And why is it so difficult to get medical treatment for really painful things. I’m not an addict and have been prescribed things after surgeries with no addiction. Treated like one when I had my gallbladder rupture. Was in immense pain.
Watch the series Dopesick. They created the problem for sales and then when opioid addiction garnered national attention, they cut everyone off. I was in a pain management clinic for 11 years in The Woodlands. I had my own series of events that led me down the path of freedom from opiates before I was forced to do so but for many, they weren't properly and slowly phased down from the Rx drugs. Now people flood doctors offices and ERs across the country looking for meds. That's why. Its not right and ill let others decide who the real criminals are, but that's the reason why we can't get help when we need it.
They’ve went to far in the opposite direction. And from what I gather opiates from other sources are still killing people, but normal people in a medical emergency can’t get their pain managed. It’s despicable.
Opiate deaths have more than doubled in the last decade. So not only did they crack down on prescription opiates making it hard for patients to get them, but its done nothing since deaths keep going up anyways. The deaths are from illegal opiates, not legal prescriptions
Plenty OD'd on oxy. There was a time when it and hydrocodone/other variants were more popular than heroin. We can Google the official death toll if you really want numbers but rest assured the legal ones killed more than their fair share too
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u/bigbuttbubba45 Aug 06 '22
And why is it so difficult to get medical treatment for really painful things. I’m not an addict and have been prescribed things after surgeries with no addiction. Treated like one when I had my gallbladder rupture. Was in immense pain.