Re: question about addiction

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

What gets to me is when someone is in terrible pain and the doctor offers NOTHING then someone else goes to the pain doctor and gets so much medication they are high all the time and totally addicted.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@ladyroxanne wrote:
what absolutely kills me are the doctors who refuse pain meds to elderly patients because they may become an addict. what difference does it make. give these people a pain free existence for the rest of their days. i think it's cruel.

It's a tightrope for the doctors, @ladyroxanne. The govt watches exactly what and how much they prescribe, as far as controlled substances. Big Brother IS watching them. My mother's doctor gave her whatever she needed, unapologetically, but he got so fed up with the bird-dogging and not being able to treat his own hospitalized patients because of hospitalists that a year or so after she passed away, he abruptly quit practicing.

When I was living in LA, every time I asked for a refill of either of two controlled substances, the doctors that I'd been seeing for 9+ years acted like I was a drug-seeking addict. I asked for a refill on 30 pills once every 14-16 months! Now that I have moved, I've been seeing the doctor for 7 months and asked him for a RX for one of them for the first time. I got the RX, but he freaked out, and I'm TIRED of being treated like an addict :-(

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luvmydoggies · ‎07-13-2013

@pitdakota wrote:
No, they are not the same thing. 2 totally different medicines that work in totally different ways. Same difference as your body needs water, but it doesn't need alcohol. One can become addicted to alcohol, but physical addiction to water is not a concern. Water and alcohol are 2 totally different substances.

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