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HOUSE OF PAIN

Ever since I was 9 years old, I have loved rock music. I was the kid your mother warned you about. I had a mirrored ball in my bedroom, strobe and police car lights that I would turn on at night and listen to my favorite bands. I had a wall for all of my pictures of KISS. In fact, not one inch of wall could be seen as Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley and their larger than life posters were taped to my wall.

I had another wall for all of the other bands, including some new wave bands.

At my high school, I formed a group called the “Rock On” Club.

We were a bunch of Rock and Roll lovers who were burned out on disco albums and wanted to form an Anti Disco Club in high school.

We were an anti-jock, anti-cowboy, pro-punk, pro-heavy metal pro-new wave club that would get in fights when we played our Led Zeppelin, KISS, Pink Floyd, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, and Black Sabbath albums at school functions.

We also introduced the school to DEVO and the B-52’s. Nobody liked them then. So we would cut our hair short, wear strange glasses and thin ties, and alienate the student body.

While DEVO, The Police, the B-52’s were considered punk rock back then, they slowly were tolerated and everyone at the time would wear some sort of KISS make up when it was dress up days at school.

While my taste in music has diversified over the years, I still have my childhood fondness for KISS.

Today, however, I am very disappointed in what Gene Simmons said today about Prince.

Though the cause of Prince’s untimely death has yet to be confirmed by officials investigating the case Gene Simmons decided to shoot his mouth off regarding addiction. Simmons commented on the difference between what happened to David Bowie and what appears to have happened to other rock stars: “Bowie was the most tragic of all because it was real sickness, all the other ones were a choice.”

He then went on to target Prince.

“His drugs killed him what do you think, he died from a cold? I think Prince was heads, hands and feet above all the rest of them. I thought he left [Michael] Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don’t kid yourself, that’s what he did. Slowly, I’ll grant you… but that’s what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.”

Is drug addiction a moral failing or just another way to cull us?

Gene also made clear that he could critique Prince’s reported issues because, he says that he has never been high or drunk in his life.

Even as a KISS fan, I have to take issue with what Simmons has said. Even Paul Stanley, his co-songwriter, was embarrassed by Gene’s remarks.

I have spoken before about pain and the conspiracy against the American people to keep them sick, in pain and in some cases addicted. It is a shame that they will eventually vilify Prince and use him as an example of the dangers of opioid addiction.

Prince was not addicted to pain medication. Prince had a medical condition – chronic pain, which is criminally under-treated.

There’s a huge reluctance in general of physicians to prescribe adequate medication for people who really are in pain and have a very low risk of becoming addicted.

Truth is if you read the actual epidemiological data and the data from insurance companies and health organizations, it suggests that the vast majority of people are undertreated for their pain.

Opioids are the most effective pain relievers we now have, they are necessary however we are seeing a frightening trend and that is people who are now vilifying people who are found to have pain killers in their bodies when they die.

The federal government is asking physicians across the country to reconsider the way they’ve been treating pain for two decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the first federal guidelines for doctors prescribing opioids, laying out considerations that they should follow in order to curb the use of such medication.

The CDC wants physicians to stop defaulting to opioids and begin by considering other treatments for pain, such as over-the-counter medication. In cases that merit the use of opioids after other options have been considered, it recommends that doctors start with a low dosage and, if necessary, increase the amount incrementally. But the guidelines question the efficacy of long-term opioid treatment. If the CDC continues to harass prescribers we may see a time where Opioids will only be prescribed in worst-case scenarios involving pain, such as cancer treatment and end-of-life care.

Chronic pain is a problem in America. Pain is still the condition that we treat by telling its sufferers to just “suck it up,” or “maintain a stiff upper lip,” or to stop acting like a “wuss.” And yet, when someone dies from complications of the disease — for that is what chronic pain is we react with shock and pity and anger that the person died from a drug overdose.

It can be argued that the pain is killing people, as it needs to be suppressed and doctors are now forced to under-prescribe what is needed to be pain free.

Statistically we are learning that pain is becoming undertreated now and many people abusing low doses, taking more without asking the doctor if it is safe, some are even using heroin.

Multiple reports mention that Prince had suffered from years with pain in his hips due to injuries racked up during his performances. His body wracked with pain, Prince relied on opiate pain medications to provide him some relief.

As early as 2009, reports surfaced that Prince was in chronic, debilitating pain. His friends reported that he was taking pain medication to try to control the constant, excruciating pain from damaged hips.

Surgeries can fail to repair the issues that trigger intense pain. And they fail often. In medical conditions in which pain has been long-standing, scientific evidence suggests that the brain’s pain receptors “short out.” After a while, regardless of even whether the painful part of the body has been removed, as in amputations, the brain’s pain receptors continue to process signals that the body is under attack. Phantom limbs can cause severe pain. It does not make the pain fake. It is the brain that feels pain. And the brain can continue to experience pain even after surgery has been performed.

