Dave Smith wrote:
> gloria.p wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> the DEA has seriously spooked doctors. i think it's a disgrace.
>>>
>>>
>>> Some of them needed to be spooked because they were too easily swayed
>>> to prescribe narcotics to people who didn't really need them, or to
>>> those who were more interested in getting the narcotics for
>>> recreational purposes or to re-sell. My doctor was not allowed to
>>> prescribe them for a while. From what I understand he got in trouble
>>> for over-medicating his sister when she was dying from cancer.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, the DEA has to protect those terminal cancer patients from
>> becoming addicted. What a travesty and a horrible joke.
>
> We have a neighbour who works at a health centre with a palliative care
> ward. She once told me that when terminal cancer patients come in the
> first thing they do is take them off all their pain medication. When I
> asked why they would do that she said that the drugs kill them. So....
> what's the problem. They are dying and will be in less pain for a
> shorter period of time before the inevitable outcome. When my father was
> in palliative care we kept pumping up his morphine. He may have died a
> little sooner but he was in a lot less pain.
>
Absolutely! Same happened with my mother. At that point, death
was the best possible outcome anyway.

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Jean B.