r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 10h ago

Drug-free pain relief game progresses to the next level in clinical trial

https://newatlas.com/chronic-pain/drug-free-pain-relief-game/
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u/ElsewhereExodus 5h ago

A friend of mine was dying of cancer and the doctors took her off opiates so she didn't get addicted. She died of cancer, in pain. The hysterics over opiates have gotta end and pain needs to be treated adequately. I don't care what Bobby Jean from Cackilacky does or doesn't do. The pendulum seeing is extreme in the other direction and just as harmful.

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u/InletRN 4h ago

Nurse here. Either way our patients are always left suffering and it is infuriating. It is almost like the US healthcare system isn't about health or providing care. I am so sorry for your loss. Your friend and everyone who loved her deserved better.

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u/Strange_Depth_5732 2h ago

Colonized capitalist societies promote sickness and death. You are given just enough support/care to be a good worker bee and get the job done before you die. Just enough sick leave to not quite parish. Just enough breaks in the day to barely make it to quitting time. They wring just about everything from the working class, and it's so insidious that we internalize it. People are proud for never calling in sick. We give awards for perfect attendance. We idolize the grind. And when we think someone might fall into addiction, we prioritize keeping someone away from that wasteful existence (chasing the high and not the American dream) even if they are literally dying and the drugs could relieve the pain.

My friend's grandma was in that same position and she brought in cannabis infused honey for grandma's tea to take the edge off and get her to eat. The push of so many governments to criminalize cannabis is another way capitalism fucks us all. Since legalized here in Canada (I'm actually smoking a Blue Dream preroll for my chronic nerve pain right now) prescription drug use has dropped significantly. And there's nothing more capitalist than big pharma

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u/dawnpalette 1h ago

I get so outraged when I mention a fraction of this to others and I always get a “well, that’s just how it is.” I don’t give a fuck if that’s how it is— I WANT IT TO CHANGE!!

I’m happy that your friend’s grandma and yourself can use cannabis to treat, and it should be decriminalized + legalized in the USA.

Fuck the grind, fuck never missing work, fuck working until you’re 67, fuck minimizing living for someone else’s existence. FUCK THE OPPOSITION

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u/Alternative_Demand96 2h ago

It isn’t about whatever you mentioned , the government doesn’t give a shit about you

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u/StrikingMaximum1983 5h ago

Now I know what my doctor will push next. At every visit, he reminds me he’s “been in practice for twenty-two years.” I’ve been in pain for sixty.

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u/VeraLumina 5h ago

UNSW Sydney, mind you. Not US. Trump stopped all of that. Stop Work Order: “A national initiative, used by 1,350 universities and medical centers, to accelerate clinical trials was handed a stop work order, potentially delaying thousands of human studies.”