Like we don't have enough restrictions. OMG! It's obvious to me that whoever these people are they must not suffer from, not know or have family who are, chronic pain sufferers. I feel that if people that feel the need to comment on a subject, they really need to know what they're talking about!!
I am a chronic pain patient and so is one my brothers. We have really suffered from the restrictions they already have on this. And I don't know about other disabled people but my brother and I live on a fixed income and can barely afford the medicines, the cost of transportation and doctor's office visits. What can someone in our case do? It's too bad we can't make them wear a clothespin on a finger for 24 hours and not be able to remove it and can only take a couple of aspirin or tylenol. Then they'll suffer only about a 10th of the kind of pain that we do, that is unrelenting and almost unmanageable without help from the pain meds.
Sorry for being so long-winded but sometimes I have to rant and rave and thankfully, Karen has provided a means to do so.
Thank you all and may God bless and keep,
Yours truly,
Sarah E. Adams
(A Georgia resident)
I am glad that it did not pass, I have been taking Hydrocodon for years for my fibro and now it is a pain in my butt due to having to get a script called in every 10 days because my insurance will only pay for so many at a time. Then at the end of every 75 days I end up having to wait for my new script and being in pain because they have a count limit. Even though I have been taking this med for so long and need it, they (being the government) act as if everyone is abusing this medication and it makes it so hard on the ones of us who really need it!
I have to agree with much of what has been said. I can not figure out where it is so easy to obtain to get these medications. I have to jump through hoops. I have endured a dressing down from a doctor for having a prescription for vicodin.
These rules punish the honest and do little to curb the illicit drug trade.
Reta
The politics and pride of the government is the main driving force behind the restrictions that are creating such problems for real pain patients like me. All this seemed to get rolling when the children of people with powerful contacts started dying from oxycontin. The kids who discovered these drugs would become addicted, get sent to beautiful resorts doubling as treatment centers, and come home all fixed. Then the day comes when the these former addicts decide they can use safely, try to start with the same dosage used right before quitting(because that is how you get a real buzz), and end up overdosing.
Congress is outraged that these problems are reaching the into the suburbs and has an overreaction that ends up hurting us chronic pain patients without any real impact on illegal activity. Then, the DEA has a nice distraction diverting attention away from the massive failure known as "The War on Drugs" which has stopped a fraction of the percentage of drugs entering our borders illegally.
The DEA goes around bullying and threatening doctors and pharmacists who genuinely would like to help the chronic pain patients, but not at the expense of being accused of illegal activities.
Clearly, I took some poetic license and generalized a bit, but the current political trend is still growing and we(chronic pain patients) will continue to find it mare and more difficult finding medical professionals willing to role the dice and help us.
Thank you so much for posting it and all you do..From what I read in your article it says the House shot down the bill? Is that right? So will Norco 5 325 remain a class 3 and nothing new will change? I am just trying to clear this up because I have to take it on a regular basis and I have several refills on hold at Pharmacy,will they remain valid for me to get? Thank you so much
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I get so MAD when I hear a doctor . (olodny said he had treated many patients who became addicted to hydrocodone products in their late teens and early 20s and were now taking 20 to 30 tablets a day)he prescribed opiates to teens who became addicts ! First why prescribing such a drug to young people ? Is it not understood that these are the last line of meds for pain ?
It is so easy to find a culprit . It's like the one who wrote that old people are making a living out of their prescriptions .....Hey ! I stand on the corner of the street with my stand and a hand written sign "Pills for all ailments for sale. I have to pay my rent"
I am all for strict measures when it comes to opiates but please don't let those who need them kill themselves. I know that it happens because it is so hard for a legitimate chronic pain sufferer to have decent pain meds. They Rx'ed NSAID's who kills ..How many people a year ? Tue, they are non productive sick old people a charge for society, better rid of them in a human way......
I am curious to know how many of these legitimates prescriptions end up on the street. For a while now I have to call in my refills a day or two before the date, but not before so I am 2 days late on my prescription, my dr arranged with the pharmacy so I have few days extra, believe me I won't sell those, I keep them for rainy days ( days where the shortage happens because it did !)
If the govs.stop production of all opiates the addicts will find something else.
my mother and hers before had the same health problem then I and no medication to help them. My mother committed suicide by stopping to eat and drink and stop all her life sustaining medication because she was at the end of her rope. So when I read about how easy it is for addict to get drugs I wonder where they get them who really profit? Chronic pain sufferers are not the one to look at and not the ones to punish for those who abuse.
Marie.
It makes me weep to read this letter - who would sell their pain meds if they truly needed them???? I would rather go hungry than sell my opoids!!! How can anyone really 'stand on the corner selling their meds' when they truly need these meds for their pain. I am sick to death to hear these complaints of 'addicted' people who will stand on street corners selling their pills for their money for something they actually need to control their own pain. How sick is this!!!!!
Please explain this to me - it's inexplainable!!! God!! can no one understand the reality of those of us how have no other recourse to taking opoids, to control a pain that is absolutely unavoidable, uncontrollable, and would most likeable resort to killing oneself for relief. It is so easy for beaurocrats who have never had anything worse than a head ache to make such an 'easy' decision affecting those of us who are willing to killing themselves for some pain relief!!!