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Now that medical pot is a legal prescription for pain in many states abuse is running wild.
The words pot or marijuana do not appear in this story if I'm correct. It's our corporate pharma prescription drugs that this article reports about. Duh!
But I guarantee nobody is ending up in the hospital for pot you idiot! No lethal dose, nobody has ever been reported to have died from it either. Hmmm is this article sending a real message?
BTW my message above was directed towards bighorn!
Since there is no addiction potential for marijuana you are ill informed. American society is very mentally fragile. Everybody has something there is a large number of people trying to game the system at any given time with diagnosis of depression, anxiety, Post traumatic stress disorder, Fibromyalgia and back pain. Don't get me wrong there are real people with these problems and I am not trying to minimize those people but there are a lot of hypochondriacs as well
DUHH! Everybody knows that marijuana is the safest non-addicting painkiller out there but our beloved and righteous FDA doesn't want it in our health system. This is because 1)there is no way for them to have complete control over it since anybody would be able to grow it if it became legal and 2)because pharmacists can make a bunch of money giving us addicting pills.
Well - DUH!
Florida has become "the promise land" for perscription drug addicts. People from all over the country travel to Florida every month to see the criminal doctors who give them a diagnosis and perscription on the spot, mostly in Miami. These pharmacuticles are the new crack, and these doctors are the new Nino's. These doctors have expensive leather couches in thier waiting rooms, pool tables, you can bring open beer to the office while you wait. It's disgusting. Of about 50 freinds that I have, 45 of them travel to Miami and are hooked on perscription drugs and are becoming mentally retarded by them, which is of course, the agenda of the pharmacuticle companies. And because the doctors give far to much for a perscription, the patients can come home and sell the extra pills, encouraging illegal trade. Most of my freinds are out of work, and the sale of painkillers is thier main income. Painkillers dont kill pain, they kill your brain giving the illusion of killing the pain. Anti-depressants dont stop depression, they cause suicidal thoughts, just listen to the commercials. Doctors and big pharma here definitly need to be investigated.
Good luck...I agree...it's not just Miami, it's all over Florida, even in the small towns on the West Coast. The medical profession is at fault....they don't want to find out what is wrong with a person, they just prescribe a pain killer, sleeping pill, or anti depressant, knowing that the patient will become addicted and come back for more. I'm sure they are in collusion with the drug companies to push these dangerous prescriptions. We have friends that are zombies from these drugs.
Agreed. How did you escape, "Good Luck", when almost all of your friends were falling to this? What made the difference?
It is always the doctor fault!!! Actually this is George bush's fault they came out with an initiative the pain in the 5th vital sign and the concept that no one should ever need to feel any pain. If you have pain it should be treated right away this was pushed by the bush government in collusion with the manufacturers of Oxycontin and Duragesic and other good drugs
This lead to a lot of people being addicted to pain medicine, another mess that needs to be cleaned up by someone else.
Regarding Pain as the 5th Vital sign. I agree with this assessment whole-heartedly. I don't know about the Bush collusion part, but I do know that the time-frame this data was gathered from exactly parallel the implementation of the "Pain as the 5th Vital Sign" programs across hospitals through-out the country....
ABSOLUTELY Phusi and DocRx...I'm an RN and I have seen this whole philosophy come full circle...I, too, am not sure about it being Bush's fault, but when we get surveyed, our effective pain control methods are scrutinized. We were instructed that pain is subjective and whatever your patient says it is. So, now the patients are blaming the providers who knew all along this philosophy did not apply in 100% of cases but were not given the opportunity to use their own CLINICAL JUDGMENT. We can tell if someone is in pain with OBJECTIVE signs a patient cannot control...i.e vital signs, physiologic signs, guarding...This whole issue is just a symptom of how we handle everything in healthcare...extremes...The pendulum swings wildly from side-to-side but never seems to land in the middle of common sense and evidence-based practice. Pain control, along with most provider-patient issues, should be a collaborative effort, never a one-sided decision.
Have you heard of a pot user starting a fight? If pot was legalized it would put the pharm companies out of business.
Strongly agree!
Wonder when KeyOrion is gonna pipe up on this article with his anti pot and pro big pharma garbage?
I wasn't, but then I saw that my name was used over a year later...
I'm not pro big Pharmacy. I'm not pro marijuana. I just really don't trust people that abuse anything deemed "medicinal".
No one wants to try to work on themselves anymore but instead they run to the doc for a quick fix. A pill isn't going to take your problems away people. I have been depressed and have wanted to ask the doc for something but I try to work it out in other ways and so far it has worked. I know that there are people out there who aren't so lucky and have to have something for their pain or depression but it should be a last resort.
I think that this what big pharma wants, everyone addicted to their drugs. That way, they make a whole slug of money.
Be careful, there are people that need meds to have any quality of life. My sis is disabled due to an injury that she got at work as a health care provider. First she was put through hell by her doctor. He is a well renowned marin county doc still practicing. He treated her like crap, lost her xrays, accused her of med seeking, shared that with the medical community etc. When his stupid staff found her Xrays, he ordered her to surgery quick style, botched her 4rth level fusion in her neck and then continued to treat her badly. Then she had insurance agents following her all over town so that Marin General hospital did not have to settle. Finally she found a pain doc that would help her and he is not great either, her pain increases with age and he will not adjust her meds. The pain clinic and the other employees have been fab though. Her first doc put her on Oxycontin and fentynal, she was nuts and she could not afford it. Finally they found methadone. Cost effective and she is no longer in agony every day. The pain clinic has treated her whole person, five years of therapy, methadone and checking in once a month. Prior to the pain clinic, she was suicidal, today she has a quality of life and is a productive citizen. When writing articles like these please tell the whole picture. There are people that need these meds. Then we have the do gooders that would like to make pain killers illegal period.
Be careful, there are people that need meds to have any quality of life. My sis is disabled due to an injury that she got at work as a health care provider. First she was put through hell by her doctor. He is a well renowned marin county doc still practicing. He treated her like crap, lost her xrays, accused her of med seeking, shared that with the medical community etc. When his stupid staff found her Xrays, he ordered her to surgery quick style, botched her 4rth level fusion in her neck and then continued to treat her badly. Then she had insurance agents following her all over town so that Marin General hospital did not have to settle. Finally she found a pain doc that would help her and he is not great either, her pain increases with age and he will not adjust her meds. The pain clinic and the other employees have been fab though. Her first doc put her on Oxycontin and fentynal, she was nuts and she could not afford it. Finally they found methadone. Cost effective and she is no longer in agony every day. The pain clinic has treated her whole person, five years of therapy, methadone and checking in once a month. Prior to the pain clinic, she was suicidal, today she has a quality of life and is a productive citizen. When writing articles like these please tell the whole picture. There are people that need these meds. Then we have the do gooders that would like to make pain killers illegal period.
pain patients are the most challangeing in the universe of health care because addicts lie. they can't stop themselves from lieing