to

see if I could find a way to post the article here, but am not certain

how to do that. But if anyone can get to the opening page of MSN, it

is in the upper right hand corner that will have several stories

flashing past. Very good -- supposedly 3 pages, when I tried to print

it all, I could only pull one page. But this is one more source that

says we are not going to die from the pain meds --- but I think we

could die with out them, though!