manama
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Thats what i said.People who truly have chronic pain aren’t typically going to abuse them.
The opioid epidemic came about because the CDC doesn’t differentiate between overdoses/deaths caused by illegal street narcotics like heroin, Chinese-made illicit Fentanyl VS. legitimate, doctor-prescribed analgesics that are taken as prescribed, under a doctor’s care.
Two completely different scenarios & users and yet, the death rates & overdoses come almost exclusively from NON-chronic pain patients who are using street drugs like heroin recreationally, but the statistics don’t differentiate or reflect that.... they are lumped together as one single statistic, making it appear that pain patients with legally prescribed opioids who ARE following their doctor’s orders, and ARE compliant in using their medications properly (which can be proven by all the rules patients must follow in their pain contract just to remain a patient & receive treatment like: must use one pharmacy, can only receive pain meds from one doctor, pill counts, random urine screens, etc.)
So the legit chronic pain patients who ARE following their doctor’s orders are getting penalized by the addicts that use recreationally .
https://thewaronchronicpainpatients.com/
Doctors can't do shit for this because they aren't the ones making the laws and the ones making the laws are doing a bad job which forces the doctors to either not prescribe painkillers or do it in smaller doses.