The irony here is rich.
Many of those who now face restrictions on their addiction are those who have been strong advocates in the War on Drugs.
And anyone doing 10mg a day, or more, of opioids...every day...for months on end...IS AN ADDICT.
And anyone doing 10mg a day, or more, of opioids...every day...for months on end...IS AN ADDICT.
40 years ago after a real bad motorcycle accident causing major roadrash requiring extensive skin grafting I started taking Percodan at 1 pill every 3-4 hours, by the end of the 3 month wait for surgery I was taking 4 every hour!! COmpletely addicted.
As soon as I woke up from surgery, all pain was gone and I spent the next 2 weeks in the hospital going through withdrawls. Unfortunately they don’t let you get clean in the Hospital after surgery anymore like they did in the 70’s
Yesterdays Oxycontin
Percodan:
Oxycodone/aspirin is a combination drug marketed by Endo Pharmaceuticals. It is a tablet containing a mixture of 325 mg of aspirin and 4.8355 mg of oxycodone HCl; it is an opioid/non-opioid combination used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain.
Personally, I have never bought into the "opioid crisis" line.
Before I left the school board a couple of years ago, they passed (over my objection) an intrusive policy to spy on American kids .... I mean to prevent the opioid crisis from looming larger, which had yet to surface in our little rural corner of SW Pa.
There was a rasher of newspaper articles about opioid OD's and seizures ... which just sort of disappeared after about 6 months.
I of course forgot about it until I read this article this morning.
I DO blame public schools for developing numbed and stupid people that buy into every fear imaginable so that politicians can pass legislation to further enslave us.
Consider the recent "shutdown" and the "We don't need the TSA anymore" stories coming out now.
Many of us argued we never DID, but it was post 911 and there wasn't much anyone could do about THAT momentum.
I'm not...did that regimen for 3 years. Took medication AS PRESCRIBED and never abused it. That was in Utah. Moved back to Colorado and could not get script again. Now I just tough it out.
I am not an addict. Wish I still had the script, but I'm not an addict.
Some people do become addicts...I'm not one of them.
FMCDH(BITS)
I’ll tell you what, how about (and understand I am being silly
with this comment), I come and visit you with a baseball bat. Break your spine at the base of your neck so that your spinal cord retains the shape of a triangle, then repeat the process at your lumbar spine. I will then gladly dictate for posterity, your personal expertise on opiod addiction. Please don’t forget to include your years of experience in the Health Care industry.
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.