Critics Say Hospitals Fuel Overprescription of Painkillers

By MATTHEW PERRONE | April 19, 2016

  • April 20, 2016 at 10:59 am
    Stush says:
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    My doctors, all of them since 1992, have always been unwilling to prescribe opioids for my back and instead have insisted that I have surgery first, and “earn my stripes”, before they would do so. It’s comes down to money to resolve my sciatica and spinal stenosis. I wish I knew a doctor like the ones that are alleged to be causing this crisis. I guess it just couldn’t be due to the bad choices made by ill informed people who didn’t learn the lessons I did as a youth, that drugs could be dangerous…maybe a little education helped? Now law enforcement, ever helpful with a solution, is pushing everyone to employ a sledge hammer to kill a gnat, folks with a legitimate condition are lumped together with the real culprits so that anyone who complains about pain is viewed as just trying to beat the system. Once I went for a refill, and the office manager all but “accused” me of being a possible conduit for black market drugs, just because I had a prescription for a schedule III drug (now schedule II)? While I continue to suffer and have to scrounge for any relief myself, the “solution” is driving folks to the very black market they are trying to shut down. Politics demands not just an answer but a showing that we have a comprehensive approach, that we are doing SOMETHING big, instead of examining how all these nice folks and wonderful doctors have all conspired to subvert medicine in the U.S. Anyone wonder why this is not a big problem for other countries? Could it be the very political way we do things? no common sense in the USA?



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