Best intentions, irony & drugs

by Simon 23 Replies latest jw friends

  • wednesday
    wednesday

    I just wanted to say that morphine and other pain killers have a place. I myself have severe chronic pain r/t severe back problems. I have had surgery, physical therapy and all sorts of things. But the pain remains. When used for appropariate things, most people do not become addicted to pain meds. They do not take them to get high. They take them to relieve pain and be able to function . it is so sad to see people come in to detox after being told they have an addiction. Many of these people live with serious pain , and it is cruel to deny them relief. These people need appropaite pain mangement, not detox.Sad to say, a lot of professionals in psychiatric area consider anyone who takes pain meds(unless they have terminal cancer) an addict. This is just not true.I will get off my soap box now.

    Edited by - wednesday on 30 November 2002 4:19:28

  • refiners fire
    refiners fire

    ..."It seemed that one of the ladies sympathetic to his beliefs,a woman who was a nurse, had done some research and found that Jews had slightly different genes than normal humans"...

    Hell, for all I know she got it off the "www.Biblebelievers" website. Who knows.

  • Robdar
    Robdar

    LyinEyes said:

    THere is no greater heaven than an ice cold can of this stuff, I believe it is highly addictive.....hehehBottles of coca cola are not as good as the can ones.........anyone eles feel this way?

    Girl, I must agree with you about heaven and ice cold Coca Cola. But I love it best from a bottle. Some of my best JW memories are about being out in service during the summer in the back hills of Alabama and finding an old country store that carried not only ice cold bottles of Coke but a Snickers bar to munch along with it. Delicious!

    Robyn

  • Englishman
    Englishman
    Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

    A little later in the story Holmes states,

    It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?"

    Crumbs! That's from "The sign of four".

    Englishman.

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