On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 at 3:30 am, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> > wrote: > > > >> There are a lot of other painkillers >> > > But > > marijuana > > is the only painkiller I know of that has a 0% chance of death by > overdose, and yet it is illegal to use in most states, even for > cancer > patients in agony. But Aspirin is legal > and > that can > kill > you, > and > Oxycodone > is legal too and > if > the pain is too strong for > Aspirin the law encourages you to switch to > that > > or some > other > > opioid which is projected to kill 500,000 Americans in the next decade > . And if you defy the law and choose marijuana instead the law will do > its best to see to it that your last days are not only spent in agony they > will also be spent in jail. > > This is the Trump administration's idea of getting government off out > backs. > It’s important not to demonise opioids. In acute, severe pain they are often the only thing that works, and denying them to a suffering patient is inhumane. In chronic pain, their use is more controversial. Perhaps not widely known is that in a way they are very safe drugs in that they do not cause end organ damage, unlike, say, alcohol or tobacco. Elephant-killing doses of fentanyl are used in cardiac surgery, and as long as respiration is supported, the patient wakes up fine. The problem is that some people (not all) enjoy the euphoric effect so much that they misuse them, leading to tolerance, dose escalation and risk of overdose. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
