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Can anyone explain why opioids are still being sold and prescribed?
Perdue deserves to be punished. Opioids are a public health crisis when abused. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have legitimate uses.
Can anyone explain why opioids are still being sold and prescribed?
Fentanyl is used in epidurals, for one.
Can anyone explain why opioids are still being sold and prescribed?
There are people who still have legitimate need for pain medication
If you are obese because you eat too much and your knees hurt, the solution is not an opioid. The whole discourse about pain being a condition that must be addressed is nefarious. Except in some pretty rare case (like terminal illness), pain is a symptom for which the healthcare organizations must find the root cause of and treat properly. Using expedient like opioids is a recipe for failure and a problem of that only the medical community can address. Serious introspection for those in charge of healthcare system in the US (and many other countries) is necessary.
Also, serious failures of the FDA for labeling opioids as not addictive and putting the breaks on fixing it for years.
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There are people who still have legitimate need for pain medication
But what are the the criteria to decide legitimacy of those needs? Pain is a symptom. It is your body signaling a problem. Indeed, sometimes, there are no solution to those problems but I doubt that all those who got prescribed opioids and got addicted didn't have an underlying solvable problem. If you are obese because you eat too much and your knees hurt, the solution is not an opioid. The whole discourse about pai…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are people who still have legitimate need for pain medication
But what are the the criteria to decide legitimacy of those needs? Pain is a symptom. It is your body signaling a problem. Indeed, sometimes, there are no solution to those problems but I doubt that all those who got prescribed opioids and got addicted didn't have an underlying solvable problem. If you are obese because you eat too much and your knees hurt, the solution is not an opioid. The whole discourse about pai…
For those that haven't watched them yet, there are 3 John Oliver segments on the subject that will back up the "Good." statement:
Opioids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o
Opioids II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94U
Opioids III (this one focuses 100% on the Sacklers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCaIhfETsM
Can anyone explain why opioids are still being sold and prescribed?
The problem was never that they don't work the problem was that they're addictive . So since they do work this means it remains appropriate to prescribe them, it just isn't appropriate to give them to everybody to pop one every day before work and say it's "non-addictive". Drugs that work but have a terrible reputation are almost always still available. For example Thalidomide works, but it causes birth defects. Well…
However, Purdue Pharma's claim to fame with opioids was that their time release formulation was not addictive, so unlike traditional opioids these could be safely used on a daily basis.
Obviously, this claim was fraudulent.
Opioids still have their place, for treating terminal cancer patients, for instance. Short term use after a catastrophic event is still warranted.
Doctors prescribe drug -> pharmacy dispenses drug -> pharmacy orders from manufacturer. All I hear about is pharmacies and manufacturers getting sued, but why not doctors? Why do they seem to get off the hook when they are the main cause. Sure, Perdue marketed it to doctors (and I don't even see a way that pharmacies were responsible at all), but "I was manipulated by marketing" isn't a convincing defense from an exp…
Doctors prescribe drug -> pharmacy dispenses drug -> pharmacy orders from manufacturer. All I hear about is pharmacies and manufacturers getting sued, but why not doctors? Why do they seem to get off the hook when they are the main cause. Sure, Perdue marketed it to doctors (and I don't even see a way that pharmacies were responsible at all), but "I was manipulated by marketing" isn't a convincing defense from an exp…