100% had your back and was on your side right up until then. i can understand that the opiate crisis in the US really fucked with you, still, that's no excuse. i hope what you said was out of frustration and doesn't represent you're actual person.
pain isn't always physical. i hope you find the help you need, but i'm gonna go now because, if that's what you truly believe, you're a very unpleasant person.
Keeping - sorry to bump this thread, but I *really* felt a need to respond to this. Look, it's a convoluted situation. On the one hand, of course I have sympathy for young people who end up dying. And I get, it's different if you get it on the "street" - immoral dealers cut with God only knows what, people IV what they normally get, and end up dead from an OD.
The problem is, that has *nothing* to do with Dr's prescribing pain meds. And I look at it as, I was an 12 year old who'd get handed a bottle of 900 8mg Dilaudids, 360 80mg Oxy's, 720 40mg Oxys, and 720 7.5 Percs, every 55 days. I could have easily gone wild, I was only 12... and yet I've never ODed, nor come close to it. I have zero idea what it's like, because I always used responsibly.
So these constant, *DAILY* attacks in the media about the horrific "Opioid Crisis!!!" purely because of Opioid induced OD deaths? Forcing doctors to not prescribe, or at least *never* prescribe more than a laughable daily limit of morphine equivalent dosages...?
If *ANYONE* OD's on prescribed/non-dealer-cut-heroin, someone in similar situations as I myself, and then they try to say folks in pain are at a risk of OD, and must stop...? If that person OD's on prescribed opiates, and it greatly negatively impacts me, then that person is/was an irresponsible idiot. Comparing my situation, and impacting me greatly, anyone who OD'ed as such... there's just no excuse for it. Furthermore, knowing the great pressure over opiates, anyone who continues using prescribed opiates irresponsibly, and adding to that pressure by ODing...? An idiot.
The bottom line is that, because of all this nonsense, and the pressure purely because of opiate caused deaths, the very day my Doc retires, I take a bullet to the head or whatever. Doctors just won't prescribe them because of the pressure, no matter how dire your situation is or how necessary they might be. That's just not fair - I'd really rather not die. But it'll happen, short of a miracle finding another doctor come that day, because I can guarantee no Doc you just started going to will continue long term opiates for chronic pain. So you'll have to excuse me if I hold a quite negative view of the folks ultimately responsible for my death. And the bottom line is simple: All this "US Opiate Crisis!!!!!" nonsense is because of opiate induced deaths.
So maybe I'm a horrible person - I probably am. But I think it's only human nature to hold a negative view of certain someones who genuinely, dramatically negatively impact one's life. Of course I hold sympathy for people who die, and, as I said, those who OD from cut-heroin with massive amounts of Fentanyl... who get their "fix" on the street... are completely, utterly separate from we who are chronic pain patients. "They" try to tie it in by saying folks will get hooked on prescribed pain meds, them move on to the street when cut off. However, this would not be an issue if opiates were legalized/prescribed liberally when needed, and folks would never have to turn to that "street" to begin with.