MYK, read. Look up the stories of NFL players that are suing, have sued or simply have given their stories of becoming addicted to prescription drugs because of being in the NFL and having drugs pushed on you to stay on the field. NFL athletes happen to be a part of their own low percentage club.
People are suing Round Up for a cancer it has never been proven to cause. Lawsuits jump on many things based on popular belief, they don't need to convince science of the truth, only a jury of idiots they were able to select 50% of.
You know how many actual Drs have told me "Hmm, 7 concussions, that might be why you have migraines."? Zero and I've brought it up to every PCP and Neuro. And that's with one of those concussion accidents fitting what the Dr said was the cause of my cervical fusion. It's almost like CTE which players are suing over doesn't exist outside of football stadiums and court rooms for the rest of us.
So yeah, the morality police in politics decided to push pain patients to suicide to stop street drugs because it's easier to stop the flow of drugs they do control rather than the flow of illegal drugs they can't control. They created a fad panic to show how much they care. The truth is they're making the illegal drug problem worse by creating more customers (who then become addicts because that's how screwed up the definition of the word is) who never had a problem taking prescription drugs before. It's in the media which convinces people like you, people like you make up juries, lawyers are jumping.
Interesting discussion, though some misinformation.
Perhaps Luck should have found mmj and dealt with the pain? He seems like a boyscout who would follow the NFL directives, directives that prevented him from managing his physical and emotional pain with the best available tool.
I doubt it would work for his calf pain unless he was stoned all the time. If he's that much of a boyscout I don't think he would like it.
It might help with the mental part of it. When pressed by those who aren't getting pain relief those who do often admit that it's more about making them happy in spite of the pain.
I wonder if the media fear of pain meds played in his decision.
My neck has loosened up greatly since I started and it seemed to cause back spasms at first but now I'm using fewer muscle relaxers so it might help him long term.
myk...
if 100% of people tried opiates, there would be a much larger than 1-2% problem.
Maybe, but that doesn't change the fact that the percentage of people who were addicted in 1920 is the same percentage of people addicted today. More people, more drugs, same percentage, that doesn't fit the media claims that addiction is getting worse and we treat too much pain. Give people randomly injured opioids and you will only end up with 1%-2% addicted same as it ever was. And that is even with Drs being very bad about not weening people off of dependency and leaving them to pick the streets to end the withdrawal or fight through it.
If you don't believe it's harder for patients to be addicted look up the DSM-5 on Opioid Use Disorder. Read the fine print:
"* Patients who are prescribed opioid medications for analgesia may exhibit these two criteria (withdrawal and tolerance), but would not necessarily be considered to have a substance use disorder. " Patients have 2 fewer options to have OUD, they have to go above and beyond their prescription. And if you use common sense on other criteria they can't even get to severe levels.
