Posted on 01/18/2017 9:30:00 AM PST by Morgana
SLINGERLANDS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Reports claim addicts have begun hurting their pets to get ahold of a pain killer given to pets with arthritis.
Veterinarians at The Animal Hospital in Slingerlands said they don’t carry the drug Tramadol in-house because they’re worried addicts will use it for themselves instead of their pets.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration declared Tramadol a controlled substance three years ago. Since then, the commonly used pain medication for pets with arthritis became available only as a prescription at pharmacies.
“There’s unfortunately always the risk of abuse with any of these medications, and it’s a sad reality we have to be aware of,” veterinarian Lexi Becker said.
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I would do illegal, unspeakable things to someone who laid a finger on one of my God given fur friends, then bury them in the woods, and sit down to have a coke, a cookie and smile.
I recently had to go to the ER to rule out a stroke (it is Bell's palsy). While laying on my gurney in the ER, a patient came in and started shouting, "I'm in pain! I need drugs! I need something for the pain!" over and over again. He was bugging me and I was in a bad enough mood for having no sleep there for 24 hrs. and no appropriate food for over 20 hours. I came this close to going over to him and telling him straight up, "You don't shut up, I'm gonna give you a REASON to need pain killing drugs!" Just before I was going to swing my legs over the side of the gurney to do just that, his dr. came and called him out. Told him he'd gotten 20 previous pain management referrals and had followed up on none of them. The dr. got security to toss this bum out.
Seems there's also a racket of people going from ER to ER claiming they're in pain and need pain meds. They had this guy's number. Fortunately, no innocent animals had to be hurt for this idiot to be thrown out.
Good heavens!!!
I have a few drug allergies. One of which is codeine. Recently found out can’t have N 2O.
After your story I would not worry at all if my next drug allergy turned out to be morphine.
Thank you shadow. She was like none other. I’d always had big dogs growing up and my wife liked to say that this little nugget had me wrapped around her little paw. She was right.
My (allergic to everything with other issues to boot) Shepherd had Tramadol, amongst a million other meds, some permanent, some on a trial basis. I probably still have some of that in our storage now several years after her death (many, many unused drugs left from her).
Tramadol?
Like William S Burroughs declared about Demerol in his cameo in Drugstore Cowboy
“Trash”
Tramadol is sort of throwaway in the veterinary world. They prescribed as much as I needed for my Lab when he was being treated for cancer. It was only somewhat effective, sort of a first line thing. Metacam did him a lot more good, but potential side effects were scary. I didn’t want to kill him trying to help him and thank god he reacted well to it. Some dogs don’t and bleed out.
You better not need major surgery
N2O is far and away the most commonly used Deep anesthesia gas
I guess there must be substitutes
Usually it starts with a cocktail injection of morphine and scopalomine and Valium or Xanax or pentobarbital
Then a rising drip of Diprovan....for knockout
Then the nitrous to keep you under
When I was teaching, [in a very stressful inner city school] we had a colleague who was *always on the edge of losing it*; in other words, she had poor discipline w/ her kids and they were out of control, most of the time.
She took what she she called her *doggie downers*; pills she took that were prescribed for her dog, to relieve his separation anxiety. Weird times.
I cannot read this-—just the title drives me nuts.
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If anybody ever hurt one of my dogs, they wouldn’t have to worry about any hospital bills.
Tramadol injections are i hear somewhat effective
It’s been pimped as a non euphoria pain reliever
Although it does have some euphoria at higher dosage
It’s pretty dangerous interactive with alcohol I hear
I had one script once for my neck and it sat in my cupboard forever
It just wasn’t very effective I think I gave it to my daughter for cramps
Just look at what hospice folks get, that’s all you need to know
Morphine or it’s stouter brother dilaudid
Or if you’re in Europe where they use legal heroin for severe pain
No offense to those who love their ultram
I’ve never given a pet pain relievers I don’t think except my horses get Bute which is an NSAID
“politicians are grandstanding to force all forms of doctors, even DVM’s, to report every controlled substance prescription”
Vets have tracked (and the records have been audited by the state, at least) for decades.
You are correct, and this will not change -— it will be an additional step. The change is that there is now an online reporting system where every controlled drug prescription will need to be entered same day. There are lots of questions including the question of DVM’s having access to their client’s HIPPA information, and how to enter animal medications in a system set up for human monitoring without a misunderstanding of exactly “who” is taking what drug.
A ping to you since I mentioned this thread.
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