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[HankVerde]

Amen, brother! As a former sufferer of severe back pain resulting from a bad auto accident 45 years ago, my life would have been unbearable without powerful pain killers (prescribed morphine in my case) after the accident. In fact, that kind of pain left untreated definitely could cause a person to become suicidal. I'm talking screaming pain. There was no way to sit, lay, stand, whatever, that gave any kind of relief.

If my back hadn't healed to a bearable pain level, I would have had to be put on powerful pain meds for life. At least I would have had a life. No one could have lived with the kind of pain I experienced, and I'm the kind of person who hates to take an aspirin and won't take pain blockers at the dentist. I have a high tolerance to pain, but I have total empathy for anyone in severe pain who requires pain meds in order to live a somewhat normal life.

[richme]

Sorry about your chronic pain. My comments stand otherwise and I am well qualified to speak about pain from personal experience; regardless of my pain, I mostly refused pain meds during my major surgery back in March 2010; I didn't tap the morphine pump at all during the difficult time I have post surgery. Regardless that is me. I understand there are people that genuinely require pain meds. I would dare say that the majority of deaths we have in this country were not because of chronic pain but because of chronic appetite for pleasure found only in pain meds and other perhaps illegal drugs.