Your first link directs to an entry on LJ fandom wank, which I'm not sure is the one you intended.
Also:
Most opioid patients never get addicted and most people who do get addicted didn’t start their opioid addiction with a doctor’s prescription. The result of this skewed public conversation around opioids has been policies focused relentlessly on cutting prescriptions, without regard for providing alternative treatment for either pain or addiction.
This just screams "society is going to become more scrupulous and puritanical!" Limiting opoid prescriptions is a terrible way to end drug abuse! People in pain are allowed to take pain meds, or else require an alternative! Ahhhh!
In order to do better, journalists must recognize that addiction is not simply a result of exposure to a drug, and that “innocence” isn’t at issue. The critical risk factors for addiction are child trauma, mental illness, and economic factors like unemployment and poverty.
THIS. Addiction is a coping mechanism which enables people to cope with bad things that are happening in their lives, in lieu of better/more effective/more sustainable/more immediate/more accessible options. And no amount of pretending otherwise is going to humanize addicts more than realizing that addiction/dependence is a response to worse social failings or a prevention of real pain, and is not a personal failure.
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first link?
Date: 2019-01-31 09:56 am (UTC)Also:
This just screams "society is going to become more scrupulous and puritanical!" Limiting opoid prescriptions is a terrible way to end drug abuse! People in pain are allowed to take pain meds, or else require an alternative! Ahhhh!
THIS. Addiction is a coping mechanism which enables people to cope with bad things that are happening in their lives, in lieu of better/more effective/more sustainable/more immediate/more accessible options. And no amount of pretending otherwise is going to humanize addicts more than realizing that addiction/dependence is a response to worse social failings or a prevention of real pain, and is not a personal failure.