Re: Re: 60 Minutes Prisoner of Pain

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--- Goodwin wrote:

> If you noticed near the end they asked the Doctor

> who is a pain

> specialist if the man could have taken as many as 25

> pills per day and

> not overdosed and still be able to function. He

> said

> emphatically 'Yes'.

I'm glad they had a legitimate specialist evaluate the

case. Between MS and the spinal injury, it would be

quite likely that the man would need a large dose of

narcotics. Multiple Sclerosis can cause hideous,

hideous pain.

The body is able to adjust to as high a dose of

morphine, for example, as it needs to relieve the

pain. It is a gradual increase in doseage, and has

nothing to do with addiction, or even habituation.

The reason he was taking so many pills each day is

that they only come in a certain dose.

I have heard of this man's plight before, he didn't

have a morphine pump, because he couldn't afford it.

Now the state has paid to put one in.

It would have been wiser for him to stay in New

Jersey, where his prescribing physician was located.

Different areas here in the US have different laws and

ideas about narcotics.

It was not wise for the physician to send undated

prescriptions. I'm quite sure they threatened the

physician with revoking his license.

Here is a link to the 60 Minutes program from

yesterday. For those who don't live here in the US, 60

Minutes is an investigative news program, that's on

every Sunday evening.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/25/60minutes/main1238202.shtml

Kaylene

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[Guest guest]

Or that the doc brought up 2 older ladies taking 1 gm of morphine. Hw

pointed out this would kill most ppl, but they developed a tolerance for it,

which was far from a crime. Now, if we could only get more showss like

that.....

DKC

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