It's ok a doctor prescribed it!

Al Jazeera ^ | May 7th 2011 | John Terrett

[Cardhu]

AlJazeera is only for the movers and shakers in Washington and the rest of the world.

Do not watch it! :)

[Cardhu]

AlJazeera is only for the movers and shakers in Washington and the rest of the world.

Do not watch it! :)

[RipSawyer]

Heaven waits for me I know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSaq6gxybgc

[When do we get liberated?]

I just saw this first hand a few weeks ago. My ex, whom I lived with for ten years and still talk to, was always a bit depressed. A forty hour a week job was typical and she was functional. She started going to a doctor for it a few years ago. She gave her a prescription. Then that didn’t work anymore so she got anouther one. then this prescription was interacting with anouther one so she needed anouther one. Long story short she is on disability (too messed up to do anything but collect drugs and money from the govt.) and has 13 prescriptions she takes daily.
When she has a bad spell it is never because she is a junkie, she just needs to get her meds adjusted which invariably means she needs more. I told her just because her drug dealer has a PhD, doesn’t mean she isn’t a junkie. Sad story.

[Ghengis]

Coal mining, oil/gas development and manufacturing went south in the Ohio River valley in the 1970's and all services that supported it. So the rust belt is a large factor in Ohio Appalachian poverty as well as agriculture. I never would have left SE Ohio if not for those factors coming together as I came to adulthood in the latter part of the 70's.

As for lacking in charm, I like the people in Portsmouth, Gallopolis, Belpre, Marietta and on and on just fine. Sure, the ratio of dregs to good folks is higher than in the past. But there's also still plenty of decent, honest people. I have great respect for those that uphold their Appalachian roots. There's still folks down there that do that down there.

[Rudder]

I live near here and while there is Scioto County (Sy-oh-toe), there’s also Newark (Nerk).

[buccaneer81]

When I mentioned “charm,” I didn’t mean the people (I apologize for that.) I meant Southern Ohio doesn’t have the same feel as WVA or Kentucky. Yes, they all look alike to a point, but in Ohio it just seems so much more depressing.

[NWFLConservative]

I misspoke a bit on that procedure. I asked my wife about it again and apparently she wore some kind of device which received the images wirelessly from the camera. The images were downloaded off that and the camera was just passed in the stool and sent to the sewage treatment plant, having served its purpose!

[cherry]

there is a whole sub culture of people addicted to "legal" drugs...

they come into the ER...describe vague pain that will take blood tests and radiology tests to explain and when they are all normal , the person gets pain meds prescribed OR they get admitted and put on a Dilaudid pain machine.....because drs and hospitals MUST try to relieve pain...its a "patient right" issue...

funny how all these adicts are allergic to Darvon,Ultram,NSAIDS,etc...funny how they HAVE to have dilaudid....they even know how high you should set the machine and God help you if you don't set it high enough...

sometimes these addicts will simply get Dilaudid IV shots every 3-4 hrs...but they also will ask for Phenegan injections AND benadryl at the same time....no high too good for our addicts...

you wouldn't believe how many youngish patients are on huge doses of oxy....for their "back" pain etc...

[LadyDoc]

yeah. They buy it on the street.

I had a patient die of a MSContin overdose...she stole them from her cousin (also a patient of mine) who had metastatic cancer.

Then there was the lost pain pills for one of our chronic pain patients. After the second time she “lost” them, we put on a patch, and her daughter came into the ER withdrawing. That was before the druggies learned to soak the patch and inject the medicine.

Then there was a 13 year old girl (not my patient) who was told at a party “drink this and get high”. She did, and died. Where did the morphine syrup come from ? The other teen got it from the medicine cabinet after her grandmother died of cancer.

So do they get these from pill mills, or from ordinary docs? Or do they steal them?

The end result will be more people suffering more pain...

[Ghengis]

I was not trying to be offended. But you have to understand that kicking my people in the shins will get my hackles up a bit. ;-)

I agree that there is a depressed feeling. Really on both sides of the river. The northeasterners exploited the natural resources. Now the region is trying to figure out what it is again.