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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.
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The number of people here who seem to think that addiction has something to do with lack of morality (and "just saying no" to pain control when you are in pain) is astounding.[/b]

This isn't a forum for you to tell your story of championship high pain tolerance.  If you don't have a propensity for addiction, you are not going to become an addict.  So what if you refused morphine?  I don't care.  It's meaningless.  Only 13% of the population is at risk.

I don't want to hear your story of depriving your NINE YEAR OLD of pain control.  That's absolutely sick.

There is nothing about morality or lack or morality in addiction.  It isn't a matter of saying no.  Please go home, Nancy Reagan.  And if you want to tell stories about your supreme pain tolerance, start another thread.
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It is not lack of morality. It is weakness.  If you are strong, you will recognize your addiction and stop.  You will feel like you are dying and it will hurt, but you will stop.  If you are weak, you keep taking the drugs, regardless of what it does to your family. [/quote]

Don't agree.  A few people can go through withdrawal on their own successfully.  The reality is that it is so miserable most doing it on their own end up taking an opiate to end to.

However, it is perfectly possible to do at home detox with the support of a family member who can help ease the suffering in various ways and keep the addict from the very strong temptation to just say the hell with this, I'll get me some opiates.

I've done at home detox with a family member.  It's tough but entirely doable.  Families really need to step up to the plate here to get their loved ones through addiction.  They are the first line of defense and I'd rather see money go to educating them--and family doctors--than down the black hole of sketchy pop up rehabs.

Doctors should be trained in medications they can give to family members to help ease the pain of an addict's withdrawal without going down the route of addictive suboxone.[/quote]

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