At 9:41 PM -0400 9/30/99, Beth Benoit wrote:
> I think this discussion fails to take into account a very real
>problem that seems especially
> severe for older people: They're given prescriptions for potentially
>addicting medications
> by physicians who are tired of being "bothered" by patients who complain
>of pain. After
> many refills, with little or no follow-up from overburdened physicians,
>they are (not
> surprisingly) addicted to pain medication. (Not addicted to "pain" as
>the subject of this
> thread seems to suggest.) This from a first-hand scenario I've been
>battling (unsuccessfully -
> what do _I_ know about medicine and addiction??) with my mother...
>
> Beth Benoit
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
> (Prophet Without Honor)
I believe that most of the addiction problem is _not_ with pain medication,
but with tranquilizers and sedatives in their varoius forms.
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