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re: the opioid crises has taken a turn for the worse
Posted on 6/3/21 at 7:21 am to Trevaylin
Posted on 6/3/21 at 7:21 am to Trevaylin
There’s no stopping the opioid opiate crisis. Dealing with addiction issues continues to be dumped on psychiatry and I get why but the black market sells cheap, deadly, high powered heroin/fentanyl and safer pharmaceutical opioids (Percocet, Vicodin, Dilaudid) are much rarer and more expensive. I would combat it in two ways 1) Lose restrictions, or greatly reduce, on who can write for Buprenorphine 2) Make it not impossible for people who feel they need 5-10 mg of Vicodin BID to get it from their GP or similar. They might get addicted but at least they’ll be less likely to die.
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Posted on 6/3/21 at 7:28 am to armsdealer
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It is ridiculous the hoops you have to go through to get effective pain medication. Opioids should be available for sale without a prescription. Opioids are the safest most effective pain medications we have and in my opinion nobody should be able to tell you what it takes to relieve your pain. It is much better to take opioids than high levels of Tylenol... that crap will mess you up. Sure if you abuse opioids by taking them in manners not intended you can mess yourself up, but that isn't my problem, I just want my pain gone.
Is this a troll? This has to be a troll
Posted on 6/3/21 at 7:59 am to armsdealer
Why not get rid of all the hoops to jump through and create a metal electronic rechargeable pill bottle that has a USB port. Only Pharmacists have a program to plug bottle into computer to upload the script into. Bottle has a button you push to dispense a pill. It won’t dispense if you’ve taken a pill within a certain time frame the pharmacy programmed. Pills can be refilled into the bottle with a loading door that only opens when the pharmacy plugs it into their computer.
Any signs of obvious tampering to break the device or reprogram with an illicit app loses you your script
Any signs of obvious tampering to break the device or reprogram with an illicit app loses you your script
Posted on 6/3/21 at 11:29 am to Trevaylin
Been on a hydrocodone regimen for 2 decades after carving up my leg with a chainsaw. Can confirm restrictions have gotten stupid. I’m terrified of needles but I can understand how someone could get tired of jumping through the hoops and go illicit. Or, more likely, fail to jump through a certain hoop, get kicked out of pain management, then turn to the streets.
The fact is that if the enforcement efforts were curtailed, we would save lives. Fault for the current fentanyl/heroin crisis lies squarely with the typical governmental overreaching response.
The fact is that if the enforcement efforts were curtailed, we would save lives. Fault for the current fentanyl/heroin crisis lies squarely with the typical governmental overreaching response.
Posted on 6/3/21 at 12:20 pm to FCP
My mom has had 4 spinal surgery’s and has been up to 10mg Percocet QID for the past 5 years. That’s a lot but she does it as prescribed, it’s definitely not accurate to assume most pain med patients take it irresponsibly. I maintain someone taking Xanax 4 times a day long term is worse off than someone on Percocet long term.
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