Re: Pain Management Agreement - DEA required?

If they want to crack down on illegal drug use, they could start with
the half-dozen meth labs up the hills behind where we live. One or
the other is blowing up on a routine basis, and then moving to another
run-down dirt-cheap slumlord-owned trailer to start over.

Pot here is nothing. People smoke it like cigarettes. It's the meth
that scares people...not to mention the lives it ruins.

As for refusing treatment to potential abusers, that, like evaluating
pain itself, is a subjective decision made by a flawed human being.
Personally, I don't care if they draw blood from me twice a week and
make me pee in a bottle any time they want to. I don't take anything
not prescribed for me. What frustrates me is having to fight like I'm
a dying woman in a tiger's jaws to get a decent level of relief
without hearing, simply because my disability is invisible and I have
psychiatric co-morbidities, that the anxiety causes it all. That
ticks me off. I won't deny that they feed off each other but the
diseases exist independently of one another and, since I live with
this day to day, I am the one who notices that when the pain is worse,
the psych issues are worse...and it isn't the other way around.
However, since I am the one who has the diagnoses, I am the one who
has to deal with archaic ideas that used to (and still does, to some
extent) follow the borderline personality disorder diagnosis that I am
one step short of psychosis and living in hysteria...that my supposed
formulation of psychogenic aches and pains are merely a creation of my
Axis II diagnoses, and that if the anxiety were controlled, ALL the
pain would disappear. The perceptions of the medical community,
irrespective of the advances made in the treatment of cancers, heart
disease, and other deadly diseases, is that people with psych
diagnoses or medical disorders that cannot be seen on an x-ray or CT
scan or felt with the hands or heard with a stethoscope have imaginary
aches and pains that don't really even exist, and that is a pitiful
statement on the affairs of things in this day and age where we preach
tolerance and equality and then shuffle people off to quiet corners
while those we deem more deserving of our attention get the treatment
that should be afforded everyone who needs it, not just the ones with
diagnoses you understand and that are part of everyday conversation.

Ack. I need to shut up now.

Trisha in MO

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