Posted on 11/17/2021 2:53:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
The DEA is a major problem. I have been following this for the last couple months — the fact that they torture people trying to stop the opioid crisis — which is frankly of THEIR causing — demonstrates the evil of government in medicine. This is another agency that should be disbanded. They are reprehensible.
If you can’t fix the problem, there’s money to be had prolonging it.
DEA needs addicts because they are running a protection racket with the cartels. If addicts are successfully treated, the black market profits will suffer.
DEA is a criminal organization. Al Capone with a badge.
The dictatorial stuff never leads with a sob story. Just “Achtung Achtung.”
So if a person has real chronic pain, the alternative is street fetanyl?
So which federal agency is not a criminal organization?
“So if a person has real chronic pain, the alternative is street fetanyl?
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More and more, the answer to that question is YES.
But what is curious is that this pharmacist was ‘’dispensing’’ a controlled substance.
Only a doctor can prescribe medications, especially any medication with an opiate based structure. I've never heard of a pharmacist just ''dispensing'' medication. How did he do this? Did word get out somehow about a drug store in town where the pharmacist just gives out pills? Did this guy have a medical license to diagnose and prescribe treatments and medications? I've never heard of anything like this.
I have serious nerve pain from damage due to an AV fistula, and started having widespread pain in my arm within 48 hours of surgery. When it didn’t improve, my GP gave me Vicodin (this was January 2009, and I was 21).
Considering I didn’t have perfect coverage, taking a pill every so often, those ups and downs created problems, exacerbating pain. I occasionally wound up in the ER, usually for nausea and vomiting, but a couple of times for pain that reduced me to tears. When they started using my fistula in February, they started using it prematurely due to an infection in my subclavian catheter. That made the pain worse. So did the fact that my arterial site was so underdeveloped that there was literally a half-cm spot where they could put the needle without collapsing my access. Unfortunately, that spot contained a nerve cluster that leads to the hand, thus causing MORE pain.
You see where I’m going with this.
The ER treated me like a junkie, and my doc didn’t feel comfortable prescribing high doses of opioids. I was referred to a pain clinic and expected the worst, but after a few months of trial and error, I wound up on the lowest dose of Fentanyl available. It was my first pain-free day in years. It was increased twice over about two years and I haven’t had a dosage change in more than a decade. I have Norco for breakthrough pain, but sometimes it’s worthless.
They said if I start having severe pain issues again, they want to take me off of opioids entirely, which makes SOME sense; or it would if my pain wasn’t chronic, but it is. My arm isn’t usable without pain meds, and would just sit in a sling, still reducing me to tears even while off of dialysis.
Going to the street would, literally, be a last-ditch effort during a national collapse. You never know what you’ll get nowadays, as literally EVERYTHING is being cut with illegal fentanyl; even coke and meth.
Because that combo never killed anyone.
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All I can say is be proactive about trying to come up with other solutions. Doctors probably won't make it easy for you.
That is an excellent sum up.
Not to mention, they keep hiking the price of a DEA license up for those of us who prescribe controlled substances. The cost has risen from around $500 to over $750 within the last few years. Keep making it unattainable for more of us, and soon no one will be able to prescribe anything controlled.
Shouldn’t the license be for the facility instead of the individual doctors/pharmacists?
Did you know that the DEA laundered millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do?
I have learned, after almost 20 years as a patient, how to talk to doctors. I was a nursing student, and speak biomedical terminology, which makes it so much easier. I once managed to convince a doctor to NOT perform a pulmonary biopsy on me when admitted with shortness of breath and bloody sputum. My Nephrologist was impressed.
Usually, we can come to some kind of agreement. For now, it looks like I will stay on my current dosage and just take mini “vacations” from the breakthrough meds. They work better after having not used them for awhile, for obvious reasons relating to brain chemistry.
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Dino one can be nasty stuff. It was designed to be used for a week no more plus in patient. Sadly some “addiction” specialists have people on it for years. It is hard to get off of
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