Posted on 01/25/2013 3:39:41 PM PST by Nachum
Federal Drug Administration advisers voted today to restrict access to certain kinds of prescription drugs in an effort to fight drug abuse. The vote had experts divided over the risk of drug abuse as weighed against the risk of increased pain or difficulty for patients on the medication. “It will have an impact on a lot of patients who have been receiving them for some time for legitimate purposes,” Dr. Lynn Webster, president-elect of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, said per Health Day News ahead of the vote. The FDA rule change is designed to implement
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>“At the end of the day, the benefits of reducing abuse will outweigh the harm to legitimate pain patients,”
At the end of your miserable days, let’s hope you suffer a painful and agonizing death.
I think hospitals should stop feeding meals to those patients who are not height/weight proportionate. /sarc
Joking aside, the DEA calls that “re-importation” and I doubt this FDA ruling will have any effect on it. Licensed Mexican pharmaceutical distributors order carloads of these medications from U.S. manufacturers. A large portion of these end up getting smuggled back into the U.S. and sold on the black market. The cartels have laboratories that fabricate their own versions of popular U.S. meds. Some of these are more potent than the original.
Or at least a pint of cheap bourbon and a piece of leather to bite down on...
It is going to be where painkillers will only be for the elite. “Pain killers for me, not for thee” !
What a bunch of stupid a$$holes.
In other words, it will be harder for people who really need painkillers to get them.
Words fail me.
People are dying because they abuse the drug and overdose...so we're going to deny those that take the drug responsibly, and allow them to suffer, to keep the abuser from abusing (which they're going to do anyway through black market drugs.)
This is the same argument they're using with guns. We're going to limit guns to legitimate, law abiding citizens because some wackos and criminals are "abusing" guns. And we all know the wackos and criminals are going to get the guns anyway.
This ruling comes just in time for ObamaCare to go into effect.
First, doctors will withhold pain medication from patients they’d rather not deal with anymore, and then, when the pain becomes unbearable, call in the death panelists to ask the patients if they might not prefer to simply pass away into the hereafter.
I agree, except I hope it’s a very long, painful and agonizing death.
After barely surviving a marriage to someone who got hooked on Oxycontin after surgery, then moved on to buying it pretty much in BULK on the black market, turned his own SON into a junkie (Son is fine now; clean and sober a good 5 years and away from his LOSER dad) then moved on to heroin, and in the process drained our retirement accounts, and gave ME the honor of paying HIM for his bad behavior on my divorce buy-out so I could keep MY Family Farm...
...I’m not so sure this is a bad idea! Nip it in the bud to some extent, at least. At least the OPIATE class of painkillers. There ARE other prescriptions to use to ease the pain.
*Dons Flame-Proof Thong* LOL!
You all KNOW I’m a Liberty Lover above all else, but if you’ve never traveled through THIS particular HELL as the wife of a junkie, keep your flames to yourself, because I won’t answer you. My mind is solidly made up on this issue.
It would reduce bank robberies if the government closed down all banks.
Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strap that sucker down and hear him scream!
Soooo. No pacemaker, no artificial hip - just take the pain pill.
Oops, no pain pill either.
When my revolution comes, I see gas stations and lamp posts ...
Those can be very out of whack for some people ~ or maybe even MOST people.
Interesting that the response from those in charge is to just cut the amount authorized everyone ~
That's actually very disturbing on so many levels it's difficult to believe they could come up with it. Seriously, some need more, some need less, so to deal with those who are easily addicted (or already addicted) they cut the allowable amount for everyone, even those who really do need more.
That simply doesn't follow logically from the use of the scientific method! So what's the real reason behind this? Is it possible Bloomberg has 'friends in high places' who are trying to cover for his brutality? This is what he had done when it came to his gunrunning days ~ higher ups inside the federal government decided he didn't need prosecuted for those crimes.
Must be nice to be a billionaire ~ no laws, no restrictions, no need to feel empathy..............
Most hospital ED’s are filled with drug seeking people who claim pain and go from hospital to hospital looking for narcotics... Some practical limits for frequent fliers are necessary. State or federal laws to address the problem, however, are not the answer. It can be better addressed through protocols and policies and the education of clinicians.
Central Planning and centralized micromanagement with the power and coercive power of the Police State is absolutely the worst “solution,” as usual.
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