> On a related note, I have a family member (in the US) who works in a clinic, the sole purpose of this clinic is to get people with chro...
> On a related note, I have a family member (in the US) who works in a clinic, the sole purpose of this clinic is to get people with chronic or in some cases even terminal conditions off of narcotic painkillers. These people provably are in pain, but the system in the US is such that they'll kick people off of painkillers who actually need them simply because of some kind of "narcotic painkillers are bad" circular logic which nobody can explain to me. People with long term pain need an early referal to a pain management clinic. They need short term pain meds to allow them to do physiotherapist guided exercise. Long term use of pain meds doesn't work for most people. This is not about some moral panic over heroin; it should be about the unsuitability of ineffective and risky medication. When someone with long term pain takes opiate meds for that pain they start needing to increase the dose; this puts them at risk of harm from toxic doses. Short term pain is different; use opiates for that. Here's a programme with interviews with people at pain clinics. These people had active addictions to opiate pain meds; they were taking huge quantities of pain meds; but importantly they were not getting adaquate pain relief. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wv052
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- Historically we've seen capitalism be a good thing.
- > And if each of your clients is in the Healthcare industry and dealing with end-user medical data?
- They already got many many billions.
- It is generally believed that the trip is part of the mechanism for healing Interestingly, you can have trips without psychedelics, like...
- Yep, the loudest people get the most help.
- The real root issue, is that we drastically underfund rehabilitation.
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Historically we've seen capitalism be a good thing.
> And if each of your clients is in the Healthcare industry and dealing with end-user medical data?
They already got many many billions.
It is generally believed that the trip is part of the mechanism for healing Interestingly, you can have trips without psychedelics, like...
Yep, the loudest people get the most help.
The real root issue, is that we drastically underfund rehabilitation.
There's also simply no good solution for people with mental health issues.
Cravings can be an incredibly helpful indicator that you have an unmet need.
> On a related note, I have a family member (in the US) who works in a clinic, the sole purpose of this clinic is to get people with chro...
> On a related note, I have a family member (in the US) who works in a clinic, the sole purpose of this clinic is to get people with chronic or in some cases even terminal conditions off of narcotic painkillers. These people provably are in pain, but the system in the US is such that they'll kick people off of painkillers who actually need them simply because of some kind of "narcotic painkillers are bad" circular logic which nobody can explain to me. People with long term pain need an early referal to a pain management clinic. They need short term pain meds to allow them to do physiotherapist guided exercise. Long term use of pain meds doesn't work for most people. This is not about some moral panic over heroin; it should be about the unsuitability of ineffective and risky medication. When someone with long term pain takes opiate meds for that pain they start needing to increase the dose; this puts them at risk of harm from toxic doses. Short term pain is different; use opiates for that. Here's a programme with interviews with people at pain clinics. These people had active addictions to opiate pain meds; they were taking huge quantities of pain meds; but importantly they were not getting adaquate pain relief. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wv052
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