Larrry said:
Ot might be a liar and disagree with him on almost everything but I will not jump on board with his daughters problems. It not like when she was a lite girl she decided she wanted drugs to control her life. With all the stress for young people it is easier nowadays for the devil to grab ahold of them
I felt the same way..
the discussion of drugs is a worthy topic and if OT brought his experience to the table then I could understand others discussing it.. but to dredge up a year old article is low,..
drugs take a horrible toll and do not discriminate..
and I know some real good families hit by drug abuse..
I have seen and dealt with meth crack and heroin abuse,.. they never seem to get off of drugs completely,..
but to be honest.. we need to look at the cause of the use..
arrogance apathy, plain stupidity explains the young kids falling ..
but increasingly it is adults...
I know of three guys right now hooked on Heroin.. people who held down a job.. and raised good children..
All say they started for pain.. and thought they could come off of it.
they were all denied pain medications.. due to government rules and restrictions.. and yet now the government pays for their methadone
I can understand living with pain is difficult..
while I haven't used illegal drugs or alcohol to ease my pain I have honestly thought about it..
even when I was given adequate pain medications,.. (abut three years ago) I never used them all.. I even have some left over now, enough to
get me by for a month or so if I started taking them again...
I have motrin in the horse pill size.. and have tried most of the other over the counter pain medications and they do not work..
I have been on vicodin ect,..
I have been prescribed Darvon.. (until the FDA banned it )
right now they have prescribed Tramadol and it doesn't help at all..
gabapentin helps ,.. and has made my pain a bit more manageable.
With government restrictions a person with chronic pain has to try everything else first .. and now even tramadol is controlled,..
at least i don't have to "beg" to get that
drug use is bad.. but so is living with pain,.. and asking a doctor for something that work is like begging so I don't even ask, I just tell them I am still in pain and how bad it is,.. and all of them say they are not allowed to prescribe what works..
while I do not condone or even understand an adult who uses drugs...
I can understand that most drugs are used to blunt pain.. both physical and emotional pain..
it is something some should consider before bashing Rush for taking illegal drugs
we as a country ignore that problem,.. while liberals want to legalize recreational pot...
crazy isn't it..
some further reading about how backwards our government is..
http://www.novusdetox.com/methadone-pain-management.php
Methadone is chemically different from morphine, heroin and other narcotic painkillers, but it acts much the same way to block pain signals in the brain.