[vpintheak]

Every time I look into this subject I get sick to my stomach. Doctors are presribing these drugs at insane rates, and the people high on them are out there on the roads, going to work, living their lives stoned.
It’s really crazy. I had a friend tell me has asked for only a small amount form his doctor because he has severe back pain, and he was prescribed 200 pills! That’s a small amount? What’s a large amount?

[AppyPappy]

Eventually, the fear of the pain overcomes the pain itself. That’s how people can take so many Oxy’s a day. They are trying to ward off the pain, not remove it.

[corkoman]

Every time I look into this subject I get sick to my stomach. Doctors are presribing these drugs at insane rates, and the people high on them are out there on the roads, going to work, living their lives stoned. It’s really crazy. I had a friend tell me has asked for only a small amount form his doctor because he has severe back pain, and he was prescribed 200 pills! That’s a small amount? What’s a large amount?

Please tell us about the traffic accident rate of those on Rx pain relievers vs alcohol. Its infinitesimal yet you are not clamoring for alcohol prohibition are you?

Why do you care what other people put into their bodies? What business is it of yours? Do you propose more of the Nanny State to stop all this pain killer use?

Why is it that the totalitarian gene is so dominant?

[dglang]

That may have been a two or three month supply. You didn't mention the dosage. On my Morphine meds, I was scheduled to take 4 doses per day with varying amounts depending on time of day. The VA only issues pills for a prescription in a single strength. In order to to accommodate my varying schedule, they had to issue smaller dosage pills varying the number of pills taken each time. One months dosage was 210 pills. That was 7 small dose pills per day for a 30 day period.

Even though that was a large number of pills, the individual dose was very small.

I suspect that your friends doctor was trying to avoid writing two different prescriptions at different doses which might be looked at suspiciously and possibly considered as ‘shopping’ to get more pills,