the opioid crises has taken a turn for the worse

New regulations in Texas that are pushed by the fed cdc are causing all family practitioners to refuse to play with the new opiod rules, making them unavailable to senior citizens without getting into a drug rehab program.

Drug rehab centers for senior citizens are established and the one I went had the following attributes

Run by an anesthesiologist who must verify your ailment by starting with new baseline lab work such as MRI', X-rays , pee, inhalation etc. The fact that you are slated for knee replacement in weeks is not enough. I asked him to verify by calling the orthopedist that had the knee models but not acceptable.
Wife with polio resulting in 100% loss of muscle in one leg and 50% in the other was told she needed a back MRI to confirm injury exist, Results said it was nerve damage[no sh-t, its polio] and she will have to attend a neurologist in ??????Houston 200 miles away. for a drug she has used for 35 years
to continue in the program, I would have to go home ,count the number of tramadol pills I had , and report my inventory each month at my appointment.
to continue I had to do a drug pee test at each m monthly appointment.

On my way out I passed 22 senior citizens waiting for their appointment, ready to confess how many pills taken, do a pee test get the go ahead to pick up another 30 day scrip.

By the way all pain scrips have to be logged electronically to a cdc data base to be used by the fbi


The use of fentanyl is going up as fast as opioids going down. Could there be a relationship. kinda like the lab or wet market discussion. the fed govt wants to control my life down to minute