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mucifer

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7. That's why I really don't like articles like this.

Reply to njlib (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:29 AM

Oct 2015

They are very one sided. Reading the whole article doesn't give you the complexity of the issue.

It makes it harder to educate the patients who need these meds that these meds are for them and not for the addicts. I often talk to parents of dying kids who refuse narcotics for their kids in there final months weeks or even days. They say they don't want their kids to get addicted. Usually talking with them a while helps them understand that the suffering can be better controlled with the proper meds.

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That's why I really don't like articles like this. mucifer Oct 2015 #7

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