Hello there,
I have been using opioids for 34 years. I wouldn’t be alive without them and could not continue to live without them. Until medical science and research comes up with a better alternative or even something remotely equivalent, it should be a patients personal right to continue to have access to them through prescriptions from their doctor or the physician, “Palliative Care” who treats them.
The reasons of why or what for are in the end, frankly irrelevant to treating the level of pain caused by whatever factors are present. The fact is and remains, when opioids are the most effective and only effective treatment available, that’s what a patient should take and have access too,
Just like a diabetic gaining access to insulin to continue living. You don’t tell a diabetic that the long term use of insulin is or can be harmful to health of your other organs, it’s a secondary consideration when being more concerned with your ability to survive and continue living takes precedent!
Thes’s been far too much mis information, disinformation and lack of factual information regarding the responsible use of opioids by the responsible patients who use them and the doctors who dispense them,
This totally ridiculous “War on Drugs” has become totally ineffective and ends up punishing the legitimate pain patients who rely upon them for their quality of life and their ability to continue living at all.
The facts are extremely clear in addition to the statistics that long term, appropriately prescribed and patient usage of opioids cause very little problems, overdose deaths or other inappropriate factors associated with taking them,
FACT: The overwhelming cause of and high percentage of opioid related deaths is due too and caused by poisonous FENTANYL
from the street.
The DEA and others are punishing the wrong people for a problem that has nothing to do with legitimate pain management patients and for a war they can’t win!
It’s like blaming a diabetic for having to use INSULIN to manage their diabetes.
Pain patients DO NOT SELL their medication. It’s too important and valuable to them to do that and they desperately need it for the management of their own health and wellbeing.
These are “made up” stories which have nothing at all to do with the FACTS.
Granted, there was a time years ago when OXYCOTIN was being abused by doctors and people who weren’t legitimate, severe pain management patients.
However, those days are long gone. Additionally, the root cause of that problem was PHARMA through their inappropriate marketing schemes and lies about non addiction related problems.
So…….those days are gone, times have changed and it’s time to get current with what’s going on now and manage it fairly and appropriately. World War II is over. We don’t keep fighting it!!!!