kaz i live in japan if a doctor feels you are breaking the law we dont have doctor patient confidentiality if they feel you will break the law again they are required to report it to the police much like in america if you have a gun shot wound or a child has obvious signs of child abuse they legally have to report it.i know its seems like i can understand why for all of those reasons but yes many thousands of people die each year because they wont see a doctor after being honeysuckle or have a child treated after they feel down stairs just because they fear the police ,the same here but drug abuse gets reported also ,drug laws are very tight here.
i knew a girl that was a friend of my husbands who use to do drugs here and she became pregnant but went off them to deliver the baby,afterwards she used again one night when her baby was 4 monthes old,she was hallucinateing and she called basically 911 (here its 119) and told them that she felt like she was going to throw her baby out the window ,(happens alot in japan)well she hadent she was high the baby was crying she was stressing not sure what was going on,a ambulance came the baby was treated ,there was nothing wrong with baby ,her parents came to pick her up as she wasent that coherent.the police were called though and even though the doctor said the child showed no signs of abuse ,they arrested her on suspicion of child abuse pending a investigation.she spent the next year and a half in jail waiting while the police built a case against her,when she finally got to court she won and was realeased but her son was now 2 years old ,she last saw him at 4 monthes.
im not saying she is a good person but i also know she is always looney says wierd stuff her brain cells are fried but she wouldnt hurt the baby i think she was afraid she would so thats why she called she just couldnt say the right words, but i do feel the police over step things here sometimes and make it even harder for people who need help to get it for fear of imprisonment.
as for me i actually may be takeing something like you kaz , i have a herniated disc in my spine and a herniated stocmach wall so hernias on both sides and wear a medical corset all day (its quite painful ) i use to take so much voltaren 25mg x2 and hypen 200mg every 6 hours but i was getting stomach ulcers and the pain wasent being handeled the doctors switched me over to lepetan .4mg every 12 hours plus i could still have voltaren pill if it needed the boost,lepetan is a synthetic moraphine he said, not as addictive and the only out patient thing they could give me its what cancer patients get here. when i 1st went on it last year i did nothing but sleep ,wake up for 2-3 hours take a dose and back to bed the 1st month ,if i ate i vomited but i also wasent hungry ,one month later i wa finally adjusted to the pain meds and felt great on top of loseing 8 kilos in one month,i have been on them ever since but they only worked great for the 1st 4 monthes then i got to where i take them every 8 hours and i still have pain,i was also very happy for a short period of time when i 1st started ,it felt like a antidepressant and pain killers and diet med all in one. but i have built up tolerence and suddenly had a crash into depression as the pain killers have started to work less and less .the active ingrediant is buprenorphine hydrochloride and its a suppository not fun but bypasses the stomach so no ulcers and almost instant relief in less than 15 minutes .i went off SSRI for 6 monthes before i started useing lepetan. and it was wonderful once i woke up but he honeymonn phase is over and doctor thinks i should stop them one time ,clean out and start again , i just cant stand the physical pain on top of the emotional pain so its scarey .anyway not sure if my this makes sense since i ramble when my head is like this ,sorry