Posted on 10/25/2020 5:49:37 AM PDT by devane617
I have a friend currently dieting from 4th stage bladder cancer. He called the doctor to get his morphine refilled. The RN said.....not sure we can do that since they’re addictive. He said....I think that’s the least of my worries.
The auto...addictive....response to terminal patients just boggles my mind. Patients should be able to be comfortable.
Dieing. Not dieting. Lol
They can enjoy getting dental implants without half a dozen Vicodin for the first few days.
Impede people from getting themselves addicted to prescription opioids, turning to cheaper easier to get street drugs, and dying - fine ... but not at ANY expense to the people who need those prescriptions. Not ANY.
Just become a homeless person addict and move to CA and you’ll get all the free drugs and needles you could want.
Those government agencies are such hypocrites.
Thank you for writing that, it’s exactly my experience. My family member followed all the rules, suffered the indignity of piss tests to prove it, and believed in their doctors.
It was heartbreaking and infuriating to watch as they suffered while being told by people in white coats it’s all For Your Own Good.
But trust us! And wear a mask!
This problem is only a piece of the intent of the fallout of the problem. If a pharmacy can cut or eliminate a script for any purpose rather than written illegally, then they are refusing to supply a drug of any kind that a doctor has prescribed. The limiting of medication to a patient can fall under many guises.
One I deal with with my chosen for me pharmacy is their having to stock an expensive drug in the hospital pharmacy where a doctor within that hospital has prescribed. (It is the only one of its kind) The pharmacy only stocks a tiny amount of it for appearance purposes and creates ways to refuse to dispense it. They even took an AMA form used in Ohio used to measure success in lab experiments changed one of the questions, took any identifying information about the form off so it could not be found, and use it to misrepresent the form as a bench mark for allowing the use of the drug. So my doctor has the drug injected at their area within the hospital instead of my doing it at home.
But the slippery slope is that a pharmacy is over ruling a legitimate script for other than medical reasons using cost as a deterrent to assist their business, or in this case, the peoples’ business as it is a taxpayer pharmacy (military). So the reason is political, not patient care. So at that point they have invented a reason why a pharmacy would refuse treatment over the charge of a doctor for other than medical. And they can make up more reasons and have.
rwood
Criminalizing “addiction” and altered mental states amounts to enacting religious dogma into law, which is or should be against the 1st Amendment prohibition of establishing a religion. So are laws against prostitution and gambling.
The Temperance Movement on the Right and Progressives on the Left join forces in the earliest 1900s to form a consensus for big government enabling each other to advance their respective agendas, even though they contradict each other on some points. It is a marriage of convenience.
It is where you get “big government conservatives. A lot of “small government conservatives don’t realize that small government is not capable of nor inclined to enforcing their social agenda.
I am a conservatarian. That is basically a security/economic conservative who is also anti-abortion but libertarian/liberal on all other major social issue.
The problem is actually religious and originates on our side.
See #29.
my hemorrhoid and shoulder operations?
= = =
What a combo.
Hope they did not mix up any parts.
“I sat on the throne and broke my scapula.”
“You are correct. If a pharmacist becomes suspicious of a Dr. the best course of action is to inform the State Board of Pharmacy and State Medical Board. They can go through his records and find out is something is wrong.”
I agree. No doctor dishing out pain meds like candy is going to go through the effort necessary to formulate fake medical records for the hundreds, or thousands, of people needed to get through a quick audit of his records - not just impractical, likely impossible to do in a way that looks legit.
Lol...luckily, they were two separate operations.
Almost 2 years ago my 95 year old mother fell and broke 7 ribs in 11 places. She eventually died from those injuries. She survives for six weeks after the fall, but it was over managed by a bureaucracy She survives for six weeks after the fall, but it was over managed by a bureaucracy.
The freaking hospital handed off all her medicines to a pain management team who guarded her against addiction. She suffered a lot as a result.
One time she was complaining about severe pain, so they summoned the pain management team, who took over 40 minutes to get to her.
The government, the attorneys and the crybabies filing lawsuits need to get out of this business and allow medicine to run on its own and police itself.
“The Temperance Movement on the Right and Progressives on the Left join forces in the earliest 1900s to form a consensus for big government”
For its first decades the Temperance Movement was all about awareness and social pressure - which is when it enjoyed its greatest success.
But today’s ‘social conservatives’ don’t have the guts to exert social pressure so pass the buck to big government.
A doctor & friend once advised me to never shop at a grocery store that fills perscriptions, especially during flu season. He didn’t and that was convincing advice. I followed suit.
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