“ The FDA is mandating new labeling for opioids to better inform patients and healthcare providers about the risks of addiction, misuse, and overdose associated with long-term use.”
Those of us who use them according to the prescription don’t need a warning label. Those who use them illegally will never read the warning label.
My tax dollars at work.
Problem solved..who knew all it would was a label.
I had a “complex” knee replacement in March.
VA sent me home with 90 5mg oxycodone (straight, no tylenol)...baby aspirin sized pills.
The first few days I was taking 2 every 4 hours. The pain was overwhelming.
But I was smart enough to start tapering down and suffering a little more pain each day...when I was down to about 20 of them.
I made it.
But for those who start with severe acute pain and are unwilling to taper, hell awaits them when they are eventually cut off. And they will be.
I am a retired hospital pharmacist. Opioids are very good for for short term pain and evil for long term pain In the case of a terminal patient with cancer the addiction is irrelevant. They are dying and thus must be kept pain free. The addiction is of no importance as they are dying and we must at this point keep them pain free.
I well remember a patient on C-West at the Temple VA Hospital, our cancer ward. He was terminal and knew it. He was on incredible doses of morphine for pain control. The doses would have killed most people but he was sane and logical due to months of therapy for pain conrol I mixed them myself down in the pharmacy. He was afraid of the night as he thought that was when he would die. When I had completed my normal duties on night shift, I would walk the halls and sit with him and talk with him. I did him well as a human being of morality. I will miss this man.
More pain! Fewer choices!!!
Harass the prescribing caregiver over every opioid RX they write.
This BS just drives wore and more chronic pain patients to get their relief from the streets. Which is eventually a death sentence.
People are the problem, not the pain meds.
Can they get a jack in the box with a 3 foot large warning banner stuffed in a prescription bottle?
Turn the lid, and a 3 foot large warning label is blasted into your face.
Can I get a GS-14 position in government for that idea? I have lots of stupid ideas that accomplish nothing but go with the flavor of the day!!!