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I thought this interesting history. I was raised with Anacin, Bayer, Excedrin and didn't experience an opioid until 2010, Darvocet, and then it was removed also. This was pre and post hip replacement. Makes me wonder what I took after hysterectomy in the 80's....don't have recollection and there had to be post surgery pain.
I can't begin to tell you how many Rxs for narcs prescribed for addicts I refused to fill in my store.
Thank God Ohio has OARRS
The Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) is a tool to track the dispensing and personal furnishing of controlled prescription drugs to patients. OARRS is designed to monitor this information for suspected abuse or diversion (i.e., channeling drugs into illegal use), and can give a prescriber or pharmacist critical information regarding a patient’s controlled substance
Mr CCCC I cant fill this because you just had another one filled at CVS, and Walgreens, and WallyWorld.
"Oh no I didn't
Then why is your name, birthday and address on all of these lines for yesterday in this State Board report.
Pretty simple isn't it? I'm not trying to say the current problem is simple, but that any drug can be abused and the fault doesn't lie completely on either side.
Pretty simple isn't it? I'm not trying to say the current problem is simple, but that any drug can be abused and the fault doesn't lie completely on either side.
I think the big issue is that some chronic pain patients who are only helped my opioids are suffering big time. I know someone with ehler-Danlos for example who is being forcefully weaned down on her meds despite having over 20 surgeries in 5 years because her doctor is getting pressure. She can barely function with them let alone without. I think we have to be very careful about the slippery slope but understand they have their place.
I think the big issue is that some chronic pain patients who are only helped my opioids are suffering big time. I know someone with ehler-Danlos for example who is being forcefully weaned down on her meds despite having over 20 surgeries in 5 years because her doctor is getting pressure. She can barely function with them let alone without. I think we have to be very careful about the slippery slope but understand they have their place.
My doctor is also getting pressure from the insurance companies, which is unfortunate. I was at a perfect balance of medications, then they cut one out.
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I think the big issue is that some chronic pain patients who are only helped my opioids are suffering big time. I know someone with ehler-Danlos for example who is being forcefully weaned down on her meds despite having over 20 surgeries in 5 years because her doctor is getting pressure. She can barely function with them let alone without. I think we have to be very careful about the slippery slope but understand they have their place.
It's this pver reaction from Docs on patients like this that are driving patients to street drugs.
I thought this interesting history. I was raised with Anacin, Bayer, Excedrin and didn't experience an opioid until 2010, Darvocet, and then it was removed also. This was pre and post hip replacement. Makes me wonder what I took after hysterectomy in the 80's....don't have recollection and there had to be post surgery pain.
These drugs aren't new. Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Hydromorphone, etc...Have all been around for a long, long time, 90+ years.
Pain, and Chronic pain, are huge problems for those who suffer from it. Pursuing and developing treatments for pain is a reasonable goal. Despite what some will have you believe, bulged discs and pinched nerves aren't going to get better with essential oils and valerian root and Flax Seed oil.
OxyContin was notable because it was an extended release formulation; one didn't have to take pills every four hours for their pain and the release was slower.
Now, there certainly was gross irresponsibility on behalf of some of the drug companies.
But, the idea that a slower, controlled release of the drug was a good thing isn't at all far fetched. And, that the pills could be ground and insuflated or injected so easily was another problem, one that I don't think entirely falls on the Pharma companies.
Dr's have known about the dangers of opiates almost as long as they've been using opiates. Laudanum was abused in the old west. Morphine has been strictly regulated as long as they've been strictly regulating drugs in the country.
Addicts have been around forever, too, and not just junkies on the street. My mom remembers people trying to get demerol prescriptions all the time, long before the opiate epidemic.
It's this pver reaction from Docs on patients like this that are driving patients to street drugs.
It's a balance act
And, patients that develop a tolerance. Doc says, nope, I'm only giving you 60 pills a month...And then they're gone in three weeks, and someone has withdrawal, and pain staring at them. Not pretty.
JONOV: Well yes they've been around, I didn't know the history of all the drugs. And this was never a discussion in my family growing up. My family had pain issues and they went to their medicine cabinets.
When I went thru the knee infection and could NOT walk and pain was out of sight, I was given oxycodone before I went into PT room, but it got to the point FOR ME, that ibuprofen was just as good if not better than the oxy for my issues...I had them Stop the oxy and go with ibuprofen every 6 hrs. Plus the side effects with oxy...good grief.
I drag my feet on knee replacement surgery for many issues and one is all the pain and the drugs going back into my body and dealing with all the side effects again.
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