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All your posts thus far have clarified one thing:
1. If you become a physician, you will kill a lot of patients if you continue your current thinking of "give 'em what they want"
2. There is no quality literature on the use of Cannibinoids for chronic pain
3. Marijuana is federally illegal so you cannot give it to yourself nor to your presumed future patients
4. You say you don't use any drugs yet have admitted to doing so when taking your friends illegal marijuana
5. You have zero medical experience and to claim "Using opioids out of a medical context isn't really that dangerous" is outright insane and proves how naive you are. Wait till your first night in the ER as a med student and you are running a code on a couple opioid overdoses per night on the weekends.
There is a massive, massive, difference between your perception of pain care and the realities that we see, all of us having had at a minimum 13 years of training doing this.
1. Thats your opinion.
2.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20073408
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12182960
and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence.
3. That depends on where you are.
4. Yes use, as in present tense.
5. The ER room is full of people waiting to get the alcohol pumped from their stomachs, that wouldn't support a claim that "alcohol is extremely dangerous" because the reality of the matter is, alcohol is only dangerous if used recklessly. The same thing applies to opioids. It may be easier to swallow some small tablets than it is to drink large volumes of liquid but opioids are safer (because they cause less cognitive impairment and sedation) than alcohol if used responsibly.
Also, these trips to the ER could be completely avoided if the patients had some narcan. A problem there is that to obtain it, they also have to go through doctors who most likely won't prescribe it because it is dangerous if used incorrectly. I'm not too good with words so I have trouble pointing out the flaws in your logic directly, instead I'll try and do it with analogies. Driving cars is dangerous. If done recklessly, it can result in your death, as well as the death of others. Does that mean people should be deprived of the right to drive by default? Imagine if you had to go through a person who may or may not give you a temporary drivers license depending on whether or not they think you need to drive or not, and whether you're responsible enough to drive. It seems absurd. Well the absurdity of the control of medication by doctors isn't far behind it. There should be a similar system where people have to pass a test to determine whether or not they are knowledgeable enough to be allowed to self medicate.
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