re: Study: Illicit opioid deaths to rise by 147 percent by 2025

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Many get hooked because of overzealous doctors handing pills out like candy for pain relief

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Which is why I never took any of the pills I was given when I had shoulder surgery.

Too many horror stories.

Joint Commission For Accreditation was the organization that was pushing all this -5th vital sign,etc.We had a clipboard nurse coming around every day checking our charts making sure we were assessing patients for pain and giving plenty of pain meds.Nobody wanted patients to be in pain but we were obligated to give meds if patient said they were,no matter how comfortable they appeared.
Thing is hospitals are scared to death of JCAH,if hospital was cited,they would be would be re-inspected at a later date which entailed a large fee
JACH started for a good reason but it has turned into a “racket”.I am convinced that they were being paid off by drug companies.A lot of the educational material we received concerning pain etc was written by drug companies.West Virginia is suing them along with drug companies

The world needs a new effective culling

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oint Commission For Accreditation was the organization that was pushing all this -5th vital sign,etc.

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Even with the opioid crisis it is still being pushed this way.


As a nurse I HAD to document within one hour of giving an oral pain med the pain response. 30 minutes if it was an IV pain med. And you were required to assess pain at LEAST every 4 hours.

There are still survey questions that ask the patient if the staff in the hospital addressed their pain appropriately.

Problem is...people have very unrealistic expectations with pain....ESPECIALLY parents. I get it...you don't want to see your child hurting...but maybe the best pain level that we are gonna realistically get down to is a 3 and not a zero. Yet try explaining that to a parent and they will get hysterical and threaten to sue the hospital or give bad survey scores if you don't hurry up and give their child (who is now quietly playing on their ipad or texting their friends at a rapid pace) IV morphine RIGHT THIS SECOND.

Those people texting are also going online and writing a 1 Star review about how the doctors and nurses are awful and don’t treat pain appropriately

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that between 2015 and 2025, around 700,000 people are projected to die from an opioid overdose,

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So a year and 4~ months of tobacco deaths spread out over 10 years?

Yawn

I've never understood the 1-10 pain scale that medical professionals ask. I guess it's to weed out the people that are coming for pills, but if I'm up and talking to you, it couldn't worse than 6. I guess the ones coming for a prescription are always at 10.

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then smoked some about 7 years ago,

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Fish...I am shocked....

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Physical and chemical dependency whether intended or not, is very real. You're lucky you got clean. Some people spiral out of control.

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That’s the problem, everyone can become chemically dependent on different things. For some it’s pills, for others its alcohol, yet I can buy all the alcohol I want but for the pills I have to lie, beg or steal to get them. That’s the problem. At the end of the day I’d rather take a pain pill versus the other 100 prescription pills that are advertised across the tv on a daily basis.

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Weed psychosis is very real

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