Some Truth About Rush's Problem

WEBMD | Jennifer P. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D.

[Redwood71]

Here is some information on what Rush is going through and how the system helped him get there.

http://www.jenniferschneider.com/articles/opiods.html

[Redwood71]

He is not totally free from his situation, but there are many contributing issues that spell a long row to hoe that he will be tilling for the rest of his life. I wish him well. I know what he is going through and will in the future.

[Support Free Republic]

Hi mom and dad!

[JoJo Gunn]

http://www.jenniferschneider.com/articles/opiods.html

[Lysander]

He ought to change over to medical pot.

[Plutarch]

Does prescribing opioids for pain lead to addiction?

The fear that prescribing opioids for chronic pain will engender iatrogenic addiction is not supported by experience. Zenz et al 4 report on 100 patients who were chronically treated with opioids for nonmalignant pain; none developed addiction to opioids. Portenoy reviewed this and other studies, as well as his own experience, and concluded that addiction to opioids in patients without an addiction history rarely results from long-term opioid treatment for pain.

This article is pro-Oxycontin propaganda. If you delve further, you will find the doctors and organizations that purport that addiction is uncommon in chronic opioid treatment are making most of their money from opioid drug companies.

Dr Portenoy is on the speaker’s bureau for Purdue-Frederick, Knoll, Janssen, and Roxane Laboratories, and he is a consultant for Glaxo Wellcome, Abbott Laboratories, Alza Corp, Ortho-Biotech, Warner-Lambert Co, Schein Pharmaceuticals, and Cytogen. He also is involved with industrial agreements for Anesta, Knoll, Parke-Davis and Targon.

[jigsaw]

Hi mom and dad!

Hi kids! We sent you the money. Did you spend it already? LOL

[Redwood71]

"Miniabstract: Myths and fears about addiction often prevent the use of opioids in treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. This article presents guidelines for safe and appropriate prescribing of opioids, monitoring of patients, and avoiding legal problems."

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I put up this article to give the folks an opportunity to see the positive possibilities of Opiod use in a controlled atmosphere of perfect care. I also recognized the shortfalls of the treatment written into the article. You'll notice that the term "rarely" is used when discussing addiction. There are a number of points in the piece that openly admit possible errors in the theory of their treatment using opiods as freely as they do. I really thought this article spend just as much time displaying the shortfalls as it did, praising the use. Maybe, more. And all of it tied to human error with some applied to the prescribing physician. But it did a plausable job defining the illness and it's reactions and actions on the patient.

Red

[Redwood71]

Thanks. It blued out when I added it to my original post, and went dead in the placing of the article on the board. It, of course, could still be opened with the mouse, but thank you anyway. I found your entry when I came back.

Red

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this!

Even in the case of a patient with serious cancer related pain, the oncologists seem very reluctant to prescribe enough pain medication!

I had to push the doctor for more medication frequently, almost to her final days!

[JoJo Gunn]

You're welcome. HTML is still an animal I'm sloooooowly learning.

[TonyM]

Is it just my imagination or is the Hollywood crowd unusually quite about this? Could it be they are all guilty of similar addictions?

[ModelBreaker]

He ought to change over to medical pot.

Yeah. Then his only problem would be excess stupidity and inability to get anything done. That'd help.

[Purdue Pete]

I happen to believe this article. I had two major surgeries within 5 months...kidney cancer and other stuff. I was on morphine in the hospital and hydrocodone for several months. I had no trouble whatsoever stopping the meds.

My Dr. said that as long as you have severe pain, addiction is not likely. When you start taking them after the pain is gone, addiction occurs.

This was all 3 years ago. Haven't had either since, or the desire for it.

[billorites]

"This was all 3 years ago. Haven't had either since, or the desire for it."

I think your story serves as an inspiration for the many people forced to cope with enduring chronic pain.

BTW, do you typically use all of your pills every month?

If not, please PM.

Thanx,
B.

[auggy]

"This article is pro-Oxycontin propaganda. If you delve further, you will find the doctors and organizations that purport that addiction is uncommon in chronic opioid treatment are making most of their money from opioid drug companies."

This is probably true. I have been on Oxy's 40mg , for around 5 years. I take two a day and It has been great for me. It makes my pain tolerable. I can lead a normal life. It would take 12 to 18 Lortabs to accomplish the same results as, 2 Oxycontin. There isn't any hangover affects with Oxy's as there is with Lortabs. I have not experienced any decrease in the pain killing of Oxy's. In other words, It still takes care of the pain for me , as it did when I first started taking it. It does have it's positive side.

[Lysander]

...Then his only problem would be excess stupidity....

Not a new problem for the big fat idiot.

[Eaker]

Not a new problem for the big fat idiot.

Fat??

Idiot??

What are you talking about???

[Born Conservative]

Is your name Al Franken?

[Redwood71]

My condolences on your loss. As you have, unfortunately, witnessed, pain can do many things to people. It makes us all liars and cheaters in our efforts to relieve it.

But, I feel the more important issue of Rush's situation is that the bashers are treating this as a recreational drug abuser gone bad. You notice I call a recreationist a drug abuser. I call a perscriptioned patience a user. The professionals that perscribe these drugs admit their falibility at protecting the user and it is nothing but sheer immature, unthinking, brainlessness to bash anyone in this situation before the facts come out. It also indicates who reads the media and who believes them word for word. I guess we can separate the sheep now.

Red

[Redwood71]

Probably something about the pot calling the kettle black.