Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Pain Patients Getting Crushed By Pain Píll Crackdown" video.

  1. The biggest myth, or lie, is that everyone on pain medication are "addicts." That is nowhere close to being factual. An addict is someone who has an addictive personality, and who uses drugs for their euphoric affect. During their use, they become physically dependent, but they also build up a tolerance, searching for the "high," and require higher and higher doses to find that euphoric effect. Addicts crave the medication, because of the "high." Chronic pain patients, on the other hand, are not addicts. They will become physically dependent, but they do not seek the high, nor do they crave the medication. As a matter of fact, chronic pain patients hardly ever have to have the dosage or type of medication changed, unless their malady becomes worse. Cancer patients, with growing tumors, however, do need higher doses until the end. Others, with medical problems causing constant pain, such as permanent back and joint injuries, do not, unless they become much worse. Chronic pain patients become normal citizens under the correct treatment. The Federal government are not physicians, and sadly, they hire or impanel some physicians, with some mighty backward ideas, (generally due to a religious belief), such as equating addicts to chronic pain patients. The only physicians that the government should question or impanel, are chronic pain physicians, specialists, who treat pain on a daily basis, and have a specialty in doing so.
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