VICE VIDEO Maine has one of the highest overdose rates in the country, with a record 378 deaths in 2016. And the state has responded aggressively, by passing one of the nation’s strictest laws on prescribing opioids. It caps most patients at 100 milligrams of morphine, or its equivalent, per day. But the law has…
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WHY HUMAN SUFFERING SHOULD BROTHER YOU
October 23, 2017 By Margaret Aranda, MD, Columnist Patients go to doctors when they have pain and doctors can give them opioid medication to relieve that pain. That should not bother you, because it is a decision made between the physician and the patient. No doctor has the right to strip a patient of dignity…
Most Authentic Thing About Us
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ~Ben Okri
Suffering is Traumatic, 08/25/15
“Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.” ~Rob Bell
The Story Inside You
“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written – behind your silence and your suffering.” – Anne Rice
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