There’s no “Opioid Crisis”. At least where pain prescriptions are concerned.
That is just another narrative created by the Drug War Fascists and the media to make it impossible for pain sufferers to get relief.
People who suffer genuine pain are treated as the worst sort of criminals. That’s immoral.
“People who suffer genuine pain are treated as the worst sort of criminals. That’s immoral.”
Opioids are serious drugs, with the highest potential for abuse.
It is right and proper to pressure doctors to pressure patients toward other therapies. Those other therapies vary widely, from pot to exercise/physical therapy. And the only way to get honest feedback on their efficacy is to first break the addiction.
But, to your point, there are SOME folks who can only function if they have opioids. And that number is far less than the people now addicted. Far less.
And controlled trials have proven that assertion.
People who suffer genuine pain are treated as the worst sort of criminals. That’s immoral.
Exactly.
“People who suffer genuine pain are treated as the worst sort of criminals. That’s immoral.”
Tell me about it.
I used to take 1 hydrocodone at night due to pain from neuropathy. I was able to get a good 7 hours of peaceful pain free sleep. My family doctor prescribed it.
Va passed a law in knee jerk reaction to the “opioid crisis”.
Doctors have stopped prescribing opiods because it is too much hassle from the government.
To get my hydro prescription refilled I would have to go to a pain management specialist who would try me on all the useless drugs my family doctor had discarded over the years.
I would have to make monthly appointments where I would be drug tested.
Since my insurance doesn’t pay for pain management therapy I would have to pay the full cost myself.
Insurance only covers 1 drug test per year. Again I would pay the full cost 11 months of the year.
That equals $180/month I don’t have to be told I can’t get the one medicine that actually works and to be put on meds that don’t work.
I’m now back to icing my feet down prior to bed, taking otc pain meds and applying an analgesic gel to get 2-3 hours of sleep before the pain wakes me up. I then repeat for another 2-3 hours of sleep.
I sometimes feel like I’m existing instead of living.
If only our betters had to live by the laws they make for us.
In all my medical career I have never, ever seen this many opiate associated non responsive and dead patients. It is to the point where emergency room personnel are searching for patches in every nook and cranny of these folks. We find them in wierd places in the morgue.