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Re:Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling by decoyworker on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:09AM (#20808254)
Insightful and true.

In America it's practically taboo to tell someone they don't need a thing and the tolerance for any discomfort is extremely low.

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Re:Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling by Nasrudith on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:18AM (#20809222)
As it should be in my opinion - admittedly colored by own experiences and phobias. Hospitalization is a leading cause of PTSD. That "discomfort" can leave people pretty traumatized and messed -all because of other's puritan desires.

If you washed someone's wounds in salt water when there were alternatives it would be rightfully regarded as sadism - why the tolerance for unnecessary pain and suffering otherwise?

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Re:Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling by decoyworker on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:18AM (#20809803)
There is a middle ground between proper pain management and handing out scripts of Vicodin for take-home for the slightest reason.
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