Comments on: Jesus Implicated in ‘Prescription Drug Addiction’ http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/jesus-pda/124/ The blog of the PAIN RELIEF NETWORK Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: That_SOB http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/jesus-pda/124/#comment-2462 That_SOB Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:34:15 +0000 http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/jesus-pda/124/#comment-2462 <p>Just so my position is up front and in plain site, I feel the war on drugs and the people who take them is total B.S. If you wonder why, ask Michael Moore at least there are some sane people left in this country. I don't wish to start a war on semantics but, the use of the words addict and dependant to describe the same thing causes nothing but grief in this society and to justifiable pain patients. I pass no judgment here but an addict takes drugs that can cause a dependency for recreation, for purposes other then they were made, or distributed. The continued use of these drugs for recreation causes a dependence that arises from the continued self-medication and abuse of drugs that have the potential for habituation . Dependence arises when a person takes drugs which can create a dependence for the reasons they are manufactured. A dependence arises from the need to abate pain and the continued use of a drug that can create a habituation. In both cases these people need help, but to often the legal system mixes the two people up under one definition and the pain patient suffers for the behavior of the recreational user. 90% of the people who go to see a MD go for the treatment of pain*, yet not 5% of US Med schools teach a class in Pain Management-- ah yes students do take extensive chemistry classes --so what ? -- Today MD's are sorrowfully lacking in pain management knowledge and skills learned from Med school. *(Time: June 2006) That_SOB</p> <p>GET THE DEA OUT OF MEDICINE !!</p> Just so my position is up front and in plain site, I feel the war on drugs and the people who take them is total B.S. If you wonder why, ask Michael Moore at least there are some sane people left in this country. I don’t wish to start a war on semantics but, the use of the words addict and dependant to describe the same thing causes nothing but grief in this society and to justifiable pain patients. I pass no judgment here but an addict takes drugs that can cause a dependency for recreation, for purposes other then they were made, or distributed. The continued use of these drugs for recreation causes a dependence that arises from the continued self-medication and abuse of drugs that have the potential for habituation . Dependence arises when a person takes drugs which can create a dependence for the reasons they are manufactured. A dependence arises from the need to abate pain and the continued use of a drug that can create a habituation. In both cases these people need help, but to often the legal system mixes the two people up under one definition and the pain patient suffers for the behavior of the recreational user. 90% of the people who go to see a MD go for the treatment of pain*, yet not 5% of US Med schools teach a class in Pain Management– ah yes students do take extensive chemistry classes –so what ? — Today MD’s are sorrowfully lacking in pain management knowledge and skills learned from Med school. *(Time: June 2006) That_SOB

GET THE DEA OUT OF MEDICINE !!

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