Yes, I deleted my comment after I saw an article with the info that he'd been seeing the doctor, who had cut off his pain meds.
Physicians really need to get serious about NOT prescribing powerfully addictive opioids. They are just not a solution for pain, except in people who are actively dying, e.g. from cancer with excruciating bone or other pain, and in hospitals for people who are being monitored after major surgery and/or trauma that really involves exceptional amounts of pain.
Handing this poison out routinely should be a crime, and prescriptions for out-of-hospital use should be rare and require more than one physician to sign off on the prescription (one who is specialized in the area related to the cause of the pain, e.g. orthopedics, oncology, and the other a general practitioner or pain specialist). A patient claiming "it really hurts bad" should not be enough to get a prescription for this stuff.
Bullshit the reality is that a small minority get hooked and because of that the rest us have to suffer. Opioids have helped SO MANY PEOPLE. All we hear about though are the minority that it hurts.
Here you go. It was much earlier on.
Yes, I deleted my comment after I saw an article with the info that he'd been seeing the doctor, who had cut off his pain meds.
Physicians really need to get serious about NOT prescribing powerfully addictive opioids. They are just not a solution for pain, except in people who are actively dying, e.g. from cancer with excruciating bone or other pain, and in hospitals for people who are being monitored after major surgery and/or trauma that really involves exceptional amounts of pain.
Handing this poison out routinely should be a crime, and prescriptions for out-of-hospital use should be rare and require more than one physician to sign off on the prescription (one who is specialized in the area related to the cause of the pain, e.g. orthopedics, oncology, and the other a general practitioner or pain specialist). A patient claiming "it really hurts bad" should not be enough to get a prescription for this stuff.
200 mg ibuprofen should do the trick
Bullshit the reality is that a small minority get hooked and because of that the rest us have to suffer. Opioids have helped SO MANY PEOPLE. All we hear about though are the minority that it hurts.