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[quote=Anonymous] I had a friend who had surgery and a two week scrip for pain meds who had withdrawal symptoms that were severe enough to land her in the ER after those two weeks. She wasn't pleasure-seeking about it all all, either--she'd had a parent die from an overdose, and didn't even want to take the meds in the first place. She ended up needing medication to get off of the medication--and, again, at no point was this fun for her. On the other hand, I've taken opiates for fun, sometimes for weeks at a time, and had no physical effects to speak of when I stopped. (And I always did stop--in the last decade I've had pain meds twice. Always thrilled to get them, always fine when they run out.) Based on my experience and hers, I'd say the conversations about addiction need to focus less on blame and more on physiology. [/quote]
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