Why Is It OK To Torture Sick People To Death?

OK, I have HAD IT with the stupid “War On Drugs” (WoD) and the mindset that it has inculcated into so many of the media? Last week most “news” outlets carried the same article about the big, scary “increase” in the use of painkillers in the US (reported, of course, by the government).

So what? Maybe that means that MORE PEOPLE ARE PAIN FREE for a change? How can that be bad?

Sure, a few folks will get pills they don’t really need and use them to have what they think is fun. So what?

The government’s insane WoD has created a fear (a not unreasonable fear) among those dedicated to treating pain that they will be harassed and themselves brought to ruin if they dare to actually treat their patient’s pain. So now they don’t prescribe as much in many cases, and people don’t get what medicine they need.

And that means that people at the end of their lives, their bodies twisted and decaying around them, are left to die in intractable, untreated pain - essentially tortured to death as a result of government actions. These people are GOING TO DIE - what would it matter if they DID get addicted to an acceptably strong analgesic substance? They won’t be addicted long, and they will end their days without being tortured.

What the hell is wrong with the people in government that that can be OK?

I know that this isn’t too awfully cogent or pithy - I have a hard time reining in enough not to just spew a long scream of hatred and anger about this. Go read Andrew Vacchss’ “Pain Management” for a much better explication.

And tell your elected “servant” what you think of a government that forces the worst imaginable deaths possible on those least able to defend themselves from it.

–A.G. Pym