LIFE Before Death Opium: Sinner or Saint
Our healthcare system has evolved to a point where now they label many things as “PRE”… pre-hypertensive, pre-diabetic, pre-cancerous each of us has a finite number of days, weeks, months years to be on this earth.. let’s admit it.. everything after BIRTH is PRE-DEATH !
When I was born.. my life expectancy was 65.. since I have passed that “bar”… my life expectancy is now in the late 70’s – early 80’s .. Every birthday that I manage to make.. my life expectancy extends somewhat.
Over those decades, I have become “dependent” on many things… food, drink, sleep, air.. and now certain medications that keep what medical science considers “normal ranges” trying to extend my life expectancy and hopefully my quality of life.
We are seeing more and more of those suffering from subjective diseases …specially chronic pain … as their medications are being pulled back and or they are dropped all together.. if their “quantity of life”/life expectancy is worth much without a optimized quality of life that their medications use to provide them.
I have been told by friends, relatives and doctors of people who are suffering so from their untreated pain.. have exercised their final and only option to finally stop their torturous level of pain.
Have those deaths been intentionally mis-classifed as “opiate related death” and not the real cause… basically hidden from view and/or swept under the rug. There seems to be little indignation by the relatives that their loved one was forced down that path. Unlike those who have lost a loved one who OD’d because they suffered from addictive personality disorder and for whatever reason… their death spiral could not be stopped.
Only the chronic pain community and their relatives can stop this INSANITY that is centered in Washington DC and many state capitals. The solution is not as tragic as what some in untreated pain are having to do… but is would be a sort of SHARING YOUR PAIN
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STEVE! I trust him to be in charge of that kind of money,,mary
Chippy, What we need is a list of representatives for every state that tells people who should be voted out re-elected. I don’t doubt that patients would be happy to vote out reps that have not stood up for patients rights or have made their lives horrific by putting up barriers to quality pain care.
Mr.Steve,,,this is why ,”they ” refuse to allow a box on all coroners reports,,”death due to untreated physical pain from painful medical condition,”,,,,if they allowed such a box on all coroners reports,,as I asked my own senator over 1 years ago,,,,they would have a LEGAL RECORD of the willful torture and genocide they have committed onto the medically ill,,,and they want no record of the torture/genocide they,,ie United States Government ,,as willfully committed,,just fyi,,,maryw
Steve for one, I am truly happy for your support and incites into this worsening nightmare of the government against chronic pain sufferers. Your logic and professional experience is priceless to or movement to end the injustices that so many of us are experiencing. Unfortunately as you know more than any other, getting the entire chronic pain community on the same page is almost impossible.
Your creation of the “VOTE THE BUMS OUT” campaign is IMO the best way to put a leash on our runaway government for now but how on Earth can we get painers to forget their previous political convictions and vote them all out?
Next of course is your plan to create a legal war chest which by the way I am also all for doing and will donate as much as I can possibly afford. As you know, I’ve been involved with our movement for about 3 years now, not because my meds have been taken, but because I know that day is coming eventually if nothing gets done soon. My problem as I’m sure has been yours also, is and has been getting people involved. With Facebook and other social media outlets we have all the poor me people who are completely afraid or just have given up. The question I have is, how can we possibly get these people or their families to donate to a legal war chest if they have given up on themselves or are afraid to tell their families anything about their pain?
I’m not wanting to discourage anyone, I want to encourage them to stand up for themselves and get involved but I’m finding that to be very difficult. Any advice from you or anyone else would be very helpful. I’m all in Steve and if I can help with anything at all please be sure to let me know. Thanks again for everything you do.
Chippy, I don’t believe it’s only chronic pain patients that don’t want to be involved. I’ve learned only 1% of people ever fight for their rights. Instead of looking at what’s wrong with what the chronic pain community is doing it’s more important to look at what we have to work with. I can’t remember the exact number of people who live with chronic pain but It only took 5% to start the revolutionary war.
If we are going to look at the problems with the chronic pain community we need to acknowledge that chronic pain patients have a hard time standing in line for groceries much less standing up to fight for their rights. They’re struggling more than the average person to accomplish basic daily tasks and chores and have even less than average to work with in terms of physical, and mental energy. And lets face it. Most chronic pain patients have spent all their money in hopes of a cure for their diseases and living on disability and are taking opioids because it’s the least expensive medical treatment there is that works for severe pain.
That’s why it’s so easy for the propaganda machines to paint doctors in a bad light when they see a lot of patients at any one pain managements doctors office. Yes, it’s a lot of people. But that’s because it works and it’s affordable. (thanks to lack of research funding for pain by our government). The government is the problem. Not the chronic pain community.
Amen,,”When any form of Government becomes destructive w/their ,;;just power,” derived from governed, it is our rite,our duty to alter or abolish it..Experience has shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer,,whilst evil is sufferable, then to right themselves by abolishing the forms their accustom to,But,,when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same Object,, evinces a design to reduce us under absolute DESPOSTISM,, it is our right,,it is our duty,to throw off such Governments and provide new guards for our future security,,Such has been the patient sufferance of ,”we the people,”and the chronic pain patients,”,,It is long over do,, to find new guards for our future security,,the god given rite to no torture and no more genocide onto the medically ill..
Curious enough,,those words are strait out of our Declaration of Independence,which has now been deemed no longer Legal Law,,, this government has deemed the Declaration Of Independence,,”natural law,”thus no longer can we legally sue them for violation of thee Declaration Of Independence, the very document that men died for founding this country,,,,That within itself should expose the corruption,& abuse of power,our government has become…
Maybe a petition to regain the ,”our” Declaration Of Independence as Legal Law once again,,,,and sue the living crap out of government for violation of the very LEGAL Document, that founded this country,,,a good place to start,,jmo,,maryw
Valiant, I don’t disagree with you that it’s the government and not the chronic pain community and I don’t think that’s what I said. 5% of 116 million chronic pain sufferers donating $5 is $29 million. Donate $5 per month for 12 months and that’s $ 348 million just in the first year, that’s one hell of a war chest to start with. Now the question is, Where do we send the cash to and who is going to be in charge of that kind of money.