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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
This whole thing is no more than a money grubbing farce.
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I'm going to have to say you are only half right.
The money grubbing farce was perpetrated by the makers of Oxycodone with a fraudulent marketing campaign claiming their product wasn't as additive as everyone else's.
Doctors handing it out like candy certainly didn't help - how many samples would you like? No length or limit to the amount one can prescribe.
Then we have the bad science imported from Canada of combing categories to fabricate an epidemic.
To what end of why this was done I do not know.
How this is money grubbing unless you are selling stocks in rehabilitation centers or franchising them is a mystery to me.
It is what it is, no need to keep pendulum pushing, that's how shat like this gets started in the first place.
People in pain are not getting the meds they need.
This needs to be fixed.
Junkies out there hooked on perception meds, this too needs to be fixed.
It is not one or the other, it is both.
I do not fully understand the Canadian health profession link (
via Andrew Kolodny and David Juurlink), and do not see why being addicted to pain fillers is of importance if your are going to die from cancer anyway. Hey, cancer is painful, go out with a smile I say.
Dec 2016
Addressing the limitations of the CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic noncancer pain
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5135486/
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The excessive use of opioids for chronic noncancer pain represents a serious public health problem in Canada, and health care regulators face considerable pressure to adopt stricter policies to curb prescribing practices. In March 2016, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a guideline for prescribing of opioids for chronic pain.1 Because it raises many cautions regarding opioid prescribing, and if followed would undoubtedly reduce opioid prescribing and related harms in Canada, many regulators and commentators have welcomed the guideline. However, it does have important limitations.
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Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) says they have problems up north too.
Overview of national data on opioid-related harms and deaths
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/problematic-prescription-drug-use/opioids/data-surveillance-research/harms-deaths.html
Defining a common denominator would go a long way to tagging the problems.