Opinion: Regulators, I Double Dare You! (Fake Opioid Crisis)

National Pain Report ^ | January 27, 2019 | Richard "Red" Lawhern PhD

[GailA]

Gross over-regulation of doctors in their prescription of opioid pain relievers is driving hundreds out of practice, deserting their patients to agony, disability and sometimes death by suicide. However, despite the protestations of many State and Federal regulators, “the opioid problem” isn’t from over-prescription. Rates of opioid related mortality from all sources are almost entirely unrelated to rates of physician prescribing. The contribution of medically managed opioids is so small that it gets lost in the noise of street drugs. Published data of the CDC prove this reality beyond any reasonable contradiction.

In the relatively few deaths where a prescription-type drug is found in postmortem toxicology screens, it is rarely found alone. Instead, it will be accompanied by multiple illegal street drugs and/or alcohol. Likewise, morphine found in such testing maybe a byproduct of heroin metabolism, rather than a prescribed drug. Although we can’t say this is “proof” of anything, it seems at least plausible that significant numbers of deaths attributed by county medical examiners to prescription drugs are in fact the consequences of suicide or misadventure from under-treated pain and depression, rather than from medical exposure to opioids.

[GailA]

It maybe a drug reaction, or the dose was to strong. I can’t do more than 5 mg Oxycontin. I know I had to try several different ones before finding the right one. I puke no matter which one. Even Tylenol 3 does it to me. So I have to have Pheregan to stop the puking.

As a Cardio/Gastro patient I’m limited in what they can use. As an Intractable Pain Patient who is also a Complex Patient as I see 4 Specialist. And it all has to be coordinated and make sure what they prescribe works well together.

I had thumb surgery 2 yrs ago, while in the post surgery cast I was able to use Ice and Tylenol. When they went to the Hard Cast that was no longer feasible I ended up taking two 5 Mg pills a day. And only had 2 weeks of them, but after 3 days stopped taking them as Extra Strength Tylenol began handling the pain. I actually had more Pain during Rehab. Now I’m going through a lower denture, and it has been rough. 11 teeth destroyed by FDA approved meds had to be removed. Bone spurs developed, that surgery was worse than the pulling of the teeth. I got 3 days of Oxycontin for 2 weeks of extreme pain for both procedures. Dentist won’t touch the upper as they are a full set minus Wisdom teeth. They are painful, bleed a lot and I’ll just have to put up with it. I can’t take the other Oxicodone as it has Aspirin in it.

Depending on how major a surgery is should determine the length of time you need a Pain med. And like you should be discontinued as soon as possible. But many of us have no other recourse as the pain is a Medical Disease that is Not treatable in any other form. It’s the difference in a wheelchair or being bedridden over being semi mobile where you can at least take care of your own hygiene needs with out an assistant.

[GailA]

Difference is we Objected to ILLICIT drugs that are dangerous and unregulated. A prescription drug has been regulated for as long as I can remember and I’m 70. Never had 1 until my first C-Section at 23 and even then all you got was 2 weeks at the lowest dose feasible.

Dr. Lawhern is a Pain Advocate with extensive research to back up his writings. A Oncologist should be able to script the strength of Pain meds his Cancer patient needs, with out fear of being arrested, fined, and loss of license.

By your criteria a Type 1 Diabetic is a ADDICT they need Insulin daily or multiple times a day. As a Thyroid patient I’d be deemed Addicted as I have to take it daily. Heart patients are then Addicted to their Hypertension meds. My BIL has to take daily meds for Duchenes MD that makes him an addict. NO it makes us dependent on a medicine for a disease. I’m also dependent on my hearing aids to hear, not because a pain med destroyed my hearing. A BAD Sadistic SURGEON DID THAT, nor could you prove it.

[Mariner]

“Difference is we Objected to ILLICIT drugs that are dangerous and unregulated. A prescription drug has been regulated for as long as I can remember and I’m 70. “

Your safe and regulated drug kills thousands every year, and wrecks devastation in even more lives and families.

And that’s OK.

But not an unregulated plant that has never killed anyone.

“By your criteria a Type 1 Diabetic is a ADDICT they need Insulin daily or multiple times a day. “

No.

Fix the diabetes and the diabetic has no desire for insulin.

Fix the pain and the opioid addict will still scream for more and whine about how bad it hurts.

[GailA]

How do you fix pain from damaged inoperable spines that FDA drugs destroyed? Or botched surgeries? Genetic diseases like Sickle Cell and more as there are hundreds of such painful diseases with no treatment or cures, to rare for PIG Pharma to research? What do you tell that Veteran who was blown up by a IED he has to live with the pain? Or the car wreck victim now in a wheelchair?

Are we so lacking in Compassion we’d deny Cancer patients pain med? That is what is happening, pharmacies like CVS, Walgreen’s, Walmart, and Hi-Vee are refusing to fill their Oncologist Scripts.

While Street junkies are getting needles, shoot up rooms with a Narcan monitor. That enables them to continue their addiction?

HOW does my niece tell her 13 yr old He’s going to DIE very painfully before he’s 30 as his organs fail from Duchenne’s MD? And he’ll spend most of that time in a wheelchair? He already has speech impairment and muscle issues. BTW it is the worst form of MD.

[Mariner]

For all of the conditions you described there are opioid pain programs available.

In all cases.

[GailA]

Try living in TN we had over 200 pain clinics, we now have 65.

In fact, Kolodny and PROP did an end-run around FDA after FDA refused to validate their anti-opioid propaganda. It turns out that Kolodny and then Director of CDC were former associates in the NY State department of health. CDC would normally have no charter at all to determine practice standards or drug safety. But they dove into this realm of regulation at the insistence of their Director, in a conspiracy with PROP to suppress use of opioids. And Enrich Kolodny’s failing Suboxone Clinics.