Tag: pain medicine
Posted on Sat May 07, 2016 at 09:50:00 AM EST
Tags: pain medicine, chronic pain (all tags)
Lorraine Berry at Raw Story writes an excellent op-ed: Chronic Pain killed Prince, not pain pills.
Prince was not addicted to pain medication. Prince had a medical condition — chronic pain — which is criminally under-treated. It is also a medical problem that is more likely to be reacted to with stigma and condescension, even challenges about the patient’s moral character, or, if male, masculinity. Pain is still the condition that we treat by telling its sufferers to just “suck it up,” or “maintain a stiff upper lip,” or to stop acting like a “wuss.” And yet, when someone dies from complications of the disease — for that is what chronic pain is — we react with shock and pity and anger that the person died from a drug overdose. Some outlets make money off our confusion about overdose and medications and our fascination with drugs.
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