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Is it just me, or do the pain management specialists and clinics seem like a legal way around giving people ocycontin and roxycodone, etc? Why is it doctors can still practice these kinds of businesses, with all the illegal street sales and ODing happening?
Is it just me, or do the pain management specialists and clinics seem like a legal way around giving people ocycontin and roxycodone, etc? Why is it doctors can still practice these kinds of businesses, with all the illegal street sales and ODing happening?
Such drugs have their place. People suffering from chronic painful conditions that don't respond to treatment deserve relief. Don't worry, the relief isn't that much, they still suffer, if that makes you feel any better.
Access to pain medicine through legal channels is extremely regulated. Doctors giving perscriptions for pain relief to people suffering from terminal cancer, severe arthritis, injuries that won't heal, etc, are not feeding the illegal drug industry. There's nothing enobling about needless suffering.
Such drugs have their place. People suffering from chronic painful conditions that don't respond to treatment deserve relief. Don't worry, the relief isn't that much, they still suffer, if that makes you feel any better.
Access to pain medicine through legal channels is extremely regulated. Doctors giving perscriptions for pain relief to people suffering from terminal cancer, severe arthritis, injuries that won't heal, etc, are not feeding the illegal drug industry. There's nothing enobling about needless suffering.
You are right.
The problem is, people who do not have medical problems do not understand what it is like to have medical problems. They aren't being mean, it's a lack of understanding, that's all.
Is it just me, or do the pain management specialists and clinics seem like a legal way around giving people ocycontin and roxycodone, etc? Why is it doctors can still practice these kinds of businesses, with all the illegal street sales and ODing happening?
Doctors have a legal right to prescribe pain medications, they are DEA registered and are required to maintain complete and accurate inventories and records of all transactions involving controlled substances
Narcotics schedule II like mentioned by you Oxycodone (Oxycontin) written on multiple copy (triplicate) prescription are controlled and monitored. No prescription for a controlled substance in schedule II may be refilled.
Pharmacies electronically transmit prescription information to the DPS. The information is used by licensing boards to identify doctors, dentists, and/or pharmacists who may be using them inappropriately. In addition, the DPS can identify potential abusers much more quickly and stop any abuse, misuse, or diversion of those drugs.
Those narcotics are necessary to thread severe acute pain in terminally ill cancer patients, patients infected with HIV, and in pallative care.
They are used for pain management to reduce chronic pain, especially the pain associated with severe injuries, fractures, and cancer, for postoperative pain and when a continuous, around-the-clock analgesic is needed for an extended period of time.
I have a friend whose husband has serious back pain from being in a car accident. He's been going to a pain management center. They have been giving him cortisone shots for a couple of years and now HE has been recently diagnosed with osteoporsis (please forgive my spelling errors).
So then where are the people who sell these drugs on the street getting them? They have to be coming from somewhere, and NPR had a great special about it a couple weeks back, about there being crack downs and sophistications to alleviate the abuse that the system receives by people who get the drugs to resell.
Another story: Years ago my husband hurt his back on the job. He went through workmens comp. It was a very difficult time. The doctors were incompetent and he was misdiagnosed a couple times. One time the great doctor said he was missing part of his vertebra (which he wasn't).
Well, anyway they sent him to a pain specialist for a cortisone shot. He refused treatment, because he was pretty sure the "doctor" was taking his own medications.
Yep;the clincic that issue pain medicines are getting busted evryday for unreglated distribution. Its become a distributrs to alot that have no pain that needs controlling.
One thing is a strict regulation regarding ordering/prescription but another thing is the actual dispensing to the patient.
Many patients critically ill, on the hospice, palliative care etc. are not alert enough to remember when and if they received the pain pill from the nurses. In that point is fairly easy to sign in that the medication was given to the patient, and put it in the own scrub pocket.
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