I thought we legalized marijuana because it was the miracle drug for pain. Hmmmm.
I see nothing in my copy of the constitution that says anything about any governmental entity having any say about what goes in my body.
Which is why it should be a FELONY for ANY Public Employee Nationwide to procure or attempt to procure ANY Opiod of any kind. We need to protect our Public Employee’s from this Dangerous Drug and Putting them in Prison for 5 years if they do acquire it or attempt to acquire an Opiod just might SAVE THEIR LIFE
Just like gun control wont save any lives.
The result is you can barely get ANY kind of pain drugs anymore, thanks to the Oxy junkies and their incompetent doctors. A friend needed valium for a series of MRIs (she gets super claustrophobic inside) and after 12 phone calls they gave her a bottle...with ONE valium. It’s nuts.
A few years ago at our shiny new VA clinic in Cape Coral FL, a veteran who had depended on the VA to help him with years of chronic pain from kidney stones was denied any further access to effective pain control. He went to his vehicle in their parkig lot and blew his brains out.
I understand he left a note hoping his death might help another vet. His family put up a little makeshift memorial and VA maint guys tore it down. Said it had ants in it.
Opioid overdoses and fentanyl deaths are the result of CHOICES. Individuals CHOOSE to use. Bad choices can have bad outcomes. But it has the upside of removing undesirables from the gene pool.
After emergency surgery I got exactly 6 ‘Loritabs’ to treat the pain of having my abdomen sliced opened, guts rearranged, and stitched back together. If I wanted more I had to go IN PERSON to the hospital, again, and get another prescription for 6 more pills. They wouldn’t even let me call it in.
What a joke. Thanks government for more interference in the medical system.
“It’s made it increasingly difficult for legitimate patients with an ongoing medical need for treatment for severe pain to get relief from prescribed opioids.”
I hope the regulators responsible develope intractable pain and are told to take tylenol.
Medicare/Medicaid had patients rate their doctors and one parameter was pain relief. Of course, doctors tried to get better ratings and that’s how the opioid epidemic got started.