Plenty of other options for pain management. The opiod addiction issue is out of control. My brother and sister-in-law both are recovering addicts, clean for almost 4 years now. It’s a scourge.
Plenty of other options for pain management
Not all options work. Broken bone or surgery pain is awful. Cant imagine taking a Tylenol.
Oh really? Tell me about those options please.
That’s wonderful for your in-laws. Not everyone who walks into a hospital ER is an addict or will become one. Jeez. The way this country looks at addiction.
Plenty of other options for pain management. The opiod addiction issue is out of control. My brother and sister-in-law both are recovering addicts, clean for almost 4 years now. It’s a scourge.
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The irresponsibility of addicts and enablers should not take away the tools available to doctors to treat patients.
Rubbish. You wake up with massive pain and compound fractures and when they hand you a Tylenol, I’m sure you’ll be fine with that because people abuse opioids.
People abuse alcohol and it is out of control, ready to ban that yet and that is a recreational drug?
That's right, ban something that would help the majority because of a small minority. The liberal way.
I'm not saying there aren't. I'm noting that, in the article, there is no mention of alternatives. I'm still curious.
I take it you’ve never had a broken bone that had to be re-set without surgery.
I certainly wouldn’t want to show up that hospital with a broken bone. Someone should give Dr. Rosenberg a badly fractured wrist, and then discuss pain management for acute pain with him.
Indeed, they seem to have it backwards. They should be limiting opioids to acute cases, and banning them for chronic conditions. A week or so of painkillers won’t cause addiction. It’s the long term use for chronic pain management that’s causing the problem.
I recently had surgery which was quite painful and was prescribed these type of drugs for pain. I took a whopping total of three and then trashed the remainder and took regular Tylenol. Those three pills over a three day period clogged me up like a cheap toilet in a Chinese Ghost City apartment on the 50th floor!
I have had employees that worked for me over the years on these and watching them disintegrate in front of your eyes from funny, smart and beautiful women into hags in a stupor is sad. They lost their jobs and lives in the process.
Your in-laws probably made their own choices.
Unbelievable! The worst pain I ever had in my life was when I had pleurisy, it took an hour to crawl from my bed to the phone to call the ambulance, the 2nd worst pain was when I had my aneurism.
They gave me large doses of oxycontin in both cases, and I don’t know what i would have done without that, at least for the day I was in the ER.
I was in such pain that I literally was screaming and about to either vomit or pass out.
What would they have me do, with this policy? Drink a slug of whiskey and bite on a pencil??
Ed
You’re wrong dear
Every medicinal pain Med that works is opiodal or opiodal derived
Ultram is trash
Anything else is a nerve blocker and has its own side effects
I’ve been dealing with this a while
6-7 years
Steroids and opiods
You either take them responsibly so they work or you overdo it and they become ineffective
We don’t all do the latter