Maia Szalavitz on Siobhan Reynolds

An excellent piece on Siobhan Reynolds and her importance to the field of pain relief in Time Magazine by Maia Szalavitz.

Why, she asked, when opioids can help treat chronic pain, are they frequently only available to the dying—but not if your agony will last years? Why, when addiction to opioids is actually rare, do we treat them as though everyone who takes these drugs is likely to get instantly hooked? And why do we seem to see addiction—even in the dying— as a worse side effect than agony or even death?

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3 Responses to Maia Szalavitz on Siobhan Reynolds

  1. Cannabis says:

    Ask rational, logical questions of the moral micro-managers who plague us and they will tell you the answer to the question that they wish you would have asked instead of the one that you did.

  2. strayan says:

    Why, when addiction to opioids is actually rare, do we treat them as though everyone who takes these drugs is likely to get instantly hooked

    Umm, because that would totally undermine the lies government spreads about drug induced addiction: http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/371/ille/presentation/alexender-e.htm

    Good article on Heroin addiction during the Vietnam War on NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/02/144431794/what-vietnam-taught-us-about-breaking-bad-habits

  3. Duncan20903 says:

    Marijuana May Both Trigger and Suppress Psychosis

    By Maia Szalavitz
    January 5, 2012
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    It sounds to me like they’ve got evidence that cannabis, specifically Δ-9THC, improves cognition. BWTFDIK?

    Life is the same after enjoying cannabis, only moreso. That’s my motto.

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