Denying medical care,especially a lung transplant, to an opiate addict is both cruelly unethical and idiotic. What's the problem? "He will, more than non-users, enjoy the pain medication we give routinely after surgery and other painful procedures"? "We will need to give him stronger than normal doses of opiates because he's an addict"?
Go to law to enforce the proper ethical medical treatment of addicts, sure, but don't continue the charade that opiate addiction is a "disability." It's the same authoritarian horseshit that leads to denying junkies proper medical treatment in the first place.
An addict becomes an addict voluntarily. Only someone laid up in the hospital for months being administered opiates for pain qualifies as an unwilling addict, and such habits can be kicked in a week with comparatively little discomfort.
Blame the absolutely moronic idea foisted on us by the usual suspects that somehow the junkie is an unwitting victim.
Denying medical care,especially a lung transplant, to an opiate addict is both cruelly unethical and idiotic. What's the problem? "He will, more than non-users, enjoy the pain medication we give routinely after surgery and other painful procedures"? "We will need to give him stronger than normal doses of opiates because he's an addict"?
Go to law to enforce the proper ethical medical treatment of addicts, sure, but don't continue the charade that opiate addiction is a "disability." It's the same authoritarian horseshit that leads to denying junkies proper medical treatment in the first place.
An addict becomes an addict voluntarily. Only someone laid up in the hospital for months being administered opiates for pain qualifies as an unwilling addict, and such habits can be kicked in a week with comparatively little discomfort.
Blame the absolutely moronic idea foisted on us by the usual suspects that somehow the junkie is an unwitting victim.
Thomas Szasz is right!