Big Pharma's Lockdown On Legitimate Chronic Pain Patients (Page 78)
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Is narcotic pain medicine becoming a thing of the past?

Why are doctors across America phasing out the practice of prescribing effective pain medication?

Will big pharmaceutical companies ever truly understand what it's like to face the other side of the coin?

Lately there's been a musty scent in the air surrounding the use of prescribed narcotic pain medication. Many doctors appear to be running scared as the DEA scours through fields of medical records, inspecting prescribing pads like a mouse scavenges for food in a dimly lit cellar.

Should the day come when doctors recommend Ibuprofen to a feeble man who's been involved in a terrible car accident (breaking several bones / requiring extensive surgery), is this doctor at risk of malpractice when there are more effective options available that they choose not to pick, out of fear? Fear of what? Doing the right thing? No, I don't think this is the reason... Somewhere along the line, in the not too distant past, doctors were loosely prescribing narcotic pain medication as if it would never go out of style. Nowadays, the harsh penalty of potentially losing their license for writing any unknown number of opiate prescriptions over so many calendar days or some other form of strict criteria, has been enough to prevent many physicians from taking even subtle "risks" with patients who are expressing obvious signs of pain and discomfort.

The unfortunately unique problem with pain is that it's not a physical object and in order for others to detect it, they'd have to rely solely on the backbone of our body language using their intuition - something that's gone missing in western practice. If more doctors took the time and really got to know their patients front to back, then they will be their own best judge of deciding what the right thing to do is, regardless of what the DEA thinks about their decision or what their drug representative wants out of the deal. Sadly, until patients are put before profits, the foundation of America's healthcare system remains in jeopardy like an iceberg affected by global warming.

While I believe that the vast majority of human beings in their right mind would choose to do the right thing, we must all work together to become the change we wish to see within every aspect of our lives; and knowing that by doing so, it will shine light on those crossing our path that need it most.

In the meantime, some patients may have to find another way to manage their pain without putting their life or health at risk. Others are turning to natural alternatives such as kratom, cannabis, turmeric and/or implementing various lifestyle changes into their daily regime... But the key is to never give up hope.

What will you do?

Warm regards to all who face life's challenges head on.

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Yeah. They can't stop the Heroin, Fentanyl and Carfentynyl. So let's pick on the pain community and make them suffer!! Without meds I suffer. But I can walk out my door and buy Heroin!! Which is NOT going to happen. What now!!

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I agree with you. I broke my hip when I was twenty four and am now seventy. I have had five surgeries on my hip including two artificial hips. My pain has been almost unbearable at times and the pain medicine kept me going. I don't know what t future holds for those of us who really need narcotics but I feel like a criminal when I get my prescription filled.
I am now taking three 8mg Subutex a day and it does help but not like the oxicodone I was taking.
I have heard that it is harder to get off of these and it frightens me because withdrawal is a horrible experience. Why can't they make something that will help that isnt addictive?
Having to live with pain is bad enough and if we can't get pain releif, I don't know what will happen.
I think doctors should ban together and fight this thing. Without them we would all be in trouble.
There are god doctors and bad doctors just like in every walk of life. The government needs to let the doctors treat their patients and do their own job. They can't catch the real culprits so they pick one ones who are most vulnerable so they can look like they are doing their job. Any comments?

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You can thank Johny Knoxville and his documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia for the crackdown on opioids in 2010. Mr Knoxville made fun of a family abusing & selling opioids along with marijuana & alcohol. This falls on him for ppl that are truly in pain and can't get the medicine needed for chronic pain. If you haven't seen it, you should. Thanks to Johny Knoxville, a known drug abuser made things hard on ppl that have needed pain medicine for accidents, cancer, birth defects, etc...

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This is a 3 issue problem. The first obvious issue is the faker, the people that cry wolf about their pain when really they just wanna feel high and find the greedy doctor that just takes the money and hands out either drugs or scripts... the failure of the justice system to hand out harsh enough penalties to these people to curb the activity let it blow up the practice like a cloud engulfing everything in sight - (if these doctors were given jail time of that equivalent to most other drug dealers this would have been curbed years ago)....

The fda also is a contributing factor with the 20% rule which allows generic drugs a 20% variance in the effective narcotic that is in the medications prescribed say you get 80mg oxycontin this means that the range of opioid content can range from 64mg to 96mg.... that is a 32 mg swing so if you get the higher 96 content med the drug store changes suppliers to the 64s the normal patient will take more to make up the difference because the dr can not increase the number as they used to, the patient runs short but tries riding it out, but it happens over and over so now the patient is listed as an abuser, thus they get ridiculed and start looking on the street. But now the drug store switches back to the 96s and the patient has found some street drugs and takes multiple 96s thinking they are 64s and since they've been in pain now with no relief and are stressed out from ridicule and being treated like a criminal (not because they were but because the fda allowed the 20% variance) and they just want complete relief, they add some street drug with the two 96s they took and end up as an od in the hospital again multiplying the problem.

Then you have the Gestapo pharmacist that treat pain patients like criminals... patients that follow the rules only use 1 dr and dr dates refill and it is that date and the insurance company says yes it's time to refill but pharmacist refuses to fill the script even tho you been filling it they every month... this then creates stress which increases the effects of the pain thus possibly leading to some of the previously mentioned things to happen... pharmacist should keep eye on some things but should not refuse filling script if they think something is an issue they should contact the dr and discuss it. The pharmacist has computer listing of each narcotic prescription filled for each patient at their finger tips with the govt required data base... I guess i will stop here, seems i got a bit involved but i have been going thru this for over 15 years and tho i have not abused my meds and refused med increases i can see how things can happen... pain is the circuit breaker of the body if you block it to much you will burn out your body just like if you block the circuit breaker in your house you could burn your house down.

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The federal government is taking the place of your doctor. They are doing this to so many people what they don't realize that this is creating a black market for more dangerous synthetic pain killers that are causing more deaths. As far this goes they need to stay out of my drs practice of medicine.

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I agree with you completely and that is my fear. I am due for a refill in a few days and am afraid that my insurance company will reject it or put me on it for 5 days then that's it. Did you go thru withdrawal? I hope you are ok, please let us know what's going on now, have you tried to fight it?

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I was hurt in a boating cc some 40 years ago. For about the last 20 years I've been seeing one pain Dr. & taking Oxycodone 30 mg. Well all of the sudden the Dr. just flat shut me off & stopped seeing me. I have talked with several other patients & it seems it's happening to lots & lots of people... I've seen the news shows & I can understand why they're doing this!!!! My question is, what are we (the people that take them correctly like myself) suppose to do? Cant their blood be checked for this & if you DON'T PASS you're OUT, no more? That's what I think should happen! Taking meds that WORK & make your life in general livable from people that Do NOT abuse them is just inhumane. I went from a productive active person (bicycle rider long distance) to being bed bound. I've gained over 100 Lbs. Can't work now, nonproductive 60 year old man now... WHAT ARE WE TO DO? Lay here in massive pain & wait to die? Something needs to be done!!!!

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