Posted on 05/31/2023 1:08:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Congressman David Valadao voted for H.R. 467, the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act.
The legislation was passed by the House of Representatives, in hopes of permanently placing Fentanyl-related substances into Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.
Schedule 1 is the strictest level of control placed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Some may believe that this won't make any changes.
Elizabeth Guillen, a woman who lost her 21-year-old son, Christopher Estrada, back in August 2022 after he overdosed on Fentanyl, said there’s no point in having this vote passed.
“If they make it a schedule 1 drug, what's the whole point of it? I think there should be a stronger legislation to remove it instead of trying to make it like a part of society,” she said.
Guillen believes that one of the best ways to stop this from continuing is by getting it off the streets and from the hands of people using and selling it.
“Trying to get it off the streets, trying to find the suppliers, trying to find the dealers, trying to find the people who have an issue with the addiction itself, manufacturers, things like that,” said Guillen. “I don't think making it a schedule 1 drug is going to stop any kind of problem with it, if anything it's going to make it bigger.”
Guillen says acknowledging it as a legal drug makes it the problem.
Several reports show that disposable vapes are being laced with Fentanyl.
“I heard recently that they were putting it in Marijuana, they are finding it in products that we use,” said Guillen.
Ridiculous! What about chronic pain patients? It won’t do a dimes worth of good to make it schedule 1. Almost all the illicit drugs out there are schedule 1’s; does that get rid of them? Of course not!
No, it’s illegal. Nobody is gonna take it now. 🤣
Well that should solve the issue.
Sanction China. This stuff isnt meth. You cant make it in a trailer. It is shipped from China to cartels. Seems odd we cant blame China for anything at all.
Marijuana remains Schedule I. That’s worked really well.
This bill waters down the legal definition of a Schedule I drug: one with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, and changes it to “whatever Congress chooses”.
One drug mule can smuggle enough of the illegal drug to kill half the country.
The problem isn’t the legal medically prescribed drug.
Trump had no problem confronting the Chines. The current administration is in bed with the Chinese.
Schedule 1, has no medical benefits? My patients have been benefiting from fentanyl for forty years.
Except fentanyl is the most often used narcotic in anesthetizing a patient and is the base of analgesic based sedation for mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU to prevent deletion which is an independent predictor of mortality in the critically ill adult. Yeah. F***ing great call by Congress critters virtue signaling with no knowledge.
It’s most often used IV as an analgesic in anesthesia practice. It’s a rapid acting short lived narcotic. You are incorrect as to it’s main use
Cocaine is a local anesthetic. It is the only local anesthetic that vasoconstrictor and therefore reduces bleeding in the surgical field. Still used occasionally in ENT surgery
Absolutely STUPID !!!
This will drive some people to go to the STREETS for effective pain relief!!!
Scheduling Fentanyl as Schedule 1 will do NOTHING to stop the flow of ILLEGAL fentanyl on the streets! THE PROBLEM IS THE POROUS BORDER, NOT LEGALLY PRESCRIBED FENTANYL THAT HAS BEEN DIVERTED!!!
Yes, I DESPISE our stupid Fed Gov!
Not to mention brief sedation like for colonoscopies and other outpatient procedures.
fentanyl is a lousy drug for chronic pain. Too short acting and the transdermal preparations are erratic and dangerous for those around the patient. It is however a great drug for conscious sedation for outpatient procedures, pain relief during general anesthesia and deep sedation in the ICU for vented patients. The schedule 1 designation is a disaster
I know. Let let the congress critters have a colonoscopy without the fentanyl. They may vote differently after that
Wish they’d OD on Fentanyl, solve our problems.
My memory is not the best now, but ACTIQ seemed to be useful for breakthrough pain in cancer patients?
Fentanyl is an anesthetic and a sedative used in intubated patients with mechanical ventilation.
Since it is so much more potent than morphine, the anesthetic and sedative effect occur without many of the typical opioid side effects seen with the higher doses of morphine needed to produce the same effect.
This is why heroin (diacetyl morphine) was used in ICUs in the UK before fentanyl use became feasible.
Congress prohibiting medical use of fentanyl (Category I = no legitimate medical purpose, i.e., banned) is criminal.
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