Yes, the opioid crisis is bad. I've lost family members to overdoses. That said I think we are now terribly overreacting. Twice in the last few months I've had family members get surgery, back and heart, and get sent home with nothing but Tylenol. The hospital has a new policy to not allow any of its doctors with privileges to write any narcotic pain medication prescriptions. The only pain opioid pain meds one can get is by IV when you are actually in the hospital but since insurance companies are always pushing for people to be kicked out of the hospital as soon as possible it leaves us in this strange new place where people are being treated in ways unthinkable long before Oxycontin was even a thing.
Which is really what bothers me. We aren't just rolling back the really problematic meds we are rolling back everything even the ones that were used largely without incident for decades before Purdue sent out armies of leggy drug reps in short skirts to push Oxy on everyone.
There must be better ways to attack this problem. I already know of at least one person who is avoiding getting surgery for an ongoing problem precisely because they are terrified of being booted out of the hospital in unbearable pain with no way to treat it.
What in the hell are we doing?
Which is really what bothers me. We aren't just rolling back the really problematic meds we are rolling back everything even the ones that were used largely without incident for decades before Purdue sent out armies of leggy drug reps in short skirts to push Oxy on everyone.
There must be better ways to attack this problem. I already know of at least one person who is avoiding getting surgery for an ongoing problem precisely because they are terrified of being booted out of the hospital in unbearable pain with no way to treat it.
What in the hell are we doing?
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