There’s a big difference between the actions the people should be held accountable for and generalising that to the wider nhs and care of those that are dying as Pullicino is arguing.https://twitter.com/c7rky/status/1010154493521035264 …
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Replying to @drchriskane
Happy to agree with you on that one. What this does show is that the potential for abuse exists. That should provoke checks and the creation of safeguards imho, but given my experience in another similar area, I shan't be holding my breath tbh.
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Replying to @C7RKY
But abuse for ANY medication exists. We pick on opioids because there’s cultural and spiritual weight given to them.
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Replying to @drchriskane
Cultural and spiritual weight? That's not something I've heard said before. Those relatives I've seen discussing this appear more concerned by a medical imposition they perceive as capable of ending their loved one's life (rightly/wrongly). The type of drug used being secondary.
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Replying to @C7RKY
Again separating gosport (where I agree with you) from the wider point the original article you quoted at the start of the thread the reason it so easily turns into a discussion about death in general is that fear opioids is already in the public psyche. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18073222/?i=34&from=fear%20opioids%20palliative …
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Replying to @drchriskane
You may well be right re opioid fear (but I'd hope to find substantially higher quality evidence than that decidedly flimsy looking trial if proving it ever mattered, tbh). Gosport may not prove to be as isolated a case as we all wish tho. It's not the only source of such tales.
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Replying to @C7RKY
Here’s a better one that I was struggling to find on my iPhone earlier! Qualitative research is by far the best way of looking at this issue. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392409007313 …
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Far better - thank you. :)
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