User talk:Deadlytab
A message to Deadlytab[edit]
I reverted your changes to [Chronic Pain] for the following reasons:
- Editorialising - WP is not a place to promote your opinions (such as your opinion that opioids are not suitable for traetment of Chronic Pain)
- Subscriber only links - the link to the paper on medscape is not freely available to all users, so it is not possible for J Random User to independently confirm your additions.
- Political Agenda - the "all fruit of poppy is bad" meme is not related to the physical reality of management of Chronic Pain. There are many people with unremitting grade 7+ neuropathic pain that cannot tolerate AEDs. To these people the marginal benefit for pain management provided by opiods is a key part of their day to day survival. Responsible use of opioids (including monitored use, and continual assessment by Pain Specialists) has a well defined set of side effects which are completely manageable, and do not have adverse effects upon the patient or his acquaintances.
I agree that if Governments chose to, they could provide some measure of pain relief by prescribing cannabinoids (oddly, it's the CBNs that provide the pain relief though, and not the THC!), which could well mean that many patients currently taking opioids for Pain Management could have other options with a different set of side effects. This is unlikely to happen in the short to medium term in most places on this planet however, so it is advisable that an information source such as wikipedia should provide useful information, especially for people who may be (or may know) patients who are beginning to come to terms with the devastation of learning that their pain is never, ever, going to go away as long as they live. As it stands the article does not promote the use of opioids, rather it details that there are several adverse effects to consider. But it realistically accepts that for many people it's the only (even partial) analgesia they have.
Johnpf 10:46, 29 April 2007 (UTC)