Opioids & U.s. Senate (Page 3)
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U.S. Senate has succumbed/conspired with health providers to practically eliminate severe or chronic pain med for the elderly. Some 16,800 deaths of young drug mixing punks & the cost of providing these meds; has caused the low level intelligence & greedy health providers to furiously lobby (bribe) the U. S. Senate to order a 40% decrease in severe/chronic meds for the elderly; not for young drug mixing "punks" because they will mix something else. It has been shown that the Senate members have been drunk or half drunk in decisions like this. Proof of the aforesaid? here it is: the Senate ignores 1.6 millions of deaths & or severe mutilations due to alcohol. Senators have never done heavy strenuous work that by the time you are 65/70 years old, everything hurts to a more or lesser degree. If the elderly & or severely injured/impaled were allowed to obtain these meds, even at a higher cost, they would be able to live somewhat normal lives & still be productive members of society. Solution: health providers should increase the charge to patients to cover costs and anyone under 60 years of age should be scrutinized thoroughly & no one should be allowed to take more than 3 or 4 10 MG per day. I have been taking 2 a day for 16 years & consider myself an expert on the subject. Anything more than 4 10 MG a day, would categorize you as an addict, according to all expert doctors on the subject.

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40 mg's of what, expert ? LMAO.. 40 mg's may work for you but not others. Everyone's pain is different and everyone may have different relief levels from pain meds. You can't put everyone in " one group " and expert the same outcome/benefit of pain relief. I've chosen to stay on the lowest strength opioid, Norco for last 4 1/2 years and refuse any stronger opioid meds. even when I was provided stronger for break-through pain following multiple shoulder surgeries. My case if one of a shoulder surgery gone WAY BAD resulting in chronic pain and have had 4 other surgeries without improvement. 50 mgs a day is where I set my limit, does not make my shoulder pain free by no means,, but makes it bearable and as the meds wear off the pain ends my day, everyday. RAISE THE COST, now that's a hell of a solution , so if people can't afford or insurance companies think charges are to much and deny, then people suffer in PAIN ? Elderly & people of all ages should be provided the best medical treatment, that being controlling their pain for some quality of life. Manufactures are all ready making a ton of money. Just had a Ortho Doc tell me last week the day is coming when no Doctors in California will be writing prescriptions for opioid meds. in the state in the next few years. By the way, I take 10mgs more than your mentioned limit of 40mgs, I a addict by your statement which couldn't be farther than the truth. Medical industry are forcing people to look outside of their hospital/ medical provider for pain relief and as a result people are dying . """" U. S. Senate to order a 40% decrease in severe/chronic meds for the elderly""""" Probably due to Medicare understanding chronic pain and approving opioid meds when everyone else acting like there is no need for opioids NOW. Enough.............

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I just cannot dial in on what exactly the problem is. We know that there has been a real terror driven campaign against opioid use--even for legitimate, legal, long term pain sufferers. This was started and fueled by the abusers of illegal street heroin, fentanyl, and other illegal substances. This does not even take into consideration the many criminals that steal their pain pills from relatives and pharmacies. The other day I read an article where a college student had overdosed from cocaine and the headline read "Promising College Student Gets Caught Up In Opioid Crisis". Overdosing on cocaine has nothing to do with opioids but this is what these hysterical and uninformed so called reporters write. I am now wondering if these law makers think that one of the ways to lower Social Security payouts is to make the seniors lives miserable and shorter. Just a thought. Until yesterday it never dawned on me that many Pharmacies are telling people that present scripts for pain medications that they are out or they will take some time to get the prescription filled because they do not want it known that they have these pain meds on hand because of the robberies of the Pharmacies. Some, I understand, has stopped stocking pain medications altogether to hopefully put a stop to the spree of armed robberies at the Pharmacies. I guess they feel that if it becomes known in the criminal community that a certain Pharmacy does not have the pain medications in stock there that the criminals will go elsewhere. It is like a bank robber going into a bank and not being able to get any money. They will find a better target and go there.

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Why should it be just elderly! Not all younger people are taking narcotics for the high! I’m now 58, but I’ve been on narcotics for a severe back condition for about 15 years and have never abused them! Being on narcotics kept me able to work full time, raise my family and be able to participate in life. Without them I would have ended up on Medicaid letting you and the rest of the taxpayers take care of me and my family. The bottom line is the Government doesn’t care about any of the chronic pain patients. They don’t know or care about the difference between dependence and addiction. Their goal is to do away with narcotics completely outside the hospital setting and if the rest of us want to commit suicide because of unrelieved pain it will make their job easier because those deaths will also be blamed on the opioid crisis and never talked about.

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Oh boy. The war on drugs need not include the elderly. Just that. The elderly have paid their dues as productive members of society. Bodies eventually break down. Out of respect, these older treasures of society should be cared for and secure as to their level of comfort. True, the punks WILL find a way to overdose. Their craving is the next, higher, high. For the seniors, they simply wish to enjoy the years they have left. That's all. It's a slap to their face to stick them in pain management and monitor their urine. They take their med as prescribed by their doctors, because, you know, the docs know best.

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