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Who is to blame with regards to the prescription drug dependency in America
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:48 am
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:48 am
Hard to really pin it down to one group. I'm referring to pain killers mainly.
Is it the insurance companies who put emphasis on patient satisfaction surveys where if patients don't get what they want they just complain and reimbursement goes down?
Is it the patients for not heeding the doctor's advice that they're not indicated for their pain and Doctor shopping until they get one who will do it?
Is it the doctor's fault for being a candy shop? Or are they just so sick of the patient satisfaction surveys and patients who won't stop badgering them until they get what they want. And then once they're addicted to the pain killers and the patients can't get them anymore, they turn to heroin.
It's all multifactorial. But all of this is about to come to a head now that it's becoming harder to both prescribe and obtain these drugs. Now the guidlelines for chronic opioid pain killers have gotten so strict that if you start going against them and prescribing them for patients and they OD, their family would likely have a case to sue the doctor I would imagine.
Not to mention now NPs and PAs can't prescribe them on their own anymore.
Is it the insurance companies who put emphasis on patient satisfaction surveys where if patients don't get what they want they just complain and reimbursement goes down?
Is it the patients for not heeding the doctor's advice that they're not indicated for their pain and Doctor shopping until they get one who will do it?
Is it the doctor's fault for being a candy shop? Or are they just so sick of the patient satisfaction surveys and patients who won't stop badgering them until they get what they want. And then once they're addicted to the pain killers and the patients can't get them anymore, they turn to heroin.
It's all multifactorial. But all of this is about to come to a head now that it's becoming harder to both prescribe and obtain these drugs. Now the guidlelines for chronic opioid pain killers have gotten so strict that if you start going against them and prescribing them for patients and they OD, their family would likely have a case to sue the doctor I would imagine.
Not to mention now NPs and PAs can't prescribe them on their own anymore.
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:50 am to tiger1014
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Is it the doctor's fault for being a candy shop?
Yes
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:50 am to tiger1014
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Hard to really pin it down to one group
The doctors who knowingly over diagnose and write the prescriptions with too many pills and too many refills.
It's not that hard to pin it down
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:50 am to tiger1014
Drug lobbies.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:51 am to tiger1014
Having trouble getting your pills?
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:51 am to tiger1014
Combination of a lot of stuff. But local, state and federal governments should also catch a lot of heat.
Why? Because legalizing weed in all forms would seriously curb this opioid epidemic.
Why? Because legalizing weed in all forms would seriously curb this opioid epidemic.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:52 am to tiger1014
Considering how much training doctors go through, it's pretty clear that they are infallible and off the hook on this one.
So by process of elimination, I'd blame it on the nurse practitioners. And the Jews.
So by process of elimination, I'd blame it on the nurse practitioners. And the Jews.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:53 am to High C
Doctors have become drug dealers, pushing pills for the Pharmaceutical companies.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:54 am to tiger1014
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:54 am to stlslick
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Doctors have become drug dealers, pushing pills for the Pharmaceutical companies.
Agreed but no one is forcing you to take them.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:55 am to tiger1014
You forgot the manufacturers who create misleading and false information about what their drugs can do. For instance, Fentanyl is ONLY allowed for cancer patients with break through pain; however, they market that Fentanyl is effective for back pains, arthritis, etc....
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:56 am to LucasP
The Jews? They only loan money to the addicts and then make movies about addicts. They're completely tangential.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:56 am to tiger1014
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Is it the doctor's fault for being a candy shop?
Yes. The insurance companies try everything they can to get patients off of these expensive drugs.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:57 am to tiger1014
Doctors. Pure and simple. They can stop it right now if they wanted to.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:57 am to tiger1014
Not hard at all, big Pharma.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:57 am to PillPusher
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PillPusher
How apt.....
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:59 am to tiger1014
Patients have to shoulder some of the blame. We have become conditioned to expect that a treatment or medication is necessary for every ache or pain.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:01 pm to Eightballjacket
Mostly the physicians who write them.
Then patients.
Then patients.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:01 pm to Eightballjacket
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We have become conditioned to expect that a treatment or medication is necessary for every ache or pain.
At which point the doctor should intervene.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:04 pm to tiger1014
Seems genetic to me. Some people become addicted easily. Other people can't stand taking any kind of pain meds (myself included).
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