I am likely to end my life very soon.
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As we reach out to addicts… with clean needles prgms and the like….. chronic painers have to seek other solutions ?
Posted on March 15, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve
I disagree. People have such severe, agonizing, intractable pain, it affects their mind and mental state! You may have Chronic Pain, but Intractable Pain affects 10% of the population. I have CRPS, the Suicide disease, because its the highest rated pain on the McGill Pain Index.
I don’t advocate suicide, but these people have every right to take themselves out of an unsurvivable situation!! You don’t like being judged for your Chronic Pain, why would you want to judge someone’s Intractable Pain? I say this, in love, because United we stand, divided we fall.
I am completely baffled why the lives and we’ll being of the addict are cared more about than the care and comfort of the chronic pain patients ? I makes me and lots of others feel like our lives do not matter because we are permanently broken and will never heal, where as the addict could get clean possibly. So our government knows were not addicts, knows we need opioids for pain, but since we can no longer work like we have in the past, we are throw away people, just a drag on society, even though most of us broke ourselves working hard for our families. America knows there are several people in our congress/government that are getting their medication without problems and our tax dollars pay for it.
Chronic pain patients saying they will end their lives does not benefit anyone with chronic pain. You can be confident it will be viewed as damage done by long term opiates for chronic pain.
doctors are (unjustly) being charged with some degree of homicides when their pts OD from prescribed opiates… why shouldn’t insurance companies, PBM’s, healthcare corporations be charged – or their corporate officers – be charged with assisting suicide … when stable chronic pain pts have their dose reduced/stopped for no other reason but for some arbitrary dosing guideline or daily limits that have no medical justification IMO… that is why the deaths (suicides) of chronic pain pts do not get much attention… because most/all of their relatives/family walk away from the funeral saying ” at least he/she is no longer in pain”… whereas when a addict OD’s… the family walks away from the funeral saying “..we are going to make sure that this doesn’t happen to another family – EVER ! ” which one is the media going to latch on to ?
That is such a great point, Steve! I’ve been dealing w/ intractable pain for 27+ years and I must admit that I haven’t thought about how this is so true. I’ve dealt with a specific person who comes from that point of view and it’s difficult to point out w/out feeling like a jerk, that his loved one died while getting high. Thanks for this and all of the rest that you do.
The job and responsibility of doctors is different than those of insurance companies, pharmacy benefits,managers and health care organizations.
Each state defines what is required before a person can be charged with a crime. Unless a person works in the District Attorney’s Office, Practices Criminal Law, is a Criminal Court Judge, etc. They have no idea exactly what their state’s law requires before charging someone with homicide. Or any other crime
I always thought that “intent” to commit the crime had to be proven, do you know if its true?
Intent does play a role. But intent is not the only factor. The prosecutor also looks at things like responsibility. For example a doctor would have a greater responsibility than most individuals.
Someone being arrested, charged, put on trial and convicted are different steps . The evidence needed for each step is different.
Someone can be arrested, charged and put in trial. But be found not guilty of the charges. Or they can be arrested and charged. But, the prosecutor may decline to put them on trial due to lack of sufficient evidence to gain a conviction.
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Those that work in the Criminal Justice System weight the evidence. Emotions are not evidence.