xxkcxx
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Sep 13, 2008
- Messages
- 7,799
I suppose, but I think it's a fact that recreational drug users get mis/under-treated because they've been profiled by the medical community.
By giving validity to this (sometimes false) claim, it simply ensures that this will continue to be the case.
My point is that we should discourage doctors from withholding effective pain and anxiety treatments, and we can't do that if we reaffirm their bias.
Maybe I did miss some sarcasm, and if I did, I apologize. I just see this as a very real and serious issue, and the example you gave was doing nobody any favors.
I see the issue the same way, as you can see by my other posts in this thread.
But when I was still in my active addiction, this was something I did. I'm not going to lie and claim I have always been an upstanding and honest junkie that never tried to screw the system because that would be a lie.
And really, it is what most junkies would do in the situation, which is why I am against giving abusable meds out to addicts in wd without them being in some kind of inpatient care. It's just too much in an addicts nature to abuse as it is to screw the people trying to help them and burn those bridges.
I had to detox several times after the example I gave, and I never again received any kind of controlled substance unless I was in an inpatient detox, and even then, I was only given Suboxone and one time, I was given Ativan. And yeah, I abused the Ativan too. I'm not going to tell you how to give other people's ideas, but I did. When I was in the depth of wds, I was willing to do anything. I tried to snort sugar once in jail just to see what would happen.
The desperate addict is desperate.
On top of this, if my post was the worst thing some surfing BL came across when looking for reasons to distrust the junkie, they probably only looked at my post.
People on here openly talk about doctor shopping and how to get around slow-release mechanism and how to shoot pills meant for oral consumption. That is probably a lot more shocking that a junkie ODing on pills her doctor gave her.