Oxycontin stops physical pain and waterboarding succeeds via the need to stop psychological pain.
Obviously, if a person is not in a considerable amount of pain, then the need for the use of strong painkillers will become questionable.
So for both topics, OxyContin and Waterboarding, making the pain stop is a common thread.
Being a cold blooded sadist and denying the medicine so that the patient won't become addicted to non existent highs is (if my source is correct) not exactly the actions of a conservative Christian. It seems to be more like the modus operandi of a sadist, but if it can be used to win elections why should that stop a politician from playing with a common misconception?
Doing all the journalistic digging to find the sustaining information buried deep in medical publications and scholastic research papers would be a daunting task. If a publication, such as Nation magazine, were to authorize an assignment for a paid article that would make the task seem less daunting and much more appealing.
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