Poor, Sick…and in Pain

[enki23]

6. Not a good enough fucking excuse.

Being poor might indeed make a patient more likely to sell the drug for money. That fact is not a good enough reason to deny them effective pain relief. There are worse things than enabling someone to sell a few opiate pills. One of them is being a fucking torturer-by-denial. And basing it on their lack of affluence is as nasty as it gets.

A doctor that can be found to be prescribing opiates to affluent patients and denying them to poor patients should lose her fucking license. Pain relief is no fucking game, for people who truly need it.