I think many companies got scared after big tobacco got sued and they began to buy off politicians and write laws to protect themselves. Ex. the fast food industries have done this.
What does that have to do with skyrocketing overdose after the year 2010 where ever year it goes up and up.
RitterSport:
Agreed with this, for regular pain. There’s no reason to prescribe heroin for a broken ankle, and I wasn’t in pain anyway. There’s really no reason to prescribe it for wisdom teeth. My oldest’s teeth were impacted and got infected, and she tried one pill because she was having trouble sleeping. I’m sure Advil would have at least helped, without the downside risks.
Now, for really serious pain like Buck ’s wife or obbn , it’s a different story. And, we should all be on the same side here because if the opioid epidemic continues, those guys may be screwed.
If you actually care, you might want to stop referring to doctor-prescribed hydrocodone/APAP pills as “heroin,” which only helps fuel the hysteria that will lead to their screwing.
Tee
August 5, 2017, 2:19am
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First a small quote from Ann Hedonia’s Minnpost link:
And then: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/10/how-an-abuse-deterrent-drug-created-the-heroin-epidemic/?utm_term=.93b2fd4a9e50
2010 seems to be the point when waves of people began switching from legal to illegal drugs, and illegal drugs cause more ODs.
Then there is your helpful health insurance company:
Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers
At a time when the United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are limiting access to pain medications that carry a lower risk of addiction or dependence, even as they provide comparatively easy access to generic opioid medications.
The reason, experts say: Opioid drugs are generally cheap while safer alternatives are often more expensive…
ProPublica and The New York Times analyzed Medicare prescription drug plans covering 35.7 million people in the second quarter of this year. Only one-third of the people covered, for example, had any access to Butrans, a painkilling skin patch that contains a less-risky opioid, buprenorphine. And every drug plan that covered lidocaine patches, which are not addictive but cost more than other generic pain drugs, required that patients get prior approval for them.
In contrast, almost every plan covered common opioids and very few required any prior approval.
The insurers have also erected more hurdles to approving addiction treatments than for the addictive substances themselves, the analysis found.
So in other words pain killer abuse was going up every year and lots and lots people abusing pain killers so called pain mills!! Than in 2010 the government started going after the doctors giving pain meds out like candy. And people turn to getting pain meds of the street and overdosing is now skyrocketing.
So in other words have large part of society hooked on pain meds but alive or large part going underground and getting pain meds of the street and overdosing.
At least a wee bit less heroin is headed to Ohio.
This problem will not go away to some thing is done about Fentanyl.
It is Fentanyl that is causing all these drug overdose.
Yes but it is Fentanyl being cut in with these other drugs.
No, it’s illegally produced Fentanyl. The legit Rx is not what’s winding up in the street drug supply.
From here.
Licit fentanyl is diverted via theft, fraudulent prescriptions,