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[quote=Anonymous]There also was a movement towards thinking pain relief was compassionate and worrying less about addiction. It started with cancer patients. My grandmother died of cancer in the early 70s. At first they wanted to withhold any narcotics for fear she'd become an addict. But she clearly would never recover, was in great pain, and was dying. And she was pretty much already addicted from the stingy amounts they did give her. My uncle who was a doctor intervened and got her on regular daily doses of narcotics. Withholding pain killers for cancer patients was pretty common back then, but it increasingly became viewed as cruel towards the dying and narcotics became much more freely prescribed for cancer patients. Then it spread towards greater use in other painful conditions on the theory that pain was not healing and people would recover more quickly if they didn't have to deal with it. [/quote]
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