Well based on the price per pill I suspect they want people addicted to opioids. But hey the option is there I guess.
Whats the big deal? Opiates are great drugs when you have real pain, and as far as addiction goes, well, there was a time in this Country when Doctors were still allowed to practice medicine the way they saw fit. In my case I had a nice long talk with my 3 doctors after a bad motorcycle accident. You have 2 options and one of them we aren’t going to do. Medical Coma for 3 months or take all the Percodan you can for 3 months. Percodan is yesterdays OxyContin. Obviously we all knew I would be addicted in short order, but My Doctors had a Plan, in 3 months once you have healed up enough for surgery you will go in to the Hospital for 3-4 weeks, the first 7-10 days will be to go through Withdrawls under Doctors care in a hospital bed. I was basically knocked out with other drugs for a little over a week, once the shit was out of my system I had a 12 hour Major Surgery and woke up Drug Free and Pain Free. I couldn’t have lived without them and near the end I was taking 50 a day!!!
FR’s liberTARDians are going to hate this one.
I know a guy who has been on opioids for chronic pain related to spinal stenosis, djd, and osteoarthritis, for years. His pain management physician recently put him on morphine contin twice a day, instead of fentanyl patches,in addition to oxycodone 4 times a day as needed. Since he put him on the morphine, he takes much less oxycodone usually just one or two per day. Before, he was running out of oxy before the month was up. A competent pain management clinician makes all the difference in the world.
What’s the performance vs. alternating back and forth between ibuprofen and acetaminophen, which works pretty well in some cases for MODERATE pain.
I always took half what the doctor prescribed because I was scared to death of getting hooked on them.
“It’s not a slam dunk on effectiveness,” said Michael Schuh of the Mayo Clinic, a pharmacist and pain medicine expert who was not involved in the research. “But it is a slam dunk in that it’s a very different pathway and mechanism of action. So, I think that shows a lot promise.”
Excuses? It’s more expensive and doesn’t work?