And yet, despite the evidence that Prince was being given Percocet for documented pain, the media narrative has shifted to a story in which Prince died of an overdose. An overdose is a self-inflicted wound. It’s a moral judgment.

I have always been critical of the media saying that he “overdosed” because when the public hears this, they immediately rush to judgment. They think that he committed suicide, or that he was a drugged out shell, or some drooling low life.

We know that Prince was not at all like that. We hear all of the cliché’s “he was so talented and loved life why did he do this” or “she was so beautiful, such a voice and yet drugs were her demons.”

The sad thing is that the media fails to say how easy it is to go into liver failure after a person has ingested 4000 to 6000 milligrams of acetaminophen in a day. Some people overdose on the Tylenol, because they are unaware that not only are they taking an Opiate, they are also taking Tylenol, and there are other things you may take with it that have Tylenol in them.

Celebrities like Anna Nicole Smith and Heath Ledger were found dead with narcotics combinations in their bodies; however both also had taken a dose of Nyquil or Theraflu which caused liver failure. Both contained heavy amounts of acetaminophen and doxylamine.

Their deaths were an accident that can happen to anyone.

Ledger and Anna Nicole died of accidental combined drug intoxication but the media reported he overdosed on drugs that depressed the central nervous system, they even implied that he got them illegally.

That wasn’t a choice—it was an accident.

Chronic pain management requires, in most cases, the taking of strong, often-opiate based medications. ANY patient who takes these drugs on a daily basis will become “physically dependent” in a short time. Physical dependence is not addiction. Diabetics are physically dependent on insulin, and yet we do not call insulin an addictive drug. Without it, diabetics would die.

Stopping pain medication that has been used for chronic pain can kill you if it’s done abruptly. Under a doctor’s care, a change in pain medication is handled on a strict schedule in which the body is weaned off one drug in order to either start a new medication, or to determine whether the body is reacting in a different way to the condition causing the pain.

Before the media narrative of the tortured genius who abused drugs becomes part of Prince’s eulogy in the court of public opinion, there needs to be a pushback. Chronic pain patients should step forward and speak of their own experiences of living with the condition, and the constant barriers that are being thrown up to treatment.

The media has successfully demonized these pain killers and when a celebrity is found dead from an overdose we are often told that they were taking hydrocodone, Percocet or Lortab.

Immediately, we think that this has killed them when in reality it is the pain that kills people.

Now it may not be all that simplistic but it seems that the demonizing of those is pain is quite simply put the cornerstone of the police state and part of the Orwellian nightmare.

In the book 1984, George Orwell wrote, “Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

When you have all the money in the world, and all of the power you can have, what is left to get? Perhaps it is the souls of the people. Those in control don’t need more money; they obviously can steal it and print it. They don’t care about your health, they want to keep you sick and in pain.

The ramifications of controlling pain are huge in scope. Every organism on this planet responds to pain. No Police State can exist without the ability to give out pain in all forms. The tortures we read about and criticize are academic and in the same way the CIA or any other black ops group tortures enemy combatants we also suffer a post traumatic stress response to this type of behavior.

It is the threat of pain and torture that deep down, frightens us. We can put up a good front for courage. We can say “better them than us” but the truth is we are them. They are us.

Shocks to the system create cognitive crisis and pain. Those who control pain control the populace. You see, pain is what is controlling us and those who have the power to relieve the pain are also those who have the power to inflict it.

We have all seen the rat in the experiment where he presses the bar in order to get a jolt to the pleasure centers of his brain. He will do it so much he falls limp from exhaustion. He runs around madly in his wheel in order to avoid any pain that is being given him by the controllers.

The experiments evolve where there is no longer anything provided to take away his pain. After a while the rodent learns to live with his pain and also awaits his next blow. This is known as “learned helplessness.” Soon, the rat becomes fearful, and mean. He eventually dies.

This is a method of culling the populace as new restrictions given to doctors will actually increase the number of suicide deaths of people who suffer chronic pain.

Imagine for a moment having to plan your life having to remember make a doctor’s appointment each and every month, for a urine test, a pill count and an interrogation.

Think of planning your life around refill dates, days when you may need more or less of the medication to function and wondering, constantly, if tomorrow will be a good day or a bad day. Think of not being able to go on vacation and enjoy it, or of going and having to plan the trip upon when you will need a refill. Think of these things and consider how you would feel.

People with legitimate chronic pain issues need support and care; now they are being forced to make their lives more difficult and being treated like criminals.

In the case of Prince, he is already being pushed into the same group as Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They abused drugs and it led to their deaths.

If I were to have a moment with my Rock idol Gene Simmons, I would sit him down and tell him that it was chronic pain that killed Prince. I would also tell him there are many people who have lost loved ones to chronic pain and how they always have to struggle to get the right treatment to feel better and live productive lives.

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    • Miss M

      Chronic pain sufferer here–You did an excellent assessment–Thank you!

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