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[drusso]

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[lonelobo]

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Guess it is better than this one

 

[244913]

These are well done

 

[drusso]

This Is Your Hand on Opioids: Trump's 'Very Bad Commercials' Rely on Dishonest and Pernicious Scare Tactics

"Two of the four self-maimers (Amy and Joe) say they got hooked on pills that were prescribed for pain, suggesting that opioid addiction begins that way something like 50 percent of the time. But that scenario is actually pretty rare. Nonmedical users generally do not get opioids through prescriptions written for them, and people who become addicted to pain pills typically use a variety of drugs and have histories of substance abuse. In a 2007 study of people entering treatment for addiction, 78 percent of the OxyContin users "reported that the drug had not been prescribed to them for any medical reason." Almost all of them used other drugs in addition to OxyContin, and three-quarters of them had previously been treated for substance abuse."

 

[244913]

This Is Your Hand on Opioids: Trump's 'Very Bad Commercials' Rely on Dishonest and Pernicious Scare Tactics

"Two of the four self-maimers (Amy and Joe) say they got hooked on pills that were prescribed for pain, suggesting that opioid addiction begins that way something like 50 percent of the time. But that scenario is actually pretty rare. Nonmedical users generally do not get opioids through prescriptions written for them, and people who become addicted to pain pills typically use a variety of drugs and have histories of substance abuse. In a 2007 study of people entering treatment for addiction, 78 percent of the OxyContin users "reported that the drug had not been prescribed to them for any medical reason." Almost all of them used other drugs in addition to OxyContin, and three-quarters of them had previously been treated for substance abuse."

Where are they getting the pills if they aren't prescribed for any medical reason?

 

[lobelsteve]

Where are they getting the pills if they aren't prescribed for any medical reason?

If you are a pain doctor how is it that you can't answer this question? 75% of illicit prescription drugs come from family or friends. Have you not seen the news or read a journal in the last 10 years?

 

[244913]

If you are a pain doctor how is it that you can't answer this question? 75% of illicit prescription drugs come from family or friends. Have you not seen the news or read a journal in the last 10 years?

I should have used the sarcasm font. Of course I know where they get the meds- from pills diverted every day from every pain clinic across the land. It's about time we reduced the supply.

 

[lobelsteve]

I should have used the sarcasm font. Of course I know where they get the meds- from pills diverted every day from every pain clinic across the land. It's about time we reduced the supply.

Rather than work on addiction treatment we should just force these people to heroin and Street Fentanyl. So far that does not appear to be working well. If a diction is a disease and pain is not the same disease maybe they should be treated differently. It's the person and not the drug.

 

[Ducttape]

Rather than work on addiction treatment we should just force these people to heroin and Street Fentanyl. So far that does not appear to be working well. If a diction is a disease and pain is not the same disease maybe they should be treated differently. It's the person and not the drug.

if you choose to be a drug dealer, that's your business. continuing to prescribe opioids to everyone increases the risk of diversion.

and unfortunately, what we say or do affects what PCPs do, and encouraging opioid prescribing encourages increased supply.



it is not just the person. without the drug, there is no tragic effects due to addiction.

 

[drusso]

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[drusso]

Is the assertion that the government is chasing the wrong opioid crisis with unproven assumptions justified?
Have policies to reduce opioid RX failed?

Do Alternatives to Opioids Really Exist?

"Government policy is chasing the wrong crisis with unproven assumptions. Clearly, “legislating away” prescription opioids for legitimate patients with pain seems far easier than stemming the flow of illicit fentanyl and its analogues coming from China and other nations.

Demographics of addiction versus chronic pain reveal that the typical addict at initiation of abuse is an adolescent or early-20s male with a history of unemployment, chronic family trauma and often mental health issues. This population is medically and psychologically underserved. The typical pain patient is a female in her 40s or older (by a female/male ratio of 60/40 or higher) with a history of underlying medical disorders. Among women whose lives are stable enough to see a doctor for treatment, development of Opioid Use Disorder is statistically quite uncommon.

The demographics clearly don’t work. Attempts to mitigate America’s opioid situation by restricting prescriptions have clearly failed, resulting in unnecessary suffering among chronic and acute post-operative pain patients. Further over-regulation of doctors who prescribe opioids will only succeed in driving more physicians out of pain management and more patients into medical decline, disability and death by suicide. It is inarguable that such deaths are now occurring on a large scale, particularly among veterans."

 

[244913]

Pretty biased sources, as usual. A professional patient advocate and a PhD researcher, neither of whom has a DEA license, sees chronic pain patients in a clinical setting, has to deal with litigation, regulation and predatory Attorneys General.

I invite them to go to med school, make it through residency and a pain fellowship and then hang a shingle with their "heartfelt" approach. Talk is cheap.

 

[Ducttape]

A submitted op/ed is being used as medical information...

Might as well ask the Big Pharma opioid msnufacturers their “nonbiased” “medical” opinion.

Ignored in all this justification are facts completely glossed over. In their haste to blame OD deaths on “other” individuals, they neglect to mention that the very reason pills were accessible in the first place for them to abuse their friends and family’s is because of overprescribing and diversion.

As I have also mentioned, the public impression that opioids should be readily available is a deadly misconception. They quote a brutish study- yet the Brits do not overprescribe the way we do. Saying that British postop patients don’t get addicted is not applicable to the US because they do not get the mass quantities American patients Expect and demand post op.