You can't become an opiate addict without first using opiates, so it's important to ask why he was using opiates in the first place. If he was prescribed painkillers and his addiction was an adverse reaction to their use then that would make it less of a deal breaker, but the hospital might still be right to give the lung to somebody else.
Call me cynical if you want, but I'm against giving people that fucked their liver before being 40 abusing substances a new liver unless we have those in the plenty, which isn't the case.
The example under discussion is a lung transplant patient. Besides, chronic opiate use is not damaging to the liver as long as the opiates are pharmaceutical grade and, if injected, sterile technique is used..
The example under discussion is a lung transplant patient
That's great and all but how is it linked to the common case example I spoke about earlier?
Besides, chronic opiate use is not damaging to the liver as long as the opiates are pharmaceutical grade and, if injected, sterile technique is used..
I will ask for your source on this, I've seen the ravages of Tramadol, Fentanyl, etc first hand, granted this was in ER so most of those that ended up there were the one that mixed substances (please don't do that kids) or that ended up doing something stupid, usually because of the opioids abuses.
You can't become an opiate addict without first using opiates, so it's important to ask why he was using opiates in the first place. If he was prescribed painkillers and his addiction was an adverse reaction to their use then that would make it less of a deal breaker, but the hospital might still be right to give the lung to somebody else.
Why deny someone a lung transplant merely because he's an addict? It is an idiotic moral judgment that is totally irrelevant.
If someone damaged an organ by shooting up contaminated street drugs, that's one thing.
But merely being an opiate addict is NOT an ethical reason to deny treatment.
Call me cynical if you want, but I'm against giving people that fucked their liver before being 40 abusing substances a new liver unless we have those in the plenty, which isn't the case.
The example under discussion is a lung transplant patient. Besides, chronic opiate use is not damaging to the liver as long as the opiates are pharmaceutical grade and, if injected, sterile technique is used..
That's great and all but how is it linked to the common case example I spoke about earlier?
I will ask for your source on this, I've seen the ravages of Tramadol, Fentanyl, etc first hand, granted this was in ER so most of those that ended up there were the one that mixed substances (please don't do that kids) or that ended up doing something stupid, usually because of the opioids abuses.