Posted by Alexander on November 20, 2003, at 10:08:13
In reply to Re: Oxycodone (Oxycontin) for depression: How much?, posted by Jiggitykid on November 17, 2003, at 8:28:50
> DO NOT EVER take a pain med to boost mood. You will become addicted quickly. Take pain meds for pain only. Misuse of pain meds makes it harder for people like me with real pain disorders (do you have a pain disorder?) to obtain the proper pain treatment. DO NOT do this. Get a good physician and a reputable therapist. Anyone who is any good at all would not suggest you do this.
Nonsense - depression is a disease with a very much higher "mortality rate" than pain + psychological pain is now pretty much recognized to be a form of pain that is much more severe than physical pain.
See for yourself: type into Google "college of physicians and surgeons Ontario" click on publications, or news, or so, and then on tne article that says: "opioid therapy for non-malignant pain". This article tries to tell it's doctors that the college is anything but "opioidphobic" and that as a matter of fact not a single physicuan has been investigated, who has been Rx'ing opioids "in good faith". The article also touches anxiety with this advice:
SSRI's -> other AD --> Benzos --> Seconal --> opioids.Let's face it: it's crooks that make it so much harder for everyone to get what they need. medical crooks, and there are lots of them.
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