Re: TV shows Just starting

by "OldGoat" <oldgoatmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Oct 31, 2005 at 03:14 AM


Dear Legend,

I thought that was the "season opener" for their series "Intervention",
where the family gets together and tries to help a loved one get help for

addiction.
I don't know if it makes me a bad guy or not, but I have trouble watching

shows like that. Almost all of them have an angelic child, parent,
husband

or brother that was the picture of respectability, until they were
introduced to this dangerous substance. The emphasis is always the drugs
are
bad, the people are good, and poor, poor, guy that has no burden of
personal
responsibility, damn the evil drug.
Maybe I paint all these shows with too broad a brush, but it just seems
like
they all have the same common element that all drugs are bad, not a
survivors attitude in those of us with chronic pain .
I'd love to see the one where they find an OxyC "addict", find they were
miserably undertreated for legitimate pain, crank up the dose to
effective

levels, and everyone lives happily ever after with a great quality of
life.
I guess my best chance of seeing my scenario to come to pass is the
Cartoon
Network or the Sci-fi Channel.

Have a good week--og



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Yeah, it did turm out to be the usual BS. In fact, the first turned out
to be mostly about an "intervention". Dr. Phil has had some similar junk.
If trey'd only have one show, showing how a person can be helped by opiate
pain killers. I think we could all tell a story like that,

But I didn't know about A&E;s policy; maybe it's just as well, because it
might get people to write to these networks, demanding equal time. I've
offered to tell my story, including the part about my incarceration, but
no one's answered.

There were a few, shown mainly in the early 90's; but people have been
brainwashed. Thanks for answering.


-Legend

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