I heard on a news report that the majority of this drug goes to Medicare patients.
If you’ve got severe pain (back, hip, etc), then when opioids came along...it was a big positive thing. The trouble is that you don’t get off them, and it eventually affects your judgement. A lot of people who had sports injuries in their youth...are the ones more susceptible to using them.
“I heard on a news report that the majority of this drug goes to Medicare patients.”
Interesting observation. I know somebody on Medicare and he has an ample supply of the stuff. I have four kidney stones and thirty pills. The implication from the doctor is he won’t give me more. (He wants me to get an operation.)
Opioides crack down is like the war on drugs (we lost) with the pain killers as the Air Force they punish everyone instead of the offender. No I am not on these drugs but I know how the government works all screwed up. Some people need pain relief and true the doctors have been liberal in their prescribing, it is all about $$$$, so just punish everyone instead of controlling the dispense of the pain medication.