[Larry381]

Somewhat related. My doctor has been a GP for 35 years and he tells me that the DEA has been harrassing him and many other doctors by flooding them with paperwork which forces them to explain in detail many of the prescriptions they write for pain medication. He states he is becoming so worried about these intrusions into his medical practice that he now hesitates to refill prescriptions for anything that contains narcotics or benzodiazepine.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Maryland PING

[cyborg]

I’m an LPn at a nursing home and the new paperwork is a nightmare.

[microgood]

He states he is becoming so worried about these intrusions into his medical practice that he now hesitates to refill prescriptions for anything that contains narcotics or benzodiazepine.

My father a GP experienced the same thing before he retired. The reason for this is that the DEA failed at every other thing it tried, so they sicked them on doctors to see if they could succeed there. Again, complete failure with negative consequences, unintended or otherwise.

[KoRn]

"Somewhat related. My doctor has been a GP for 35 years and he tells me that the DEA has been harrassing him and many other doctors by flooding them with paperwork which forces them to explain in detail many of the prescriptions they write for pain medication. He states he is becoming so worried about these intrusions into his medical practice that he now hesitates to refill prescriptions for anything that contains narcotics or benzodiazepine."

Such things make it dammed near impossible for the people that really need such medicines to get them. Unless someone is literally dying, a provider will rarely prescribe anything 'stronger' than Tylenol III, and some won't even do that much.

[NatlGuardSoldier]

I’m getting fed up with the “War on Drugs”. It seems the people that suffer the most from it are doctors and injured patients that can’t get the medication that they NEED.

I came back from Iraq the 2nd time with a fractured leg (happened 2 days before we left). I have to jump through so many hoops just to get some of the pain medication that doctors prescribed me.

[Species8472]

I watched both of my parents (my father was a hero of Normandy) die slow lingering deaths from cancer. Neither of the got the proper pain meds because of this madness. I wish the same on these “drug warriers”

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

These pain pill cops are a pain in the butt!