From EDS and Chronic Pain News & Info: Recent legislation has proposed measures that permit people to be involuntarily committed on the basis of perceived addiction. Not only could this legislation lead to egregious human rights violations, but it could also add insult to injury for chronic pain patients, who are often perceived as addicts due to taking opioids.
“Anyone who’s been steeped in today’s opioid PROPaganda has been trained to see all regular opioid use as ‘addiction.’
Since ‘addiction’ is defined as incurable and potentially fatal if not ‘treated’ by the Higher Authority of AA, any pain patient taking opioids would ‘pose a danger to themselves due to addiction,’ and be subject to being involuntarily committed.”
