Keep opioids available to those suffering from chronic pain

Posted by greg
June 27, 2008

 Newswise Medical News reports that doctors need to help those suffering with chronic pain. More and more practices are getting out of the opioid pain management business which makes it harder for patients to get the medication they need. The American Pain Society reports that less then 3% of patients abuse their pain medications so all practices need to help their patients. Even though the abuse level is quite low it is still important that doctors look for pill seeking behavior and that law enforcement work to close down Internet pharmacies and track down thieves stealing prescription pads. Together law enforcement and the medical community can create a safe environment for those suffering from difficult to treat pain while at the same time protecting society from these drugs getting out for abuse. The patients are depending on their doctors to get the medications they need because without powerful painkillers, many will suffer for nothing.

 
It is difficult to explain to doctors or others just how much pain someone with chronic pain can be dealing with. How do we realistically describe what is like to live with the feeling that your arm is being twisted off at the shoulder? For hours at a time? Torturers don’t have a thing over what I deal with in pain on a day to day basis. Without the pain medication I take on a regular basis, my life would be a living hell. I know what happens when my pain meds run out before I’m to take them next and the pain is excruciating. Bending over and crying until I can take my next pain meds in 2 hours isn’t what I call fun. There are folks dealing with this and worse and require very powerful pain medication to get through the day. It disgusts me that there are doctors that would turn these people away because they don’t want to work with someone with chronic pain. Do your job and watch over your patients so you know if there is a problem.
 
But it is easier to turn them away and blame law enforcement for making it too difficult to prescribe opiates. Now more and more patients must see pain specialists rather then the doctor that has been treating them for years to get their pain medications. Some states are reducing the number of pain doctors to make it impossible for people to get powerful pain medications. They say it is for law enforcement reasons, it is obvious to everyone else that it is a cost cutting measure. The most powerful democracy on the planet is turning away the most sick of it’s citizens on account of it is too expensive to keep them alive. Guess it may be time to start over again in the medical care business.
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Comment by LISA CRUMPLER on September 11, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

iam a nurse of 21 years.at age 15 i was in a car accident and broke my pelvis in 3 places,leaving my left leg slightly shorter than my right.now at 42 i have alot of pain and swelling in that leg and areas that broke.also scar tissue in my abd.after years of hurting i went to the doctor and was given loratab after he saw the xray of my twisted pelvis.i get 30 per month.not much but better than nothing.the other day i went for a new job that i was told i had.i went in to sign tax forms etc and take a pee test.i told them i was on loratab.10 minutes after i left the hospital my cell rang and i was told that i had to be investigated to see if i was abusing prescription drugs.they said they have to test the level of loratab in my system to see if they match my prescription.i can not work until all of this is final and it could take 3 weeks.i did not know that being on a pain medication prescribed by a doctor is all it takes to pit a person under suspsion of abusing prescription drugs.something is badly wrong with this picture

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Comment by greg on March 22, 2009 @ 8:59 pm

I would seach for opiods in Google News. That will give you an idea of what is going on in the states. There are things going on in virtually all states and none of it is helpful. Most legistators are interested in making pain pills impossible to get rather than understand the problems. No one seems to be asking what happens to the patients that need pain pills that the state takes away.

Greg

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