White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain medications such as morphine. This was a key finding from our recent study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. We also found that Black patients were 25% more likely than white patients to be given only non-opioid painkillers such as ibuprofen, which are typically available over the counter.
When a machine fell and crushed my hand a while back they wouldn’t give me anything for the pain besides OTC. Broken finger bone and bruises and all I got is Tylenol. That was one of the worst nights of my life. Crying bent over with pain begging them on the phone for anything. I get migraines on occasion and that was worse.
My wife suggested cannabis so I went to a dispensary. Never had the stuff before and oh man did it work wonders. Under 15 minutes. If it hadn’t been legal at that time I would definitely gone to the nearest bad neighborhood and try to buy something. Which of course could have gone seriously wrong for me.
Maybe don’t tell other people how much pain they can endure.
What does any of this have to do with anything I have ever said?
Your dumb ass said, in regards to narcotic painkillers:
Which is not how reality works, at all.
Our friend gave us a very personal example as to why.
It literally doesn’t matter if they’re addictive or not, normal people need narcotics for severe pain and it’s unethical to deny them to curb addiction numbers.