Fentanyl is being cut into illegal street products, particular heroin. The narrative goes - that Americans hooked on prescription opioids like oxycotin, etc... begin looking for stronger, cheaper, more easily available forms of opioids on the street, and wind up with mixtures of fentanyl, or the even stronger confentanyl, and easily overdose.
If you work the opioid prescription chain long enough you wind up on fentanyl. It is a prescribed drug. Meanwhile like all prescribed drugs that bubble the brain it’s also available outside the pharmacist. But it came into the country first because doctors were prescribing it. And it was developed because doctors keep begging for stronger and stronger opioids for their patients that have been on the opioid chain for a long time. It always starts at the prescription pad, everything else is just side effects.
Actually according to addicts, they like it because of the chance of fatality ... an added thrill if you will.
And that is only when the FEDS cut pain meds for Intractable Pain Patients. They have no cures, no meds that can mitigate their diseases, just pain meds. Which have been drastically cut, and patients are treated like street junkies even at 80 yrs old.
Richard A. (“Red”) Lawhern, Ph.D. – National Pain Report
http://nationalpainreport.com/author/redlawhern
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This is 1 issue I follow close, as I’ve several friends in this boat. And the media and medical community use the wrong term, Chronic Pain may last several months maybe a year. And other treatments can mitigate the pain, like ice packs, message, Dry Cupping, or Acupuncture, or surgery.
Had thumb surgery for a blown base joint and trigger lock, got 30, 7.5 mg Norco for post surgery, NO REFILLS, DON’T EVEN ASK FOR IT FOR PT; the cast put pressure on the wrist nerves. Thumb is frozen, and will always be, but the damage to the rest of the hand came from the hard cast. I’m on my 3rd Medicare/Tricare Life approved Rehab session, for a total of 12 weeks, and can still barely use my Dominate Right hand, fine motor skills gone, pain constant, and no med for it. Tylenol doesn’t work, Ice Pack will for as long as it’s on. We started Dry Cupping last week and see more gross motor skill and pain reduction in the fingers and wrist. But it won’t be fully normal for at least a year. If then. Index finger is stiff like it’s frozen too, where it wasn’t before the surgery. Can now lift 1 lb with pain.
INTRACTABLE PAIN is 24/7/365 for life. It puts you in a wheelchair or bedridden most of the time. And on Disability, where you could still work if pain was reduced to a more manageable level.