4TimesAYear (Roland, IA)’s review of House on Fire | Goodreads
4TimesAYear (Roland, IA)’s review of House on Fire | Goodreads
If you don't have a vested interest in what's going on with
pain patients being denied meds, you might find this entertaining - just
don't let yourself be further brainwashed by the talk of opioids being
addictive.
If you're a pain patient, this book will make you angry that Finder gets his facts wrong. Opioids aren't addictive. It's the patient with the gene for addiction that makes the addict.
If opioids were so addictive, we'd all be addicts, but only one half of one percent of patients ever become addicts. 99.5% can't addict. Something else Finder got wrong is that the pain patient on the non-existent "Oxydone" isn't an addict. He may have been dependent, but that is not addiction. And Opioids work for chronic pain for untold numbers of people. They don't get high, they get pain relief. It is a shame that Finder found it necessary to perpetuate the myths about opioids that add fuel to the fire that pain patients are addicts. It is a shame that Finder found it necessary to write such a story instead of doing his research to find that it's not the pills that cause the addiction, but the gene. If you don't have the gene, you can't addict.
As a pain patient I thought Finder had gone off the deep end with opiophobia of the day and decided not to read it, then, since I enjoy Finder's books, I thought I'd read it to give him a fair chance - hoping that just maybe Finder's character would understand all of the above before the story was over. I was deeply disappointed. Again, Finder just added fuel to the flames of doctors denying pain patients of all kinds the serious pain relievers they need for fear of them becoming addicted when they have been used safely when used as prescribed for the better part of a century. It's not the prescriptions causing the "opioid crisis" or deaths. It's the illicit fentanyl coming over the southern border. I wish Finder had written this from the perspective of patients who are being abused in ERs all across this country. The big scam nowadays is that people are getting anti-psychotics like Haldol in ERs instead of pain relievers - without being told what they are being given. Sick. That might just be the last Finder novel I ever read.
If you're a pain patient, this book will make you angry that Finder gets his facts wrong. Opioids aren't addictive. It's the patient with the gene for addiction that makes the addict.
If opioids were so addictive, we'd all be addicts, but only one half of one percent of patients ever become addicts. 99.5% can't addict. Something else Finder got wrong is that the pain patient on the non-existent "Oxydone" isn't an addict. He may have been dependent, but that is not addiction. And Opioids work for chronic pain for untold numbers of people. They don't get high, they get pain relief. It is a shame that Finder found it necessary to perpetuate the myths about opioids that add fuel to the fire that pain patients are addicts. It is a shame that Finder found it necessary to write such a story instead of doing his research to find that it's not the pills that cause the addiction, but the gene. If you don't have the gene, you can't addict.
As a pain patient I thought Finder had gone off the deep end with opiophobia of the day and decided not to read it, then, since I enjoy Finder's books, I thought I'd read it to give him a fair chance - hoping that just maybe Finder's character would understand all of the above before the story was over. I was deeply disappointed. Again, Finder just added fuel to the flames of doctors denying pain patients of all kinds the serious pain relievers they need for fear of them becoming addicted when they have been used safely when used as prescribed for the better part of a century. It's not the prescriptions causing the "opioid crisis" or deaths. It's the illicit fentanyl coming over the southern border. I wish Finder had written this from the perspective of patients who are being abused in ERs all across this country. The big scam nowadays is that people are getting anti-psychotics like Haldol in ERs instead of pain relievers - without being told what they are being given. Sick. That might just be the last Finder novel I ever read.
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