Re: Myths about opiods and addiction/death/ agreed

[Guest guest]

hey all, my ortho surgeon is a firm believer in you

can not addicted if you are in pain.

i just loved him.

Diane

--- villaridge@...> wrote:

> 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!

>

>

>

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