Posted on 03/13/2019 9:02:23 AM PDT by GailA
On Thursday (March 14th), the Oregon Health Authority is going to vote on a proposal that just about everyone who treats chronic pain thinks is a bad idea.
Essentially, the proposal would force Oregon Medicaid patients off opioid medications without their consent.
This vote is happening despite intense criticism aimed at the agency from over 100 leaders in pain medicine, addiction and public health who raised their concern in a letter that was sent to the Oregon Health Authority. It said that the risks of involuntary tapering and the importance of facilitating access of medications to people who need them should be at the center of the debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpainreport.com ...
This type of pain isn’t curable, so the focus of treatment is to reduce your discomfort.
The condition is also known as intractable pain disease, or IP. If you have intractable pain, it’s constant and severe enough that you may need to be bedridden or hospitalized for care.
Whatever happened to the “Right to Privacy” between the patient and doctor, used so vigorously to protect infanticide and the murder of the unborn?
hmmm.....who should be making this decision?
You and your doctor? Or some schmuck who managed to get himself elected as a back-bencher in some State Legislature someplace?
Gee, I thought the Left (who runs Oregon) were the ones previously telling us that a woman’s health decisions were a private matter between the woman and her doctor.
"Sarcaustic" enough?
A lot of people have untreatable chronic back pain.
Leftist thug bureaucrats will ruin a lives.
Democrats are scum.
Medicaid patients.
Want better care and/or privacy, find a way to pay for it out of your own pocket.
The only people with chronic pain that I know on Medicaid are dual eligible seniors. I feel bad for them, but I’m not sure even that population ought to be on opioids long term.
Sounds like a plan. Because we refuse to close the border to help stem the tide of illegal drugs we stem the flow of legal drugs to those that may need them. Makes perfect sense.
Tell that to the victims. I guess they are trying to peddle more mj.
I predict that the suicide rate will increase dramatically.
A bleeding heart will not cure this problem.
“A lot of people have untreatable chronic back pain.”
I have untreatable chronic hand pain. Both hands, and every med I took hasn’t done squat for me. The only thing that helped me manage the pain so I could get a decent nights sleep is Norco, and my pain management doctor stopped prescribing it to me.
This pisses me off.
Many of us foresaw this.
So, an “epidemic” caused by people who want to take drugs for recreational use (and yes, that is what most of the overdoses result from among young people) is going to induce LEGISLATORS to force physicians to stop prescribing medications for those who NEED them?
Does that ever burn me.
but I’m not sure even that population ought to be on opioids long term.
All my life government has been telling me I couldn’t take certain drugs. They spend huge tax dollars to force compliance and thereby guarantee the continuation of organized crime and black markets.
Pard, I’d be willing to bet, unless you’re a health care professional, I have been at the bedsides of more of the dying than you have. And NONE of them went peacefully. Opiods have their place. But they are way over prescribed.
Have relative in Calif almost 90 with incurable problems that cause her extreme pain. they are constantly reducing her pain med. It’s crazy.
it’s criminal- one could almost wish perpetual kidney stones on those who refuse to allow people in severe debilitating pain to get proper effective pain relief- Bet they’d change their tune in a BIG hurry if they had chronic kidney stone pain that didn’t allow them to function for hours on end!
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