Did you know that pharmaceutical companies paid doctors to prescribe opioids, creating a heroin epidemic, and made billions of dollars doing it?
Did you know that pharmaceutical companies paid doctors to prescribe opioids, creating a heroin epidemic, and made billions of dollars doing it?
Yeah probably, opioid related deaths went up 30% last year in the US. The pandemic also doesn't help. But I swear some doctors don't think and just take the latest advice and apply it to everyone. Like yeah it's very wrong to prescribe opioids to most people, it's completely unnecessary and risky, but they exist for a reason. Some people really need them after a serious injury or illness. Check out some horror stories on the chronic pain subreddit (I know Reddit sucks, but yeah) about doctors not using common sense.
I mean, what would you do if a family member died of an opioid overdose after years of addiction that began with an overly generous pain prescription after a broken bone??
Hypothetically of course.
I mean that's why I said opioids are bad for most people. You have to control the situation a lot, and there needs to be guidance. You can't just send someone away with a large box of strong pills. My doctor for instance weaned me off the really strong medication after it wasn't necessary any more after an operation. You can't allow dependancy or tolerance to build up.
If I, or anyone else died from addiction caused by opioids it would be very sad. I wouldn't be able to blame my doctor because they did the right thing with dosages, etc to prevent any dependancy from forming. But if they just kept prescriping the really strong meds then yeah I'd be very resentful towards them.
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Oh yeah i understand. There are tons of people who need them who now can’t get them, because the government allowed pay for play prescribing by scumbag doctors to anyone and everyone. In Europe that never would have been allowed, meaning no backlash would’ve been triggered.
Welcome to Puritan ass America.
I suggest drinking yourself to death or getting a gun and leveling the playing field. Obviously the latter only in minecraft.
I not American so no gun lol. I was just commenting on the general situation there, the new CDC guidelines for prescribing medicine look disastrous to me.
Which ones?
Piss test before starting opioid therapy, searching up people on the state portal for previous drug use, prescription or criminal offences, Nonpharmacologic therapy being forced onto everyone even in cases where it provides no benefit. Yeah physiotherapy is great for a ton of conditions, it helps me a lot, but a cancer patient is not going to benefit much from that when their pain is coming from chemo and their tumours.
Stuff like this is just going to fuel the drug crisis because people will turn to illegal hard drugs. Despite doctors in the US prescribing around 50% less opioids now than they did 8 years ago, opioid related deaths and overdoses are still rising, because people now are just take street opioids