found online by Raymond
From Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:
I got a taste of this when I had a surgical procedure recently. The doc gave me a prescription for a dozen Percocet tablets. From the reaction at the pharmacy, you’d have thought that I was asking for the limb of one of their children.
I know people who have severe back pain and other chronic pain issues. Mostly, the doctors are basically telling them to suck it up, stay home and suffer in silence. Because the doctors are afraid that some badged-up, gun-toting Federal beancounter is going to compare the number of patients, the number of prescriptions and pass judgment without a care as to what maladies are afflicting those patients.
Just as we’re seeing the light of sanity at the end of the tunnel in the War on Drugs, along comes this horseshit to start a whole new war on drugs.
I’ve had times — recovering from major surgery, and during especially bad arthritis flare-ups — when I would practically have gone mad without prescription painkillers. They’re one of the great inventions, in terms of alleviating unnecessary suffering. But because a few people can’t handle them, the prigs and bluenoses insist everybody has to suffer.