Chronic pain relief – drug-users or drug-abusers?
Could you imagine a constant pain, where your only relief was to get a drug otherwise classed as illegal? Well that is what is currently happening to many families within the state of South Australia, as Chronic Pain sufferers are quite often being denied the medication to improve their quality of life. The government have placed restrictions on the powers of doctors have in order to distribute highly potent pain relieving drugs. The Betros family is just one of the families on the receiving end The Wire’s Wade Stephens spoke to Mike Betros from the Dignity for Chronic Pain Sufferers organisation, Dr Ian Buttfield – President of the International Association of Pain and Chemical Dependency, and the Betros’ family lawyer Peter Humpries, partner from Duncan Basheer Hannon