I guess scapegoat big pharma is successfully finding their own scapegoats!
The feds could straightforwardly address the fentanyl problem by deillegalizing opiods, allowing reputable distribution to take over. And then society could maturely deal with addiction as a personal medical problem. But I guess it's easier to keep hanging it all on personal responsibility and let that DEA/CIA gravy train continue rolling.
I don't understand this at all. Most opioids are legal prescription drugs. The problem is that they are highly addictive, so despite trying deal with addition as a "personal medical problem", which is how many opioid addicts are treated in the US, it still results in a huge increase in dead people.
> I don't understand this at all. Most opioids are legal prescription drugs.
It's pretty straightforward. "Legal prescription drugs" are drugs you're not allowed to have without permission, and doctors face prosecution for giving you permission. This doesn't really promote safe availability -- it's specifically intended to do the opposite.
This is disgusting on so many levels.
If this is true I hope they throw the book at all of them and anyone else involved as well.
As a disclaimer, you may have poor liver or kidney function which would contraindicate some of the medications I mentioned, your surgical team will make that call.
I was really annoyed when my wife’s doctor freely prescribed her oxi after her delivery even though my wife never asked for it and never showed any sign of needing it.
Having free flowing prescriptions is how we end up with so many addicts.
about 7 years ago my wife got sand in her eye - was problematic enough that we went to a local clinic. she wasn't going to go blind, but it was irritated enough that after flushing it out, it still looked... bad. and she indicated it was a bit sore, that she wanted to get home to just try to get to sleep.
The doctor there offered a prescription for percocet. We said "no, no need - we'll call if there's a problem". They handed us a prescription for... either 7 or 14 pills. we took it and didn't use it.
A few years later I ended up with extreme lower back pain. I could hardly move - was bed/chair-bound for 4 days. Had called around to see if any clinic would see me to prescribe some pain killer. NOPE. Don't want to create any addicts. Clinics all have signs on them saying 'no prescriptions for...' then a list of 4-5 things.
We were basically force-fed a prescription for something way out of line with what was necessary, then when something was necessary... not available.
Yep, just my anecdote, but it's stuck with me, mostly because I don't have that many medical interactions in the first place, so the outliers tend to stick out.
Good way to avoid getting addicted.
But I do remember that, even though I filled the prescription, I never ended up taking it. A few days of higher-dose ibuprofen (taken with food) was enough.
https://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/no-significant-diffe...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180417181101.h...
Follow your doctor’s recommendations and communicate how the pain is.
Some people need opioids for relatively minor surgery while others can get by with NSAIDS for relatively major surgery.
Either way, after an operation might as well suck it up a bit, like they did before Oxy and the likes came.
Recreational drug use can be fun but I don't think that's your prerogative here.
1. Make sure we're in agreement as to the things being done. Yes, it's been discussed multiple times, but best to be clear!
2. Ask what kind of pain killers I'll already be on when I wake up.
I can't wait for them to do this to the military black budget one day.
maybe this is reading too much into it, but might this be evidence that government health care funds are poorly managed and pay out too much, too often, asking too few questions in the process?
One of the Doctors mentioned is in Ada which is near Grand Rapids and clear across the state!
It was interesting work: we had data tapes shipped from CMS to us, we loaded the data into a Sybase database, and then used an analysis tool (which I can't recall the name of) to look for patterns of fraud - again, this was what now seems like a lifetime ago.
Is anyone currently working detecting Medicare and Medicaid fraud?
This breaks the rule about not breaking the law while breaking the law.
