The Criminal Politics of Pain

The central fact seems to be the one the CDC highlighted a while back: there's no good research showing that opiod pain medications help, even with pain, over the longer term (over 30 days, say.)

That's my experience: we don't have accurate memories for exact quantities of pain, but I'm "fortunate" enough to have an excellent litmus test: whether I can get to sleep within two hours. By that measure opiods have no positive effects for me that last more than 30 days. Zero.

Just an aside, I had to look up what "2S+LGBQT" was. When are we going to start adding an 'F,' to make sure we don't exclude furries? It sounds far-fetched but I've seen people include a 'K,' for 'kink'. Don't forget allies, nonbinary, intersex, asexual, pansexual, demisexual, and 50 other things I can't remember. I just think of the alphabet soup crowd now.

It seems like the LGB's are slowly being crowded out by other groups that distract from and derail their issues.

(I'm sure I'll get flagged for this shortly.)