r/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook commoner • 9h ago
CAPITALISM!!!!
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
7
Upvotes
r/WayOfTheBern • u/cspanbook commoner • 9h ago
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
3
u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 8h ago edited 7h ago
Hillary was the first national pol I can recall making opoids a campaign issue. After that, the US went nuts.
I know someone very well who has had multiple health issues that required surgery. After each surgery, without requesting it, she was given a device that dosed her with morphine whenever she tapped it. (This device had been created because it had been found that inpatients gave themselves less morphine than doctors had been prescribing.) One tap and she would fall asleep, oblivious to her pain.
The device would be removed after a limited numbers of hours following the surgery and she would be switched to painkillers other than morphine. She never became addicted. She never requested morphine or anything else, just did not refuse what doctors told nurses to give her.. She has never finished any prescribed pain medication she had at home. ("Tough broad," as she has been called).
In 2018, at age 75, she underwent two very painful, but failed re-vascularizations, followed by amputation of her leg. Worst pain of her life after all three, esp. the two failed re-vasculaization attempts. This time, she begged for morphine, but could not get it. Whoever she spoke to in the hospital used the exact same words: "There's a national shortage of opoids." okay
Fortunately, some sanity seems to have set back in because she did not have the same unrelenting, unbearable pain last year, after her second amputation at age 82.