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The results will be costs sustained from the deteriorating health of once stabilized patients that will break budgets to smithereens (cardiac arrest, stroke, medical orphans abandoned by doctors who receive no ongoing care for their diseases or injures and end up in emergency medical crisis as their bodies fail), the suicide rate will continue to rise (up 4% last year alone), and the overdose death rate will continue its upward skyrocket (up 45% from illegal synthetics last year alone, let me repeat ILLEGAL).
Then there are the societal costs, as people are no longer able to work through the pain without medication (construction workers used the slang Workocet for percocet, as they give their bodies to manual labor keeping this country running properly and building it in the first place), incomes are lost and businesses close, which puts more people on disability. Mortgages and rent go unpaid, driving people into homelessness because they were unfortunate to get a disease or injury and have pain with it, pain that can no longer be legally treated. Families fall apart as children go neglected, and elder parents being cared for by their middle-aged children, previously functioning with chronic diseases that may take twenty years to completely incapacitate a person, go neglected as well.
This rips apart a moral culture, brainwashing the public that pain relief has a moral component, that needing relief from pain is a failure of will. Addicts take a higher social position than those with disease or injury with pain. Opiates which have been used by human beings for five thousand years are seen as an inanimate evil, the same way that liberals view guns. Suffering and agony is fast becoming an acceptable medical standard in the 21st century, requiring people to discard their emotional capacity to empathize with their fellow human beings. Dignity in one's decline and death is not only a thing of the past, but some kind of mistake. Imagine the trauma of nursing homes where forced tapers or removal of pain medications have been implemented–who is going to go to work in that environment, if they have any shred of human decency within them? Are the adult children of dying baby boomers going to find it acceptable when their elderly parent is begging to be killed to end the misery, even as medical science is used to keep failing bodies alive, IF the insurance pays of course? Philosophically and politically, since when do people NOT have a right to live–and die–without agonizing pain and with dignity? How does interfering in the doctor patient trusted relationship via DEA raids of legitimate medical practices that treat the most complex diseases and injuries, easier to execute because doctors don't shoot back like cartels?
Legislation by idiot politicians and electronic databases and piss tests does not represent anything resembling small conservative government. The Fourth Amendment alone is gone, there is no civil right to privacy in medicine as it becomes one with law enforcement. Do the rights of the individual to govern their own body exist at all–where are libertarians, where are MAGA people, where for that matter is the left who protest with 'laws off my body' picket signs over abortion and marijuana? Never have I seen such by-standerism–healthy people really believe they will never get sick, injured, or die. When it comes for all of us. The question is: how much agony are we willing to accept, how much punishment are we willing to inflict on the cancer patient, the elderly, the veteran, the person hit by a semi-truck, before we halt the Medical Police State? And no, people cannot just take Tylenol. All NSAIDS are dangerous to the liver, cause the elderly to bleed out internally and die, and do not help cancer pain, amputation pain from an IED, migraine, or RA. 80,000 people died in the U.S. in last years flu season, medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the country–which 'epidemic' are we fighting?
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