“Exactly. It’s almost impossible to get any Pain meds because of the Puritans.
Pretty soon, even cancer patients won’t be able to get any pain medication. Ridiculous.”
The geniuses here in VA changed state law.
All pain patients are being shoved into Pain Management clinics.
Problem is Medicare and insurance considers that specialty treatment with a larger co-pay and they pay little to nothing of the treatment.
The pain management docs don’t prescribe any opiods but demand monthly drug tests, that insurance doesn’t pay for, to make sure you aren’t getting pain meds elsewhere.
I know one woman whose shoulder is so bad that it’s bone on bone. She came down with the flu so her surgery was put off six months.
They are giving her steroid shots but nothing for pain.
Screwed up!
A friend of mine has neuropathy, like me, and his insurance forced him into pain management nine years ago.
He figures he has spent $20,000 out of pocket in that time.
His wife had to go back to work full time at the age of 68 so they could afford the pain docs.
And he lives with intense pain every day.
I met a couple who were talking about getting hydrocodone from a drug dealer so the wife could get a few hours sleep at night.
That is an absolute disgrace.
I suspect that many people who use internet drug sites are normal, law-abiding people who just want men’s to ease their pain.
Just because some addicts abuse opioids doesn’t make it right to deny pain meds to people who need them.
The ironic thing is that “dark web” sites that sell drugs are much safer than acquiring drugs on the street because those sites have rating systems for every seller.
The so-called War on Drugs has gone way too far.