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You've clearly never lived with any sort of chronic pain condition. I've only ever gotten fentanyl once - in the hospital, with a doctor's hand inside my stomach. You also clearly have no idea how hard it is to rebuild a normal life after several surgeries that don't end well.
I'd be dead or in the streets too except I happen to live somewhere halfway decent, and even then I barely get by on a monthly script. Do you have any idea how it feels when your insides are filled with cysts? Ever had your intestines on the outside of your body involuntarily? How about breaking open your nose bone to get even more cysts out?
You feel like people unlucky enough to go through things like that should just suck it up for their remaining years? It's just a little pain, right?
Those "paragraphs" has been the past 6 years of my life. My son was 3 when I got sick, and he's only ever seen me lie in bed or hobble around awkwardly.
I'm not manufacturing anything, I'm living it.
No, but I'd be homeless (and I have been, albeit for a short time) right now and probably on something illegal if I didn't live where I do. Whether you call it an addiction or not I can't function (read: move) without opiates daily, and I get monthly injections as well. I have 12 different daily medications atm. Do you think I choose to live like this?
Before I got sick I was a respected special ed. teacher. Now I'm nothing. Life isn't as black and white as you seem to think it is. If I didn't have a caring wife and son there's no reason to think I would have any semblance of a life. Many are not lucky enough to have someone.
Last time I checked the world is quite a bit larger than Seattle.
This discussion is incredibly relevant to the situation at large - I'm not even american and still I was affected by your opiate issues.
Stocks didn't get refilled, scripts had to be changed and there's an incredible stigma surrounding the whole thing - one that you're perpetuating with these very arguments.
You're dehumanising human beings in pain. They can be vile, terrible persons for sure, I'm not arguing against that, but you're still dehumanising them.
Why would they be nice to you in return when you've already written them off like this, I wonder?
I lost my best friend to an overdose, yes. It was intentional, and his third attempt, but he did succeed in the end. Can't blame him though, as he had a titanium hip that made his life a living hell and no access to legit medicine because doctors are afraid to prescribe them.
Your insults make you sound like a petulant child considering the topic at hand. Do you think they somehow make anything better?
It's been fairly self-evident that sympathy for your fellow human beings is not something you prioritize, so I can't say I'm surprised.