Actually, the RCC's position would probably be something akin to "feeling pain brings us closer to being like Jesus" or some other such nonsense.
I mean, after all, that was Mother Theresa's outlook (which is why so many suffered under her "care" in terrible conditions - despite her organization being extremely well funded. Mind you, though, that when it came time for her care, flying out to receive proper medical treatment in a first-world country was paramount).
To the contrary, to quote Nixon's aide (Nixon having started the war on drugs):
“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
I mean, after all, that was Mother Theresa's outlook (which is why so many suffered under her "care" in terrible conditions - despite her organization being extremely well funded. Mind you, though, that when it came time for her care, flying out to receive proper medical treatment in a first-world country was paramount).