What is criminal is not being able to get oxycodone when needed. Addictive personalities will get hooked on sugar pills, for chrissakes! It is damn impossible to get pain meds when you need them.
Find yourself a female pharmacist as in most things, that gender shows compassion. I am no longer treated as a pariah, well not in this situation, and it was a man hobbling in on a cane who well advised me.
I spent the night in the hospital once. Another patient in the room had a morphine drip that he could press a button for more if he needed. He mostly moaned quietly. I suspected that if I was in the same situation, I’d sound like the telegraph operator on the Titanic.
@gobin56 The real problem is who we send to the state capitol. But ,alas, I don’t look for a brighter future in the Red states; we seem to breed constituents who lost it (sanity, compassion, decency, charity) all at birth.
Why do we always blame anyone or anything except the person who is really responsible. The person who took the pills is the one who is responsible .
New rules and regulations have made it difficult (if not impossible) for people who need pain relief and use the drugs responsibly to get what they need.
The government needs to quit trying to save the few by hurting the many.
The problem lingers because there are so few in our congress that have the advanced math and science skills to use evidence based data instead of political dogma to make pragmatic decisions.
DEA just screwed up again by resisting taking Marijuana off of Schedule I, and moving it down to having legitimate medical uses so it can be “researched” here as much as it has in like well, Israel, where they proved a long time ago that marijuana is not only more effective than opiates for most conditions, it’s also impossible to OD on it, and is much safer.
Yes, “big pharma” has a lot to lose with expansion of marijuana use for medical, but they’re working hard to be able to license and control sale of this natural product. When they get that, we’ll see massive action in Congress to get them set up to run the whole show. The bus loads of lobbyists are already active, so it was a surprise DEA didn’t change their tune this time around.
Odon Premium Member over 7 years ago
Marijuana can help many who have real needs to alleviate pain.
superposition over 7 years ago
https://www.thefix.com/content/economic-inequality-and-addiction8202
Crabbyrino Premium Member over 7 years ago
What is criminal is not being able to get oxycodone when needed. Addictive personalities will get hooked on sugar pills, for chrissakes! It is damn impossible to get pain meds when you need them.
kaffekup over 7 years ago
It’s funny how you never heard the word “opioids” until white, middle-class people started getting addicted…Now it’s the republican cause celebre.
jessie d. Premium Member over 7 years ago
@magicwalnut,
Find yourself a female pharmacist as in most things, that gender shows compassion. I am no longer treated as a pariah, well not in this situation, and it was a man hobbling in on a cane who well advised me.
Kip W over 7 years ago
I spent the night in the hospital once. Another patient in the room had a morphine drip that he could press a button for more if he needed. He mostly moaned quietly. I suspected that if I was in the same situation, I’d sound like the telegraph operator on the Titanic.
jessie d. Premium Member over 7 years ago
@gobin56 The real problem is who we send to the state capitol. But ,alas, I don’t look for a brighter future in the Red states; we seem to breed constituents who lost it (sanity, compassion, decency, charity) all at birth.
BigShell over 7 years ago
So the problem is overperscription.
Why do we always blame anyone or anything except the person who is really responsible. The person who took the pills is the one who is responsible .
New rules and regulations have made it difficult (if not impossible) for people who need pain relief and use the drugs responsibly to get what they need.
The government needs to quit trying to save the few by hurting the many.
superposition over 7 years ago
The problem lingers because there are so few in our congress that have the advanced math and science skills to use evidence based data instead of political dogma to make pragmatic decisions.
Dtroutma over 7 years ago
DEA just screwed up again by resisting taking Marijuana off of Schedule I, and moving it down to having legitimate medical uses so it can be “researched” here as much as it has in like well, Israel, where they proved a long time ago that marijuana is not only more effective than opiates for most conditions, it’s also impossible to OD on it, and is much safer.
Yes, “big pharma” has a lot to lose with expansion of marijuana use for medical, but they’re working hard to be able to license and control sale of this natural product. When they get that, we’ll see massive action in Congress to get them set up to run the whole show. The bus loads of lobbyists are already active, so it was a surprise DEA didn’t change their tune this time around.