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re: I was appointed to the AL Council on Opiod Misuse and Addiction (UPDATE #2)
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:48 pm to BamaCoaster
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:48 pm to BamaCoaster
Propose addiction be considered a pre-existing condition and once a person seeks help they won't be able to get insurance.
Suddenly Obamacare will have a lot of supporters.
Suddenly Obamacare will have a lot of supporters.
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Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:49 pm to boomertoomer
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boomertoomer
Pot does wonders for palsy. It is truly criminal to not allow people with this condition to get a natural medicine that literally stops the shakes and trembles.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:50 pm to BamaCoaster
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I have a column on al.com that I write once or twice a month about local issues.
I have written about drug policy in the past and last month wrote a column about this task force and begged them to do the right thing.
I got a call from the director of public policy from Bentley's office and he asked me to be on the committee.
"Someone 'high up' had read my column, then read others, and wanted to get my view" he said.
I worked at a think tank in DC for awhile and wrote a white paper on the coming heroin epidemic in 2013.
awesome man, keep fighting the good fight.
don't hesitate to keep us updated with your experience.
This post was edited on 1/23/17 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:51 pm to BamaCoaster
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Decriminalized drugs (Portugese model)
Has worked very well there. However, they do not have multiple cartels running the country on their border. Worth considering, IMO.
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Oregon: making it more difficult to get scripts by having extra loopholes to jump through
Vermont: increased access to buprenorphine (much better than methadone)
Good ideas. Go git 'er done. Who'd think it? Alabama a leader in innovative solutions to drugs and addiction.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:53 pm to crazy4lsu
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It has allowed me to avoid taking opiods completely.
In an ideal world, this would be the goal. Once you get a taste, you want more.
However, this committee will most likely be chaired by doctors, and no offense to any doctors out there, but this is akin to the wolves guarding the hen house.
Our goal should be to decrease drug dependency.
Fun fact #2: It is estimated that nearly 65% of all Alabama prisoners are addicts.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:53 pm to BamaCoaster
So...free samples?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:55 pm to ljhog
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Alabama a leader in innovative solutions to drugs and addiction.
This is going to be my biggest play.
Asking everyone to consider what a reform impact would have not only to our neighbors, but other states as well, cause if Alabama can reform drug policy, then every state who has not should be embarrassed.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:55 pm to BamaCoaster
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Medical Marijuana
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Montgomery
Yeah let me know how that works out. Bunch of regressed assholes down there.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:55 pm to BamaCoaster
I have had to take opioids before, and they are the worst drug a human can take. My skin was crawling after two hours. It is criminal MM is not an option.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:57 pm to 4Ghost
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4Ghost
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This issue. Is personal to me. Racked my family, hard!
There is probably not a family in America that has not been impacted by addiction. You're not alone.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 6:58 pm to BamaCoaster
I had a friend just OD and pass away a couple of weeks ago. We are both from Montgomery. shite sucks. Such a shame.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:01 pm to Funky Tide 8
I have lost a couple as well.
Some are addicted and comeback to life, but very slowly.
Some have passed.
Others might of well be deceased, cause nobody has anything to do with them anymore.
I'm praying that some good will come out of this committee.
Some are addicted and comeback to life, but very slowly.
Some have passed.
Others might of well be deceased, cause nobody has anything to do with them anymore.
I'm praying that some good will come out of this committee.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:01 pm to BamaCoaster
I understand the need was there to curb the pill mills and the doctor shopping and I'm totally fine with the new policies put in place (urine testing by docs, prescription monitoring, etc.) but the state of Alabama, has in the process, fricked over a TON of legitimate pain patients.
Within a 2 week period in December we lost 2 very good pain docs not due to any illegal things being done in their practices but by the state forcing them to close by using Medicare and Medicaid to refuse their billings.
There has got to be a happy medium somewhere that keeps the pill mills and drug seekers in check but still allows real people in pain - who don't abuse their medicine but are physically dependent - to get their medication.
Law makers don't seem to get that there is a difference between abuse and dependence. There are plenty of patients that are taking their opioids as directed and have been for years that are getting left in the cold in the state's zeal to not be number one on the list of "Opioid Prescriptions Per Capita".
And tell them there is a reason for the spike in heroin use - it correlates directly to the state's black and white policy on opioids.
I'd sincerely love to spend some time talking to them about what I've experienced as both a member of the healthcare community and as a patient.
Within a 2 week period in December we lost 2 very good pain docs not due to any illegal things being done in their practices but by the state forcing them to close by using Medicare and Medicaid to refuse their billings.
There has got to be a happy medium somewhere that keeps the pill mills and drug seekers in check but still allows real people in pain - who don't abuse their medicine but are physically dependent - to get their medication.
Law makers don't seem to get that there is a difference between abuse and dependence. There are plenty of patients that are taking their opioids as directed and have been for years that are getting left in the cold in the state's zeal to not be number one on the list of "Opioid Prescriptions Per Capita".
And tell them there is a reason for the spike in heroin use - it correlates directly to the state's black and white policy on opioids.
I'd sincerely love to spend some time talking to them about what I've experienced as both a member of the healthcare community and as a patient.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:01 pm to BamaCoaster
Im not sure pushing the decriminalization of drugs is a good idea, small steps, you will be dealing with with people like Cam Ward and Mack Butler and just the mention of that will get you laughed at, both of them were convinced Alabama was full of strung out kratom junkies dying in the streets even when presented with evidence during the kratom wars, i can only imagine their head exploding at the thought of legalization or decriminalization
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:02 pm to BamaCoaster
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All good and well, but we are focused on Alabama, so we have no control over that.
So Alabama no longer has congressmen or senators?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:03 pm to BamaCoaster
Treating it as a medical condition needs to be high on the list. The extra jail time route doesn't seem to be working.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:08 pm to BamaCoaster
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Decriminalized drugs (Portugese model)
As in governmentally ran crack houses where they can get free dope and a clean needle. This won't go to well with those backwoods, sister kissing law makers in your great state.
Just show them season 4 of The Wire and see if Bubs and McNulty can sit in with you.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:09 pm to upgrayedd
I'm not an addict and never have been but I've always had this question. If a person is addicted to heroin, crack, meth, or whatever drug and you take them off of it and then put them on methadone or another drug are you giving them a crutch to come off of everything or just swapping their addiction habits to something else?
I realize the goal is to get them off of everything but like an alcoholic they have to want to help themselves before they can be helped.
I realize the goal is to get them off of everything but like an alcoholic they have to want to help themselves before they can be helped.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:12 pm to BamaCoaster
I blame the increase in heroin deaths on the DEA. They went after the doctors, the doctors quit prescribing the pills which has an identifier. That left the patient/addict 2 options...get help or buy brown Mexican shite heroin with no identifier, thus the increase in heroin and the increase in deaths. I have yet to figure out how someone can OD on pills.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 7:17 pm to BamaCoaster
My advise as a prescriber is to figure out a way to make it damn near impossible to give an opioid Rx to someone that legitimately needs it.
God forbid the state holds the abusers responsible for the problem for this issue.
It maybe an interesting subject at your meeting to discuss the pain relief needs of legitimate patients.
God forbid the state holds the abusers responsible for the problem for this issue.
It maybe an interesting subject at your meeting to discuss the pain relief needs of legitimate patients.
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