There is a difference between using drugs to either get high or to get closer to God and taking prescription pain medicine aa prescribed by a doctor due to a serious physical ailment.
Those aren't the same.
I haven't been able to get out of bed for two weeks.. ive gone to the bathroom yes, with difficulty, and I've showered about 4 or 5 times in those two weeks.. but until this pain episode goes away, I won't be clean, I won't be dressed, I will lay here and cry, sometimes I'll scream because of pain.. I won't eat good food most days because i cant make anything to eat, and my husband works so i cant ask too much - frozen burritos is it.
I have a diagnosis, spent over a million dollars the first year i had this disease on doctors..its a rare disease, less 20,000 in the U.S. have it and I'm one. This isn't in my head and no amount of praying these last two decades has made it go away.. and I do love God with all I am.
So here I am, in bed... and I can't ask my doctor for anything stronger so that i can get out of bed and shower, because someone somewhere in Washington determined that i dont need anything stronger..because there is an "opioid epidemic" somewhere. ..
It's not witchcraft to say a sick person should be able to have their pain lessened to the point they can feed themselves and bathe when they need it.
Im not possessed or worshipping demons. I'm sick. Believe it or not there are sick people who don't die..and for us, "natural healing" is worthless.
And no, I dont want sympathy... it's a point. People in real pain do exist and most people wouldnt do this to their dogs.