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Post by ropetski on Mar 17, 2016 21:52:26 GMT
Glad to see that the government is realizing that people becoming addicted to pain killers are trying and becoming addicted to heroin. Maybe reducing the length of time people are on a prescribed pain killer would reduce the chance for them to end up using heroin and ending up being addicted to that street drug???
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Post by jgrube on Mar 19, 2016 19:27:21 GMT
Pain killer addiction can happen quickly that can lead into higher drugs to deal with.
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Post by stevejackowski on Mar 21, 2016 17:40:36 GMT
This is a huge problem. Prescribers are giving out outrageously potent painkillers for no good reason. My pops just had rotator cuff surgery and the ortho surgeon gave a script for oxy with 2 refills as well as a script for 30 percocet! Seriously? Additionally, giving opioids can increase opioid induced constipation which may cause increased problems in the geriatric population particularly. Reducing the number of pills per script as well as allowing no refills unless the pt has a serious chronic condition or serious post op pain is a great place to start...And even then, the meds should be heavily monitored with fairly frequent periods of assessments for pt safety. This problem stems in part from laziness from the providers and/or lack of pharma knowledge. This same concept can be applied to the misuse of antibiotics which is another huge problem but that is for another thread.
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Post by tommy2 on Mar 22, 2016 19:23:04 GMT
Yes they are getting addicted quite often I know of a few people who have and are still addicted. Like all other drugs it pulls them in to chase that high.
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Post by local32 on Mar 24, 2016 2:25:09 GMT
There a lot more doctors that are working on this now than there were 10 years ago. it is going to take time
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Post by jdesarro on Mar 25, 2016 2:30:30 GMT
As long as the pharmaceutical companies continue to pay the doctor's based on the number of script's that are written we may continue to have a problem. I feel we need to start to get away from the mindset of "zero" pain. I believe it creates a false sense of healing and causes the person to chase the "high" whenever they have an ache or pain.
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Post by asubaldo on Mar 27, 2016 0:58:45 GMT
I don't reducing the time would necessarily reduce the chances of someone becoming addicted to pain killers. Like someone previously mentioned, the onset of addiction can happen fairly quickly, especially with its involvement in the reward pathway.
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Post by skiechj on Apr 2, 2016 0:49:49 GMT
Pharmaceutical companies are not paying doctors by script. Especially the companies creating the generic medications which are the bulk of over prescription. Pharma companies provide lunches and dinners and provider doctors with taxed stipends if they speak on behalf of a drug.
It is the mindset of "zero" pain that created the problem though. It has long since been the idea in medicine that I have to provide complete analgesia to my patient. In many cases this is absolutely true, the bilateral femur fracture, child with spiral fracture, etc.. These are acute conditions, the pain passes rather quickly. There are however millions of chronic pain patients across the country with legitimate conditions which cause them severe chronic pain. Many "old school" trained doctors believe "load em up" they shouldn't be in any pain. These doctors are either not trained on the myriad of other medications there are to manage pain, synthetic opiates and other analogues, or they don't have the resources to manage the insurance loopholes to prescribe these medications, prior authroizations etc. Therefore they result to prescribing the good old fashioned hydros and oxys in ever increasing numbers.
Or it's patients complain that nothing is working, that they need higher and higher doses because they are no longer getting the high they want...
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Post by ctullar on Apr 7, 2016 0:23:18 GMT
Doctors are compensated by pharmaceutical companies, that is why so many prescriptions are being written, and that's why drug prices are through the roof. That is my opinion by the way.
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Post by joshambrose on Apr 8, 2016 1:19:14 GMT
It doesn't help that when you go to the hospital for a minor bump or bruise that the doctor prescribes a mild to high does narcotic. What ever happened to the days of take 2 aspirin and give me a call if anything "worse" happens.
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Post by jules on Apr 9, 2016 18:14:20 GMT
It doesn't help that when you go to the hospital for a minor bump or bruise that the doctor prescribes a mild to high does narcotic. What ever happened to the days of take 2 aspirin and give me a call if anything "worse" happens. I agree to some extent, but that's not always true. More and more doctors are being carefully looked at and investigated and are losing their license to practice due to prescribing large numbers and high doses of narcotics to pt's. I'm not saying it DOESN'T happen, but things are beginning to change and they ARE actually tightening up how they hand these types of medications out. I think there is more of a problem with people buying these types of narcotics off the streets and unfortunately, we are the one's transporting them for a BS complaint which is sometimes not even legit, but so that they can attempt to get more meds. With new medical software in place, hopefully this will all begin to cease and people could find some relief from any pain they may have or get the help they need to get off that addiction. |
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Post by jackief on Apr 13, 2016 2:25:42 GMT
NYS just implemented more rigid prescribing regulations for controlled substances. Although there are some exceptions, the new guidelines present an avenue for more stringent tracking of controlled substances and prescribers will be more hesitant to over prescribe moving forward.
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