opioid ban

[Lloyd Smale]

just saw in tv that the biggest producer of opiods in the country is stopping production. Looks like they will eventually be banned. what a mess that will create. You have 100s of thousands of people with cronic pain that will be left to suffer and hundreds of thousands that will not only suffer but will be going through withdrawls. Im all for getting rid of them but youd think they would have a good replacement before they do it. I hate the things. Lived on them for 5 years after my injury and found pain was perferable to them. but im not the norm. Many cant tolarate pain. Even i do a couple tylenol 3s a few times a week. I wonder what this will do to crime levels. Illegal opoid sales will go throught the roof along with the seedy drug dealers. People will have to pay for they so theft will go through the roof. People that cant get them going through withdrawls will no doubt be violent. It could cause a bigger mess then what the pills cause. I have two buddys. One that has a fentanyl patch on 24/7 along with peaking pills and the other that has a pain pump that puts them right into him with the push of a button. I really dont think they could get by without them. Id bet suicide levels go through the roof.

[Ranger99]

I've had broken bones and was
glad to have been able to have
inexpensive opiate pain medications
available for my use at a reasonable
price. Last hospital stay they gave
me morphine, otherwise I wouldn't
have gotten a minutes sleep the
whole time.
There's a genuine need for inexpensive
opiate based medications today, and
If people abuse the drugs for recreational
use and fizzle out, that can't be helped.
Don't guzzle booze and get high for kicks.

My God there's been warnings and
information available to the public
about addiction for more than
60 plus years. It's not like it
was some secret that was just
uncovered by some reporter

[Lloyd Smale]

government has no qualms about making money off alcohol and cigarettes that are addictive and have no real redeeming value to society. they pass laws making more and more drugs legal to idiots that just want a buzz. Even heroin in some states but push to outlaw these! Just doesnt make sense. You can have it if you want to get high go out on the highway and injure someone but that injured person must suffer in pain till he can get out of the hosptial and go to the local hippy and buy pain relief??