I’m having a discussion with a guy about “addiction”. Is it real?
Suppose you come across an addict? What should you do? Get them off drugs and keep them from drugs as best as you can.
Suppose you come across a person in pain what should you do? If you can’t fix the problem at least you can relieve the pain with drugs. If the pain is chronic the drug taking should be chronic.
Do you get now why “they ” would rather you think in terms of “addiction” and not in terms of pain?
Without “addiction” they have no power. Your belief in addiction gives them power.
“If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” – Thomas Pynchon.
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I have a friend who has gone through no end of problems in the last few years. Breast cancer was just a start, she’s in continuous pain from multiple sources. And all she can take at this point is Ibuprofen, which barely works. Can’t use dilaudid, morphine, etc, wouldn’t want to be an addict, that stuff is habit forming, and so on.
Opiates work, and they’re inexpensive. Exactly what is wrong with being “addicted” if the alternative is chronic, excruciating pain? I think the main argument from authority here boils to Pain is good for the Soul. Screw that. Sideways. With an iron stick.