>I feel bad for people in your situation, but I feel like increased scrutiny is sort of a necessary evil.
Or we dont torture people just because you dont like the possibility, that people could use drugs recreationally. What you describe can easily be avoided with a mandatory explanation by your doctor of the consequences of opioid consumption.
I do disagree with OP, I am hard pressed to see this as well meaning concerns. On the contrary, from my point of view thats pretty close to simply being cruel and to use the term -
Evil. Plain and simply.
It might be a more socially acceptable explanation then centuries of "pain medication is evil, because it interferes with gods will for you to suffer" but it remains the same arrogant disregard for your fellow men.
This might sound overly aggressive to you, but I think it is absolutely necessary to call it out for what it is.
You are willing to let people suffer. You are ok with your decision meaning literal torture fro them. Because you are disconnected from the horrible effect your decision would have. We life in a democracy, careless public outcry leads to real life effects.
Its pretty damn easy to voice your displeasure of being confronted with addicts if you are not the one suffering. And this careless disregard for human life has real life consequences for people whose life are already horrible.
And it is the same shit every few decades. People who are willing to accept "the necessary evil" because they are not the victims.
The world hasnt recovered from the last moral crusade against opioids and the same shit is starting again.
There is in fact a middle ground where we help doctors find out if a patient is actually an abuse risk. Providing doctors with better insights into their patients through things like Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) and easier access to information from law enforcement can allow them to better make judgement calls. Also clearer access to doctors' prescribing data and the patients it relates to can allow states to better understand who to actually investigate as over prescribing as opposed to doctors who just have a disproportionate amount of patients in need of pain management.
Under the current regime, doctors are not allowed to use judgement. Doctors face ruination of their career, even criminal prosecution, if law enforcement disagrees with them.
Doctors therefore do the obvious thing to protect themselves - they don't prescribe opiods.
Or we dont torture people just because you dont like the possibility, that people could use drugs recreationally. What you describe can easily be avoided with a mandatory explanation by your doctor of the consequences of opioid consumption.
I do disagree with OP, I am hard pressed to see this as well meaning concerns. On the contrary, from my point of view thats pretty close to simply being cruel and to use the term -
Evil. Plain and simply.
It might be a more socially acceptable explanation then centuries of "pain medication is evil, because it interferes with gods will for you to suffer" but it remains the same arrogant disregard for your fellow men.
This might sound overly aggressive to you, but I think it is absolutely necessary to call it out for what it is.
You are willing to let people suffer. You are ok with your decision meaning literal torture fro them. Because you are disconnected from the horrible effect your decision would have. We life in a democracy, careless public outcry leads to real life effects.
Its pretty damn easy to voice your displeasure of being confronted with addicts if you are not the one suffering. And this careless disregard for human life has real life consequences for people whose life are already horrible.
And it is the same shit every few decades. People who are willing to accept "the necessary evil" because they are not the victims.
The world hasnt recovered from the last moral crusade against opioids and the same shit is starting again.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2014/04/uganda-legali...
If only everyone needing pain meds had a baseball size tumor to proof that they are "legitimate patients"