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“Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are in as much pain as you say you are. They don鈥檛 believe that your pain is a legitimate enough reason to rest or nap or cry or take narcotic medications or not go to work or to go to the doctor. They might think that you are making too big of a deal out of it. They doubt the legitimacy of the pain itself.

This kind of stigma is the source of the dreaded accusation that chronic pain is 鈥渁ll in your head.鈥� It鈥檚 as if to say that you are making a mountain out of a molehill.”
― Murray J. McAlister

“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don鈥檛 have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.”
― Sonya Huber

“In the debate over opioid addiction, there鈥檚 one group we aren鈥檛 hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.”
― S. E. Smith

“It's so exhausting, so mentally and emotionally draining when you care about a drug addict and they never miss an opportunity to disappoint, manipulate or hurt you.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles

“Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.”
― Sonya Huber

“There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But then I see these other faces - the ones who commit suicide because they can't handle the pain. Those faces mean just as much to me.”
― Donna Marsh

“Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in na茂ve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much harm is actually done to patients with chronic pain by withholding opiate analgesics.”
― Howard L. Fields

“Government agencies are trying to get doctors to cut back on prescribing opioids. I understand that they need to do something about the epidemic of overdoses. However, labeling everyone as addicts, including those who responsibly take opioids for chronic pain, is not the answer. If the proposed changes take effect, they would force physicians to neglect their patients. Moreover, legitimate pain patients, like myself, would be left in agony on a daily basis.”
― Alison Moore,

“I currently take Lortab, which is a combination of acetaminophen and hydrocodone. I鈥檇 rather not take this medication, or any medication for that matter, but it is the only one that controls my pain adequately enough to allow me to function on a daily basis... I take the smallest dose possible to enable me to remain as clear-headed as possible to do what I need to do each day...

Even with the minimal opioids I take, I still have pain all the time, 24 hours a day; without opioids, life would be torture.”
― Alison Moore

“the Times says there's a heroin epidemic, Malone thinks, which is only an epidemic of course because now white people are dying. Whites started to get opium-based pills from their physicians: oxycodone, vicodin... But, it was expensive and doctors were reluctant to prescribe too much for exactly the fear of addiction. So the white folks went to the open market and the pills became a street drug. It was all very nice and civilized until the Sinoloa cartel down in Mexico made a corporate decision that it could undersell the big American pharmaceutical companies by raising production of its heroin thereby reducing price. As an incentive, they also increased its potency. The addicted white Americans found that Mexican ... heroin was cheaper and stronger than the pills, and started shooting it into their veins and overdosing.

Malone literally saw it happening. He and his team busted more bridge-and-tunnel junkies, suburban housewives and upper Eastside madonnas than they could count....”
― Don Winslow, The Force

“There鈥檚 a saying that goes something like: 鈥榃e are all one drink or pill away from addiction,鈥� and I know this is meant to destigmatize what addicts go through, but I feel like I鈥檝e been seeing variations on this 鈥榗ommon knowledge鈥� more and more lately being used (on social media) as a cudgel to remind patients to not overdo it,鈥� Anna says, speaking to the dual-edged sword of awareness. A motto designed to humanize the experience of addiction has been turned into a weapon that targets people who rely on opioids for pain management, and that translates to real-world stigma.”
― S. E. Smith

“Water is the usual drink, but everyone has wine, for no civilization has found life tolerable without narcotics or stimulants.”
― Will Durant, The Life of Greece

“I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.”
― Sonya Huber

“A compleat suppression of every species of stimulating indulgence, if attainable at all, must be a work of peculiar difficulty, since it has to encounter not only the force of habit, but propensities in human nature. In every age & nation, some exhilarating or exciting substance seems to have been sought for, as a relief from the languor of idleness, or the fatigues of labor. In the rudest state of Society, whether in hot or cold climates, a passion for ardent spirits is in a manner universal. In the progress of refinement, beverages less intoxicating, but still of an exhilarating quality, have been more or less common. And where all these sources of excitement have been unknown or been totally prohibited by a religious faith, substitutes have been found in opium, in the nut of the betel, the root of the Ginseng, or the leaf of the Tobo. plant.”
― James Madison

“At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Af颅ghan颅i颅stan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation鈥檚 opioid supply in Tasmania.”
― Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

“It doesn't have to be that way. Belief can be powerful and intimate and transformative."

Anne shook her head. "Religion is the opiate of the masses," she said, and I shot her a killing look.

"Opioids are the opiates of the masses," I said.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“When your kid鈥檚 dying from a brain tumor or leukemia, the whole community shows up. They bring casseroles. They pray for you. They send you cards. When your kid鈥檚 on heroin, you don鈥檛 hear from anybody, until they die. Then everybody comes and they don鈥檛 know what to say.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“The impact of obstetric drugs on the human race cannot be overemphasised. Globally, 500,000 deaths result from illegal drug use, and over 70 percent of these deaths are opioid-related. In 2018, some 58 million people around the world were known to use illegal opioids; the unknown number would be significantly higher. Between 2010 and 2018, the number of fatal opioid overdoses in America increased by 120 percent. Fentanyl and other drugs used in an obstetric context were involved in two-thirds of these deaths; in 2018, there were over 31,335 deaths involving fentanyl and other synthetic narcotics alone.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Given that observable neurobehavioural characteristics in adulthood are determined in part by GABA-A receptors in early life, and the impact of GABA-acting drugs during pregnancy 鈥� in particular, on the construction of the brain 鈥� have been said to lead to 鈥榓 cascade of pathogenic consequences鈥�, it鈥檚 clear that the long-term effects of phenobarbital regularly administered during infancy would be severe.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

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― Sarah Brazytis, The Letter