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Originally Posted by Tobra
I shudder to think how many people with chronic pain issues have committed suicide in the last 5 years. I wonder what percentage of the suicides by our veterans are due to denial of medications.
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Missed this part earlier. Spot on I'd say. The problem with veteran and active duty medical treatment is that it is institutionalized. Read my other post above. The docs on the treatment end are fed a 'best practices' idea or scheme from the higher echelon of management/chain of command and they follow it. It doesn't matter if it works or not for the individual patient, it is simply a treatment plan across the entire organization for a specific thing such as pain.
Opioids bad, get them off of it; doc says ok and does it. Or, Tramadol is not an opioid so use it; doc says ok and does it. Use anti-depressants 'off label' for pain; doc says ok.