Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017

[Farmer-Rick]

9. After having witness people with severe, unrentling pain, day after day, I disagree

Frequent studies have found that most people are all too willing to poo-poo other people's pain. Even doctors and nurses have very little sympathy for the pain of their patients. Studies indicate that before the mass promotion of opioids, most health professionals prescribed too little pain relief for too short of a time. If health care professionals carefully prescribed pain medication a patient heals much quicker and with better outcomes.

Even the current rise of opioid deaths is due largely to Doctors prescribing it and then NOT having a plan for withdrawal. So addicted patients go off on their own to handle possibly deadly withdrawal symptoms.

It's just all the people I've seen who were prescribed pain medication weren't having minor headaches. They were in such pain that it deformed their bodies and frequently immobilized them. Real awful pain is very prevalent in today's workplace where a person wears out their body trying to make a living with very little health care to prevent serious damage to muscles and bones.

The real problem is others can not really feel your pain and so to them it is a mild or nonexistent thing. And really in our dog eat dog capitalist way of life we discourage feeling another's pain anyway.