# I'm so frustrated with my parent's medication situation.

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**Created:** [September 12, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-frustrated-with-my-parents-medication-situation/668658 "2013-09-12T13:50:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-frustrated-with-my-parents-medication-situation/668658/21 "2013-09-12T19:05:33Z")

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Okay, since you’re clearly unable to defend what you’ve said, let’s play spot the differences, “big guy”:

> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> I’m really surprised that no one has come along to argue that their cousin was a hydrocodone junkie and therefore your parents are probably junkies too, and it’s right that they should have to suffer.

Compare that bit of nonsense to the following:

> [@How do I convince my doctor to renew the Vicodin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-convince-my-doctor-to-renew-the-vicodin/629852/3):
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> Because it’s an addictive narcotic.

> [@How do I convince my doctor to renew the Vicodin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-convince-my-doctor-to-renew-the-vicodin/629852/9):
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> Well, one of the problems (as others have mentioned) is that your pain is chronic. A lot of doctors feel that they are actually doing you a disservice to prescribe something so addictive for chronic pain, seeing as once you get used to Vicodin (or any other opiate) it is literally hell to get off of. Then you will not only have terrible knee pain, you’ll also have terrible withdrawal. I personally wish I’d never, ever seen or heard of any kind of opiate.

> [@How do I convince my doctor to renew the Vicodin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-convince-my-doctor-to-renew-the-vicodin/629852/13):
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> Other than the horrible effects of narcotic addiction.

> [@How do I convince my doctor to renew the Vicodin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-convince-my-doctor-to-renew-the-vicodin/629852/19):
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> Prescription pain killers are now the most pervasive addiction problem in most if not all of the country. You do know that don’t you? A lot of doctors hand out addictive pain medication like its candy. You do know that don’t you? The effects of addiction to such medication is horrendous. You do know that don’t you?
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> I’m not saying that there is no place for pain killers and opiates. There obviously is a place. But they are tremendously over perscribed. I would trust a doctor who was reluctant to perscribe pain killers to one who writes out a script whenever anyone asks for it.

None of those quotes are anywhere close to what you said in your first post. They don’t even _imply_ what you said in your first post. None of them contain any anecdotes, nor do they project anything onto the people they are responding to. The fact that you think they support you comes across as a hilarious joke to anyone reading along.

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