“I can make more money spending five minutes with a patient and prescribing a pill than I can spending an hour with the patient in psychotherapy.”
Giving degrees in pschyobabble is probably one of the problems. At least the addict getting drugs feels better for a while. An hour of psycho-pseudotherapry does no patient good.
This is another 100% manufactured crisis, yet “conservatives” fall all over themselves looking for the Feds to come save them. Like dogs to vomit!
I hope all you self-righteous drug warriors contract a chronic disease that is as painful as possible. Then, let me hear you talk about keeping efficacious pain medication from patients. Opioids are addictive; however for many chronic patients, they offer the only relief. I’d rather see every addict OD than see one worthy individual denied pain meds because of some stupid federal policy.
Denying pain medication is not tantamount to torture; it is torture.
About 10 years ago, I had a fairly severe knee operation, and 5 years ago severe foot surgery with over 50 stiches and an Xray of that foot looks like an Ace Hardware ad for screws and bolts and other stainless steel stuff.
Both doctors knew that I have a high pain tolerance and responded/healed better with an injection of Toradol, a non steroidal, and an RX for 10 to 15 Toradol tabs at home.
Both doctors gave me an rx for 120 tablets of one of the Oxy products.
I took a couple tabs after each operation, hated the weird feelings and just used the Toradol and basically only about 5 days of Toradol.
When my wife, an RN and I asked the docs a few weeks post op, why I got such large scripts. They had the same response. They don’t know each other and practice surgery about 50 miles apart.
They both said, if they wrote a single RX for 120 tabs post op following a serious operation, that would not cause any concern from the DEA spooks.
They said that if they wrote an rx for 5-7 days of the Oxy stuff and they had to rewrite it a couple of times. That would flag the RX watchers/DEA Spooks.
its called joint commission...
it changed everything...
its the same with the over use of antibiotics...
if people were honest, when they went to the doctor for a sinus headache or a cold, they felt cheated if no new meds were ordered...
look in the mirror folks..
In this world you need to be strong enough to overcome drugs
Sensually the only ones that are worth shit are THC and alcohol
Only one is toxic but not very
Most other drugs especially depressants and opioids are deadly
Why anyone would voluntarily take opiates for pleasure is beyond me it’s a terrible buzz really
My famous saying is that nobody ever put that crap in your mouth or put that pill in your body
of course people can drag other people in but that’s not the problem here
This is our voluntary drug problem for the most part people are voluntarily taking these drugs thinking that it’s going to bring them some kind of pleasure
something has to be in first place.