PETERS – All for the simple sin of wanting to relieve their pain
HYDROMORPHONE is an amazing substance.
When that opioid is coursing through your veins, everything in the world is okay.
You feel calm, you feel relaxed, and most importantly, your pain fades away.
Every year, thousands of British Columbians die for the simple sin of wanting their pain to fade away.
Some of them are street-entrenched with complex mental health and addiction issues — exactly the type of person whose image springs to mind when we hear the words “drug overdose.”
But many of them are not — they are professionals, students, dedicated family members.
What they all have in common is pain and the need for relief. Opioids, whether prescribed or otherwise, offer just that.
James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.
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Since the NDP government decriminalized opioids and made “safer supply” available to all those addicted to them, there is no reason for “professionals, students and dedicated family members” to be buying unsafe drugs on the street. There are also drug testing sites. Yes, our government should be building and staffing readily accessible and well-staffed long-term rehab facilities, but those addicted to pain killers, particularly if they are not mentally ill, should not still be dying. There’s something else at work here, I think.
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It can be argued the pain is not caused by the “government” in itself but by a socio-economic system which emphasizes selfishness, frivolity and the accumulation of material goods. Under the present socio-economic system the drugs crisis will never be solved.
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