{"id":75447,"date":"2020-10-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75447"},"modified":"2020-09-27T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T00:59:43","slug":"pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75447","title":{"rendered":"Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

My wife as a 40-year history of low back pain.\u00a0 It’s been good lately,
but she stumbled and fell the other day.\u00a0 Now, she’s in intense pain,
can barely move.\u00a0 We’ve been icing and heating, ibuprofen and Tylenol,
not helping.<\/p>

Because of the opioid crisis, she cannot get stronger pain medicine
without a diagnosis.\u00a0 She can’t get a diagnosis without imaging (MRI).\u00a0
She can’t get imaging without a doctor’s order. She can’t see her doctor
because she’s out of town.\u00a0 So today we’re going in at 6:00 p.m. to see
some new doctor hoping for an imaging order and some temporary pain
relief, a couple of Vicodin, just to get through the night.<\/p>

It’s insulting, it’s shameful, it’s infuriating that a senior citizen
must lie in pain because some bureaucrat is worried about junkies
getting high.\u00a0 If I knew where to get black-market Vicodin, I’d buy it
in a heartbeat.\u00a0 And don’t even get me thinking about sticking up – I
mean, peacefully protesting – my local drugstore.\u00a0 I’ve already got the
mask.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I had some exposure to this issue during the session – I was involved with some friends, drumming up phone calls to help reform the “Reforms” that led to the situation Joe describes, “reforms” that made it possible for the authorities to destroy the careers of doctors who prescribed painkillers out of line with untrained bureaucrats’ recommendations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking with Representatives on the subject – including my own “representative”, Rena Moran – was a truly horrifying experience. One got the impression that the original “Reforms” had been pure ass-covering for the legislators (and neither party was blameless, not that I’m going to give Moran any slack), and with asses covered, they were done discussing the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to joke that for Ron Paul to achieve the goals for which he campaigned in 2008 or 2012, he’s have had to have staged a libertarian coup d’etat<\/em>, and imposed liberty by force via an absolute libertarian dictatorship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s becoming less and less facetious over time. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife as a 40-year history of low back pain.\u00a0 It’s been good lately,but she stumbled and fell the other day.\u00a0 Now, she’s in intense pain,can barely move.\u00a0 We’ve been icing and heating, ibuprofen and Tylenol,not helping. Because of the opioid crisis, she cannot get stronger pain medicinewithout a diagnosis.\u00a0 She can’t get a diagnosis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,129,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-unions","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75452,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75447\/revisions\/75452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}