I thought crack cocaine dulled the pain? OTOH, the wealthy can afford Patron

"Rich people---God bless us!"
HRH HRC

The real poor can't afford crack, Goat. What's OTOH? herm

Herm

OTHO = on the other hand

Thank you, Chris. I had an Uncle Otto who died in WW2. herm

"Uncle Otto"? Sounds German. He died in WWII? Who was he fighting for?

This has to be the stupidest study done in a long time. What the hell does income have to do with feeling pain?

"What the hell does income have to do with feeling pain?"

*clears throat* - BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD THE MEDICATION ... good god!

You rich fuck heads have no idea what the real world is like. MOST families can't afford 7 dollars on a bottle of motrin because the 7 dollars has to go to rent, a bill, or food.

Talk about being out of touch of reality... holy Christ...

oh and this article is a big fuckin duh and a total waste of tax payer dollars.

This has to be the stupidest study done in a long time. What the hell does income have to do with feeling pain?


It doesn't anything to do with "feeling" pain, doofus.

It has to do with poor people not being able to afford the treatment or medication to relieve the pain.


The real poor can't afford crack, Goat. What's OTOH? herm


Uhm. Yeah. If you don't know what you're talking about, perhaps you shouldn't make a comment. If you've never lived in or seen abject poverty, then you don't know what kind of things it can lead you to do.

I'm one generation removed from it. I have family who still live in it. Not because they choose to but because drugs and alcohol are prevalent in their lives. They aren't a special case, either.

Life is like a shit sandwich, the more bread ya got the less shit ya gotta taste.

Apparently, people with more money also feel less pain.

On Fark this one would come with an "Obvious" tag.

Be Well.

They can afford crack and herion but they can't buy a fucking Tylenol. Kiss my hip pocket.

Wow, this isn't a complex one guys.

Broke people don't buy good legal drugs. They'll struggle along with ibuprofen if they can afford it that week. Rather than getting the perkoset they need in order for them to get sluggish enough that their muscles will mend, they will struggle through it because they can't afford the drugs.

I know when I'm tight on cash I will buy meds I need, but things like allergy medicine are optional that month.

I'm one generation removed from it. I have family who still live in it. Not because they choose to but because drugs and alcohol are prevalent in their lives.

I also have family who live in poverty who also struggle with alcohol and drugs.

I can empathize with those addictions but they are still choices.

They can afford crack and herion but they can't buy a fucking Tylenol.

Actually, if you replace Tylenol with oxycodone, I would agree with you. There are a lot of people who wind up hooked on oxycodone due to an injury.

For many of the working-poor who get injured, who often lack insurance and financial resources, they put off going to the doctor. The problem gets very bad, so they eventually go in, and get prescribed OxyContin or something similar.

Because they can't afford decent follow up care, nor physical therapy or surgery, it's very easy for them to get hooked on pain killers. Once hooked, many wind up switching to other drugs with a much lower street price. In my neck of the woods (Huntington, WV) this is often heroine, crack, and more recently meth.

In all honesty, Rush Limbaugh is a classic example of this. I'm sure he never in a million years thought he'd become a junkie. If he didn't have his vast wealth, he would have wound up buying crack on the street instead of OC.

Why don't these poor mother fuckers get a job and get rich like me, or they do us a favor and die or OD. If they come begging in my neighborhood, we'll blow their heads clean off. We hate poor people out here because they just complain about their pain.

Thom the compassionate conservative

if most people realized their pain was self inflicted, they'd also realize how much easier it is to take and overcome. three aspirin and call your best friend in the morning.

honestly, i don't know why people whine so much while the rest of the world is looking on a wondering why we're the most drug addicted country in the WORLD!

get out of the pharm's back pocket - where were your forefathers a hundred years ago?

toughen up america, or go the way of cowards.

Nanc-

re: "three aspirin and call your best friend in the morning.", as your answer to suffering,

As You Have Done Unto the Least of These, You Have Done Unto Me

Who was that?

FWThom-
Satire died on this site in November of 2004. I'm sorry you didn't receive the notice. It was a lovely funeral.

"toughen up america, or go the way of cowards."

Another bonnified Murrican Christian heard from. If ya ain't got the do-re-mi, bro, suck it up and try Jeebus. herm

I can empathize with those addictions but they are still choices.

Posted by eberly

So if someone was molested as a child and then becomes a drug addict as an adult to ease the pain, that's just a choice? I guess molesting kids isn't that bad then. When the victim becomes an adult, they can just choose to get over it.

"Who was that?'

Nobody nanc would know.

So if someone was molested as a child and then becomes a drug addict as an adult to ease the pain, that's just a choice? I guess molesting kids isn't that bad then. When the victim becomes an adult, they can just choose to get over it.

Posted by TFDNihilist

You can make all the excuses for addiction you want but they are still excuses. What the hell did your great grandfather do for his pain? Did he whine that the government should take care of him?

People do have to take responsibility for their lives.

Don't tell me that a heroin habit or a coke habit is cheeper than going to the drug store and buying some pain killers.