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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Aug 9 10:34pm | Replies (35)Comment receiving replies
The government has misled the people about opiates too. The fact is most people who take them for legitimate reasons do not become addicts. Most of the opioid deaths are not nor were they from prescriptions but from cartel supplies or mixing them with other drugs, they don't tell you that. They've intimidated Drs into prescribing what are dangerous drugs that cause what is really irreversible brain damage! You can bet sooner or later the lawsuits will be over the permanent damage caused by antipsychotics and Gabapentin prescribed for pain, exhaustion and other things they were never meant to treat! All it takes is just 12 days of use to cause brain damage. It's despicable! People did well on opiates and benzos, they were able to live their lives, the government has decided we no longer have the right to quality of life. We all need to contact law makers and let them know how cruel, inhumane they've made getting healthcare in this country! And it needs to stop! I do regularly. Patients should research for themselves what they're taking and take responsibility in how they take it! What's next regulating what foods we get based on weight? It will be if we don't start standing up and fighting back.
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You have made some excellent points that I agree with but “ pill mills” do exist in certain towns in this country that do tremendous harm to people. Doctors in those towns should have their licenses taken away so they can never practice medicine again.
As far as opioids I am amazed that someone prescribed them for pain can take them responsibly and stop when they are no longer in pain and others continue to take them because they enjoy getting high. I think it is an individual thing because there are people with addictive personalities. If they can’t get opioids they find themselves taking heroin because it is cheaper and easier to find. I don’t know why some people can drink alcohol socially their entire lives and others become alcoholics. We tried prohibition banning the sale of all alcohol in this country and we saw how that turned out. We thought pricing a pack of cigarettes at ever increasing prices would put an end to smoking in this country and yet approximately 18% of people still smoke.
I just think certain people have addictive personalities.
I have taken opioids when I am in legitimate pain and stop the moment the pain stops.
I take benzodiazepines as part of a responsible treatment for anxiety and depression and don’t ever increase my dosage and yet some get high and can’t control their usage.
You mention gabapentine and I have been described it for depression and anxiety and found it did absolutely nothing to relieve my symptoms. Yet this drug is still around and prescribed off label for so many things.
Long story short listen to your PCP doctor and if they practice medicine responsibly they will prescribe medication the way it should be used. Unfortunately there are bad actors in the medical profession just like any profession. Ironically drug use among doctors is a tremendous problem in this country.
I don’t pretend to know the answer but government overreach is definitely not the answer.
Good luck to everyone.