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Tell your democrat friends to stop catering to illegal immigrants. I want them to feel pain.
It's fashionable to care about illegal migrants and it's fashionable to consume illegal drugs.
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Tell your democrat friends to stop catering to illegal immigrants. I want them to feel pain.
We are fortunate to some degree that Ontario was ahead of the curve.
I have a prescription for opiates that gets renewed when I run out. I use maybe about 50 tablets in a year.
But from what I have seen, the Sackler's managed to create a nation of addicts in the US and someone has to wean people away from thinking that opiates are the magic bullet.
Tell your democrat friends to stop catering to illegal immigrants. I want them to feel pain.
Hmm... Smells like a big pharma conspiracy to me, no?I've been surprised at the Sackler protests. The one targeting the Guggenheim last week was surprising.
The pendulum has swung twice on this issue. We were always warned about prescribing opiates and the risk of addiction... until the early 1990s.
Somewhere around 1993, we were told that there were new studies and that the risk of opiate addiction was low when patients were in pain. The pharmaceutical industry told us that we were undertreating pain. Hospitals were pushed by the consultants and regulatory organizations to assess pain by asking the patient to rate their pain on a scale of 1-10. If the patient assessed their pain high (e.g. 8, 9 or 10) they got opiates. It didn't take patients long to figure out what number to answer.
Somewhere around 2015, the States started cracking down on pain clinics. It seems that the studies that the pharmaceutical companies had been pushing saying that we were undertreating pain and that patients in pain couldn't become addicted weren't accurate. Over the course of the 20 years between the early 90s and 2015, we had created thousands of opiate addicts who were either getting massive amounts of opiates to feed their addictions, or they were switching to street drugs like heroin. Because there was so much abuse, the States really cracked down and they changed their laws- for example, in many States you have to go to the physician's office and get a prescription for controlled substances that is printed on special paper that can't be photocopied or forged.
So now the pendulum has swung back to the way it used to be... and the amount of opiates that we prescribe is heavily monitored. Drugs that were in the lower class of controlled substances (like Vicodin) were rescheduled by the government and are now in Schedule CII which is very closely monitored by the DEA.
Hmm... Smells like a big pharma conspiracy to me, no?
How? Why? What's the difference?
The whole thread in general. If OP is pissed off at Trump, he should've posted his rant on the appropriate thread.There are 644 posts in that thread. To which one are you referring?
The whole thread in general. If OP is pissed off at Trump, he should've posted his rant on the appropriate thread.
There's no connection between either President and what is going on with opiate prescriptions. The crackdown on opiate prescriptions and pain clinics started at the State level in 2014-2015. The Feds were very slow to address the issue- primarily because the pharmaceutical industry is the largest donor in Federal elections.
Expect that it's going to be increasingly difficult to get opiates for anything but extreme pain. Unless you have a terminal illness or unless you have a referral to an anesthesiology specialist, you can expect that you will be given a very limited number of doses of opiates. Don't be surprised if you they suggest you see an addiction specialist.
He doesn't have anything to do with access to pain meds. But it's a nice thought.
There's no connection between either President and what is going on with opiate prescriptions. The crackdown on opiate prescriptions and pain clinics started at the State level in 2014-2015. The Feds were very slow to address the issue- primarily because the pharmaceutical industry is the largest donor in Federal elections.
Expect that it's going to be increasingly difficult to get opiates for anything but extreme pain. Unless you have a terminal illness or unless you have a referral to an anesthesiology specialist, you can expect that you will be given a very limited number of doses of opiates. Don't be surprised if you they suggest you see an addiction specialist.
He doesn't have anything to do with access to pain meds. But it's a nice thought.
...if you look up the definition of sociopath you'll see he also shares many other traits with those diagnosed with this disorder.
... God...reason...
There's really no difference. It's a load of nonsense that the pharmaceutical companies have promoted along with their assurances that "this newest opioid has low potential for abuse".....By the way I’ve never taken opiates in my life the only thing I took were opioids. Opiates are another story and different then opioids...
....They won’t treat chronic pain to avoid addiction...
