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This is as much a push for government control as it is for anything else -— and is being pushed in most states right now. Faced with an opiod epidemic, politicians are grandstanding to force all forms of doctors, even DVM’s, to report every controlled substance prescription into a government database that tracks each individual patient’s use of all controlled substances. The reality is, the drugs are coming across the border and/or are being produced and sold by the billions by drug companies that are pushing and rewarding MD’s for prescribing them to all their patients.

People hurting their pets to get drugs is just one of their invented scenarios. It came up at a meeting here in Texas when LTC Allen West suggested he could take his bulldog to a few DVM’s on a Saturday and have a big party with the drugs that night. How offensive -— and totally wrong!!! Do they think we DVM’s are completely stupid???

So by the time I take a history, do an exam, x-ray, maybe bloodwork, ultrasound, and/or whatever else I might need to diagnose the problem, those dog-size-dose of pills is going to be pretty expensive. Plus, I’m not going to just treat an animal’s pain without fixing the injury -— clean, suture, wrap, splint, whatever it takes. I guess they think they can just wander in and say “my dog hurt his leg”, ask for tramadol, and then check out with pills in hand. Have you ever had that experience with ANY kind of doctor???

The problem is the pill producers and the pill doctors who push oxycodone, hydrocodone, and tramadol out like candy. I don’t think I ever go to the VA Hospital that they don’t offer me some -— which is probably why so many Veterans are homeless drug addicts out on the streets. And even the PA at the local clinic wanted to send me home on oxycodone for a muscle sprain last week for no good reason. It hurt bad enough that two aspirin or one tylenol took care of it just fine!!!