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palmagma
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They are given heroin. It's called diamorphine. And of course they should be given any sort of pain relief available that eases their symptoms
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If it's medical, yes. If I were the cancer sufferer, I don't know if I personally would want to use it, though.
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They should be allowed anything they want and anything that will alleviate their suffering.
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I would give them FDA approved medication. I wouldnt have the medical world cook up some good ole heroin in the back, but there are other forms of narcotics (legal) that can help them!!
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By the boat load.
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You know, why the hell not? If they want it, I say shoot em up.
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Of course. Whatever it takes to kill that pain.
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There are other drugs that are legal, similar, and just as or even more effective - and yes, they should be allowed - and are.
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If that's their drug of choice, what/who could it possibly hurt?
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They should be and are.
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I have heard an account of a nurse telling the relatives that she didn't want the dying patient to become addicted to pain killers. Someone has an agenda. A year or so ago, the Justice Department (paragons of virtue!) set up task forces to GET doctors who prescribed more painkillers to cancer patients than Someone In Authority thought was proper. I think that the Dr's were obeying State Laws, but not Federal Law. Maybe there were some spare cells in Guantanamo at the time...
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Terminally ill cancer patients are given morphine, which is a clinically proven drug of the same family, but manufactured in strict laboratory conditions and not cut with God knows what crap. So, in effect, their pain relief medication is a safer form of heroin.
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They get something much much purer and effective for pain. Morphine Sulfate (MSO4). It comes in instant release (IR) and sustained release (SR), among other forms. We still can't kill all pain, like end-stage bone cancer pain, but we can reduce it measurably. When I was doing my practicum, I had a nice old gentleman with bone cancer who was near the end and in a lot of discomfort. He was on an MSO4 IV drip and I was supporting this with potentiators and frequent hits of IR now and then when his pain would spontaneously peak. Once when I went in to check on him after medicating him with IR after an especially painful bout, I asked him how the pain was. He looked at me with a crooked smile and all glassy-eyed while laconically pointing across the room, "Oh, I still got the pain, but it's over there now." He died a few nights later in his sleep, the way we all should hope to die.
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I think anyone terminally ill person should be able to ingest anything they want. I have no idea about the affects, but think they should do whatever to feel good. They are dying, which only happens once.
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Sure, any effective pain reliever is appropriate. Heroin isn't particularly special, just one more opiate, but the terminally ill are already allowed various opiates to help control their pain, morphine for instance. To read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/472405
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When my friend was dying of cancer they gave her methadone. Like anything else your body builds up a resistance to it, she toughed it out many nights to insure the effects would be the best possible in the end when the pain would be at it's worst. Lousy way to die..eh!
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