yup. Things are changing in the medical community in the management of acute pain.
pretty good article, written in 2014......legislature has been introduced since and again recommended new standards for rx pain analgesics
http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/blog/why-doctors-treat-patients-as-drug-addicts/
Fact: Doctors want to help people.
Fact: Some people take advantage of doctors.
A doctor in Oregon shares this case: “I had an old man with cancer. He kept complaining of pain as I was increasing his opiate pain medication, OxyContin. I was at, I forget, about 40 mg four times a day or some fairly substantial dose. I ran a urine drug test. Negative for oxycodone, which was what I was giving him. Turns out his caregiver, who was the old man’s son, by the way, was stealing every single narcotic pill I was prescribing and selling it. OxyContin is a dollar a mg on the street. So, the scumbag son, stealing his cancer-ridden father’s pain medicines, was clearing $40 a pill, 4 times daily, 365 days a year . . . 40 x 4 x 365 = $58,400. . . Potential of nearly 60 grand a year doing this to his father. And yes, I called the police and adult protective services.”
Fact: Oregon is #1 in the nation for non-medical abuse of prescription painkillers.
Fact: Oregon is #1 in the nation for non-medical abuse of prescription painkillers.
Oregon is a progressive state. We’ve been on the forefront of compassionate use of pain medication. We were the first state to decriminalize marijuana and among the first to allow its use for medical purposes. Oregon was the first to legalize physician-assisted suicide and to require a prescription for pseudoephedrine to decrease meth production.
“But why are we #1 for abuse of painkillers?” I asked at a mandatory course I attended on the safe use of opioid pain medication. I learned that being so compassionate with prescription painkillers can backfire. Sometimes a doctor’s compassion is met by indifference, manipulation, and lies. After these experiences, even the most caring doctors start to distrust patients.
Leila, a patient, shares: “I was brought into the ER by ambulance after a car accident. I had been left on the backboard for five hours, and I [previously] had major back surgery. I was in so much back pain that I was crying. I was only treated for whiplash. The next day, as I was screaming in pain, my husband took me back to the ER, where I was treated as a drug addict and told I couldn’t get anything for my pain.”
Fact: Some patients need pain medication.
Fact: The U.S. is 4.6% of the world’s population, yet we consume 80% of opioid painkillers. And we’re still in pain.Lots of Leilas receive inadequate pain therapy. While lots of scam artists make a living off prescription painkillers.
Anyone have a quick and easy solution
Pamela Wible, M.D., is a family physician in Eugene, Oregon.
This is no longer your folks telling you not to smoke dope. Young people these days are offered some serious drugs. Heroin and meth are ultra cheap and big pharma has made a mint creating street drugs users because of new laws and regulations. It is really scary that once addicted with no other choice to go to the streets people are selling fake products made with fentanyll. If you had money and a straight connect with good heroin it wouldnt be that much of a problem besudes addiction which there are plenty of functioning addicts. These overdoses are largely because of variance of strength and what they are cutting with
you two guys are idiots,...if your not going to do anything about it then don't comment on it,maybe you should be pushing daiseys,
nobody said anything like a citizens arrest,let the police do it,but if you don't care then be quiet
i'm done with this subject and i could careless who dies from doing herion,if dumb enough to do it then you deserve what you get
nobody said anything like a citizens arrest,let the police do it,but if you don't care then be quiet
i'm done with this subject and i could careless who dies from doing herion,if dumb enough to do it then you deserve what you get
You are saying to drop a dime on drug dealers. Not a smart move especially if you have no skin in the game and the cops aren't telling you to do so. Do you have any idea what happens to snitches? The cartel like s to cut off limbs and send em to family members while the rest of you is decomposing in a barrell of acid.
Highlarious
Nope.
but, in your thinking you're automatically a "pot head" if you burn a doobie every so often? So, a 1-2 beer Happy Hour once a week person is also an alcoholic?
