> People are pointlessly scared of drugs ... I exercise zero willpower to avoid them
People are appropriately scared of drugs. You are very fortunate to have that willpower.
I exercise no willpower when I think about the bottles of Bourbon and Scotch in my liquor cabinet.
Our anecdotes don't change the reality of addiction. We're lucky.
I'm glad the present system doesn't have holier than thou doctors sitting around lecturing you while your vision whites out in pain. And you know what? I'm glad that there are medical staff out there intelligent enough to be aware of this for physical pain.
The mental guys haven't quite figured it out yet - mostly because their studies don't replicate so they have very little knowledge.
Fortunately for me, my doctors and nurses weren't obsessive ideologues and worked with me on a pain management program that involved opiates.
Can you imagine having to sit in that bloody bed unable to move unless you hit the button to call the nurse all while in mind blowing pain? I'll pass! You can keep your sanctimonious doctors giving you lectures. I'll keep my professionals. Big ups for the folks at Zuck SF Gen.
I think if someone had given me this half-wit spiel I might have killed myself trying to get out of my ICU bed to yell at them. Fortunately, orthopaedic medicine is a more advanced field than psychiatry and has a replication rate higher than the 39% that psychiatry does. God forbid I ever encounter a field where 60% of their science is fraudulent. Thank god my amnesia is limited to the incident itself.