Posted on 03/14/2016 7:52:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
An emotional Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday signed what he called the most comprehensive law in the nation to combat an opioid addiction scourge, including a seven-day limit on first-time prescriptions for opiate painkillers.
The Republican governor struggled to maintain his composure while recalling families he had met — some standing behind him at the Statehouse ceremony — who had lost loved ones to a “deadly, merciless epidemic” and others who were desperately seeking help for a family member.
In recent years, the opiate-abuse epidemic has claimed thousands of lives in Massachusetts. The law, which was given final approval by the Legislature last week, establishes new rules and procedures for the prescribing of opiate painkillers. Supporters of the limits say most heroin addicts first become hooked on painkillers that were either prescribed or obtained illegally. …
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All of that was known long before his election. MA always wants the worst.
No matter what, the poor always believe Mrs. Bill. Even if they deep down know she is conning them
It’s ridiculous.
Hmmmm. The government is getting involved in the relationship between patient and doctor
Agreed.
I find it ironic that ObamaCare also had an agenda to start using pain control instead of actually treating those deemed to old/worthless/conservative to merit expensive treatment and now they start tightening up the rules about pain meds - lots of doctors are getting skittish about prescribing them.
Yes, it is now much harder to find a Primary who will write a pain script for more than 2 weeks.
If you are in chronic pain and I mean high level 8-9 pain you need a new script each month and they want you to go through Pain Management. Hubby had his shoulder ball replaced 8 months ago, ran out his Medicare Rationed PT, still in pain until the muscles are rebuilt requires daily pain med not a 2 week course. Still doing his PT at home.
Well those of us who have had all the nerve blocks, steroid injections, side effect riddled drugs like Lyrica will tell you they don’t work and we would like to live with a little less pain. And should not be forced to need a new script every month. Since we are retired Military over 65 we are DOD MANDATED to use Base Dispensary or Express Scripts, and the script MUST contain the words CHRONIC PAIN or it will be filled as a 2 week script. All they want to script for is 5 MG NORCO and that crap needs Nexium to take it will eat your stomach up. And 5 mg is no more than 2 extra strength Tylenol.
So that forces you to make a trip to the doc’s office to get a new paper script monthly. Even if all you do is pick it up at the window. It can NOT be faxed or E-scripted in. It must be a paper script.
Tell me about it, I have several health conditions OA, OP, degenerative spine, and all of them come with that 4 letter word PAIN. Steroid injections and Nerve blocks have failed.
What I found was regular pain meds don’t work well on Abdominal pain. And I have to deal with that too, Gastroparesis Slow Motility. Imagine taking 4 hrs to digest 2 slices of toast and 2 eggs? Heaven help you if you eat a high fiber food, IT DOES NOT DIGEST just sits in your intestines and ferments. So you get bloated, distention, and PAIN. Their brilliant suggestion is 6 small meals a day...that is what I’d call the 2/2 eggs and toast it takes 4 hrs to digest.
It eliminated any raw fruit or veggies, and some cooked ones, meats are done in the crock pot or ground, but still not comfortable eating. Next suggestion is that Horse Manure tasting Ensure. Idiots keep calling it Idiopathic Colitis for 3 yrs. I had to ask for a Gastric Delay Test to get the right diagnosis. Gastro should have known to perform one, as the symptoms did not fit Colitis.
Had a ER trip on the 11th for a flare NOT pleasant, not much they can do for you either. I’m the side effect queen when it comes to drugs. And the ER is a last resort. I’ve had to many blown veins because they are to ill trained to match IV Cath sizes to vein sizes. Mine are the size of a child’s. And if I’m dehydrated or to cold, good luck finding one.
And I hate NORCO since they took out half the Tylenol it doesn’t work.
did people make good decisions?...no...
SOME people acted irresponsibly and made bad decisions - why should OTHER people be forced to suffer through treatable pain because of that?
And you can't use pot for pain because that's the favored drug of hippies.
Punish the many, for the good of the many (supposedly), due to the actions of the few.
Typical Bizarro World (leftist) “”logic””. And...since the individual can no longer be held responsible for their own actions in the Obamanation.....big government must make it so that the individual is unable to BE responsible for their own actions. Just more freedoms removed ...
for our own good, of course. FT!
Typical Bizarro World (leftist) ""logic"".
This has been the consistent "logic" of the War on Drugs.
“So that forces you to make a trip to the doc’s office to get a new paper script monthly. Even if all you do is pick it up at the window. It can NOT be faxed or E-scripted in. It must be a paper script.”
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What a boondoggle this entire thing has become.
The government,aka the nanny state,has made life so terribly complicated.
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Massachusetts, the only state that has given Trump a majority. They are going to need those painkillers.
Amen!!
True. But you can see examples of it in other areas, as well. Any time an officer punishes the whole squadron for the acts of one or a few. Any time a teacher punishes the whole class for the misbehavior of one or a few. Cracking down on the many for the misdeeds of the few is a typical liberal/leftist strategy. They fear the masses....
as well they should.
...the battle is the Lord’s...
So, the rest of Massachusetts gets punished on behalf of people who cannot, for whatever reason, wean themselves off of the opiates. Great.
Nanny State PING!
He also appears to be a crybaby, just like Senator Voinovich from Ohio.
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