Obamacare program may be linked to ER opioid prescriptions

Washington Examiner ^ | 5/7/15 | Robert King

[GailA]

Same goes for your Primary or other doctors. Lots of addictive scripts are over written. Other than pain pills all the other addictive drugs like Valium, Xanax are 30 days, but they have refills.

DOD REGS pain med is for 10 days unless your Primary has written CHRONIC PAIN on the script. Valium or drugs like Xanax are 30 days + refills.

Pain when it gets to high will drive up your BP and your pulse rate into the Red Zone and cause symptoms of a heart attack. Been there to many times. I hate those trips to the ER where they move like molasses in January and can’t even tell what size IV cath a person needs and blow good veins with to large gauge ones.

My biggest issue is with lack of DISCLOSURE on drugs. Even if you read every line on those hand outs, you won’t find that the FDA has put Warnings on ALL Osteoporosis drugs, and has also Black Boxed labelled Foreto for Bone Cancer. These drugs have to be taken FASTING, they are very HIGH GI SIDE EFFECTS that will give you GERD, then you will need the Purple Pill to treat that, which is a bone destruction drug. Pill Merry Go Round. Drug Muggers by Susan Cohen, 22 yr Pharmacist.
http://www.drugmuggersbook.com/drugmuggersbook/index

That yearly RECLAST IV is the worse of the lot. Safety update for osteoporosis drugs, bisphosphonates, and atypical femur fractures, A FIB, Jaw Degeneration, Kidney failure deaths.
http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/drugsafetypodcasts/ucm229800.htm

Black box warning Foreto
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21853

Reclast UPS kidney failure, A FIB risk. Not to be given to Asthma patients.
http://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/news/20110901/fda-osteoporsis-drug_ups-kidney-failure-risk

Statins are also over used.
Cholesterol : Dietary guidelines are wrong on saturated fats, claims cardiovascular researcher
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Dietary-guidelines-are-wrong-on-saturated-fats-claims-cardiovascular-researcher

SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT SATURATED FAT!
http://time.com/2861540/fat-and-carbs-diet-guidelines/

[__rvx86]

Opium is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

-Not Karl Marx

[LouAvul]

But wait. Libertarians insist that these drugs should be available as easily as buying chewing gum. Who is right?

[ConservingFreedom]

Libertarians insist that these drugs should be available as easily as buying chewing gum.

Sure, why let an opioid user go to a licensed regulated store when he can be tying up ER resources instead?

[Hardens Hollow]

“A new study released this week found 17 percent of nearly 20,000 patients were discharged from emergency rooms with an opioid prescription. Experts and lawmakers say a push under Obamacare for hospitals to get good patient satisfaction scores is one cause of the problem.”

More unintended consequences of socialism.

It the libs had asked any one of us, we could’ve pointed out the pitfalls before this was voted on in the middle of the night behind closed doors.